Waching daily Oct 29 2017

LATE LAST NIGHT THE REPUBLICANS IN THE SENATE VOTED

TO GIVE BANKS CREDIT CARD COMPANIES, EVEN COMPANIES LIKE

APPLE FAX BROAD IMMUNITY FROM LAWSUITS FROM PEOPLE LIKE

YOU BLOCKING A SEEM TO BE IN LIMITED ROLE THAT CAME OUT

OF THE CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU.

YOU MIGHT ASK WITH COMPANIES LIKE BANKS AND CREDIT CARD

COMPANIES AND ALL OF THAT WHAT YOU MEAN RESTORE THE RIGHT

TO SUE.

WHAT YOU GENERALLY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THANKS TO THE TERMS OF

SERVICE IS THROUGH ARBITRATION WHICH IS LIKE A LAWSUIT BUT

ALMOST ENTIRELY UNDER THE CONTROL OF THAT CORPORATION.

YOUR ABILITY TO BAND TOGETHER WITH OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN

WRONGED BY THE CORPORATION IS ELIMINATED IN THAT CASE AND

YOUR ABILITY TO GET SOMETHING FOR WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO

YOU IS EFFECTIVELY NIL.

WE WERE GOING TO HAVE THAT, BUT NOW WE DON'T THANKS TO

REPUBLICANS.

AND JUST FOR THE RECORD IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR DEFIANCE

AGAINST TRUMP AND HIS AGENDA ALL BUT TWO REPUBLICANS VOTED

TO REPEAL THE RULE.

LET'S BREAK THIS DOWN A COUPLE OF WAYS, TO YOUR LAST

POINT ABOUT HEROES OF THE RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT WING,

JEFF FLAKE WHERE ARE YOU?

I THOUGHT YOU WERE FIGHTING TRUMP.

CORKER WHERE ARE YOU?

IT GOES TO THE POINT OF THEY ARE LOOKING TO ROB YOU.

GUYS LIKE CORKER AND MCCAIN, THEY HAVE HEARD FROM PEOPLE

INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE AND SEEN IT WITH THEIR OWN EYES, THE GUY

IS A TOTAL BUFFOON AND COMPLETELY DANGEROUS.

AT ANY MOMENT HE COULD START A WAR AND EVEN JOHN MCCAIN.

LET'S GO BACK TO THIS ISSUE AND WHAT THIS IS.

LET ME BREAK DOWN FOR YOU THE GIGANTIC DIFFERENCE THAT

THIS MAKES.

WHEN THESE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, AND IT

APPLIES TO OTHER COMPANIES ALSO.

BECAUSE NOW EVERYTHING IS FORCED INTO ARBITRATION BECAUSE THE

SUPREME COURT IS ALSO CORPORATIST.

IT IS A LONG STORY I CAN GET INTO BUT ANYWAY ñ

THEY MADE THE DECISION IN 2011, 2013.

IN 2009 THERE ARE SOME CLASS-ACTION LAWSUITS OUT

THERE, BUT ESPECIALLY FOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS THEY

ARE NOW FAR MORE LIMITED.

BACK WHEN THEY EXISTED PEOPLE FOUND OUT THAT BANKS WERE

RIPPING YOU OFF ON OVERDRAFTS.

THEY DID THAT SYSTEMATICALLY AND TO THE TUNE OF BILLIONS OF

DOLLARS.

THEY WOULD JUST TAKE FROM YOU FIVE BUCKS AT A TIME, 20 BUCKS

AT A TIME.

THEY KNEW WAS WRONG BUT THEY DID IT ANYWAY.

IT IS GREAT THAT WE CAUGHT THEM ON IT.

WE WERE RIGHT AND THEY DID A CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT, PUT

DOWN A BUNCH OF PEOPLE TOGETHER AND SAID YOU DID IT TO ALL

OF US AND $1 BILLION WAS RETURNED TO CONSUMERS.

THE PEOPLE WHO WERE RIPPED OFF.

MORE SHOULD'VE BEEN RETURNED BUT THAT IS STILL GREAT, YOU

GOTTA BILLION BACK TO CONSUMERS WHO WERE LITERALLY ROBBED.

IT WAS DECIDED BY THE COURTS, THEY WERE ROBBED AND THEY

GOTTA BILLION DOLLARS BACK.

NOW CLASS-ACTION LAWSUITS ARE NOT ALLOWED FOR MOST OF THOSE

ISSUES SO THEY DID A TWO-YEAR STUDY IN ARBITRATION CLAIMS.

THE PROBLEM WITH ARBITRATION IS IT IS STACKED AGAINST YOU

IN TWO WAYS.

YOU CAN'T BAND TOGETHER WITH EVERYBODY SEE YOU CAN'T

AFFORD A LAWYER.

LET ALONE A DRAGGED OUT LONG LAWSUIT.

NUMBER TWO, THE LAWYERS USED IN ARBITRATION USUALLY WORK FOR

CORPORATIONS.

THEY ARE NOT BAD PEOPLE THAT YOU

ARE UNLIKELY TO HIRE THEM.

SO THAT IS ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL

PROBLEM.

SO WHAT HAPPENS?

IN THOSE TWO YEARS THEY WERE 78 ARBITRATION

CLAIMS THAT FOUND IN FAVOR OF THE CONSUMERS WHICH IS

PREPOSTEROUSLY LOW.

TO THE TUNE OF $400,000.

IN ONE CASE ALONE, THEY SAID WE DON'T LIKE CORPORATIONS, WE

WILL GIVE THEM MORE POWER.

BEFORE THAT YOU HAD $1 BILLION RETURN TO CONSUMERS.

AFTERWARDS $400,000 TO 78 CASES.

THIS IS HOW THEY REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH.

THIS ALLOWS FOR THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO

SYSTEMICALLY RIP YOU OFF AND GET AWAY WITH IT.

AND REPUBLICANS LOVE IT, THAT IS THEIR MAIN MODUS OPERANDI.

JUST

TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW BRAZEN THEY ARE ñ IF THIS

RULE HAD GONE INTO EFFECT AND YOU HAD WANTED TO TAKE SOME SORT

OF LEGAL ACTION YOU WOULD HAD A COUPLE OF ACTIONS.

YOU COULD GO THROUGH ARBITRATION OR DO A CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT.

THEY HAVE TAKEN AWAY ONE OF THOSE TWO THINGS AND THEIR

MESSAGING AS TO WHY IS TO INCREASE FREEDOM AND CHOICE.

THEY

ARE BRAZEN ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEY THINK IT DOESN'T MATTER.

I HOPE THE INTERNET HAS BEGUN THE FIX THAT BECAUSE NOW WE

ARE ON TO THEM AND AT LEAST YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU.

YOUR CHOICE, IF YOU LIKE BEING ROBBED BY YOUR BANK VOTE

REPUBLICAN.

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How some Atlanta students are getting extra help years after a massive cheating scandal - Duration: 9:19.

JUDY WOODRUFF: It was one of the biggest scandals to rock American schools.

Nearly 200 educators in Atlanta were accused of systematic cheating, including changing

answers on the state's standardized tests, in order to boost students' scores.

Atlanta is one of many districts to confront cheating, but this case was unique.

Educators faced criminal charges.

Ultimately, nine people were sentenced to prison.

Their appeals are just now beginning.

Special correspondent Lisa Stark of our partner Education Week takes a look at what's happened.

It's part of our weekly series Making the Grade.

DANA EVANS, Convicted in Cheating Scandal: It's been horrible.

LISA STARK: Dana Evans was one of the Atlanta educators convicted in the cheating scandal,

one of the largest in U.S. history.

MAN: There's no harder lesson than the one taught today.

JUDY WOODRUFF: The convictions came on the eighth day of jury deliberations.

MAN: Their crime was a conspiracy to fake test scores.

LISA STARK: The story has faded from the headlines, but not from the lives of those, like Evans,

still trying to clear their names.

Court appeals are just beginning.

DANA EVANS: I'm not who they said I was in court.

Dana Evans is not a cheater.

I'm not a person who would hurt children in any way.

LISA STARK: The investigation uncovered cheating at 44 schools, most of them elementary, 178

educators implicated, accused of inflating scores on standardized tests by erasing students'

answers and changing them from wrong to right.

So why did they do it?

At the time, testing was paramount, both under federal mandates and a hard-charging superintendent,

Beverly Hall, who set targets even higher than the feds.

Daniel Koretz is the author of "The Testing Charade."

DANIEL KORETZ, Harvard University: The teachers were under enormous pressure.

They were teaching in a low-achieving district.

They had very high targets to meet.

The targets were essentially made up out of whole cloth.

They were not things that teachers could meet by legitimate means.

LISA STARK: Also in Atlanta, raising scores could raise educators accolades and bonuses.

Not doing so could cost them their jobs.

In Evans' case, investigators found, as principal at Dobbs Elementary, she didn't cheat or encourage

it, but should have known it was going on.

She is still dumbfounded at her conviction and the contention that educators cheated

for money.

DANA EVANS: I got bonuses one year out of the four years that I was principal, and it

was $1,000.

And I gave more than $1,000 to Dobbs.

I paid for kids' uniforms, and I paid for people's rent and their gas bills.

And it's offensive that -- that I would cheat for $1,000.

LISA STARK: Cheating by educators has been reported in some 40 states, but Atlanta, a

largely African-American high-poverty district, was one of the only places where prosecutors

brought criminal charges, conspiracy, under Georgia's racketeering law, a law often used

against the mafia and drug dealers, not educators.

Ultimately, just a dozen Atlanta educators ended up before a jury.

Others pled or were let off the hook.

As for Superintendent Hall, she died of cancer before trial.

Eleven of the 12 in court were convicted.

JUDGE JERRY BAXTER, Fulton County Superior Court: All I want for many of these people

is just to take some responsibility.

But they have refused.

They have refused.

LISA STARK: Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter presided over the criminal case,

then angry, now semi-retired and reflective.

JUDGE JERRY BAXTER: I brought a bad chapter to a close, not me personally, but the whole

judicial apparatus.

LISA STARK: Baxter, who comes from a family of teachers -- both parents taught in Atlanta

public schools -- says he is comfortable with the verdict.

JUDGE JERRY BAXTER: In my mind, it was -- it's not a victimless thing, because these kids,

a lot of them were pushed on.

A lot of them couldn't read.

And they should have been held back, or they should have been given special resources.

So, I'm -- get a little bit worked up about it.

LISA STARK: It's hard to know the impact of the cheating scandal on the students.

A study by Georgia State University five years later found that students who may have been

affected were about a half-year behind their fellow students in reading and writing.

But researchers admitted it was difficult to know how much the cheating played a role.

The district has now started a program to help these students, 2,200 of them still enrolled

in Atlanta public schools, those who had multiple answers changed on tests they took way back

in 2009.

Do you even remember taking the tests in third grade?

NYKIRA ROSS, Student: I don't.

LISA STARK: You don't?

NYKIRA ROSS: I really don't.

LISA STARK: It was a long time ago.

NYKIRA ROSS: Right.

LISA STARK: Seniors Nykira Ross and Sheldon Garmon III are among those entitled to extra

tutoring, test prep and one-on-one support.

SHELDON GARMON III, Student: Based on my grades, I don't really need it.

LISA STARK: Some, like Garmon, are at the top of the class.

Others struggle, but all are eligible for extra help.

NYKIRA ROSS: There are people that come in and help you with your math or English or

science.

And they are really helpful.

LISA STARK: Each student also gets a support coach.

Is your coach checking in with you every day?

NYKIRA ROSS: I see her, yes, every day.

LISA STARK: Every day?

NYKIRA ROSS: Almost every day.

SHELDON GARMON III: Even when you don't see her, she knows where you are.

Sheldon, why are you in the gym?

You're supposed to be in math.

LISA STARK: This is the first sustained effort to help these students, now in its second

full year.

SHAWNNA HAYES-TAVARES, Mother: Certainly, the intention is good.

LISA STARK: Shawnna Hayes-Tavares is the mother of two children whose test answers were changed.

She says the program, which will cost $3.5 million this year, is still a work in progress,

and took too long to set up.

SHAWNNA HAYES-TAVARES: We wait six years even to start a program.

It's hard to be optimistic.

But, of course, I have to be, because we're talking about the lives of children.

LISA STARK: Do you think the district owes these students to offer them this help?

TIFFANY FRANKLIN, Atlanta Public Schools: I don't like to use the word owed.

But I'm glad that this program is in place.

If I was a parent and I had a child that was potentially impacted, I would utilize it.

LISA STARK: Tiffany Franklin oversees the effort.

There's no hard data yet to indicate whether the program is making a difference.

TIFFANY FRANKLIN: And success to us is that they graduate and that we help make sure that

when they graduate they have an option.

And that's what we do.

LISA STARK: But no one is help those who have may have dropped out because of the cheating

scandal.

District attorney Paul Howard, who prosecuted the case, pledged to set up a program for

them, but has not raised the money.

PAUL HOWARD, District Attorney: It's kind of a tough job, because it's not a real popular

cause.

But I think, as a community, we owe it to those kids to give them what they lost.

LISA STARK: Today, in Atlanta, exams still matter.

BILL CARITJ, Atlanta School District Administrator: We take accountability very seriously.

We take our test results very seriously.

LISA STARK: But district administrator Bill Caritj says tests are now just one measure

of achievement.

No bonuses are tied to scores, and nearly all students take exams on computers, making

widespread cheating more difficult.

BILL CARITJ: No one sees the test.

We don't see it.

Test coordinators don't see it.

The only ones who know what the tests look like are the people who built it.

LISA STARK: Georgia has also cut back on and revamped its required tests.

Nationwide, there's been a backlash against high-stakes testing.

That helped prompt a new federal law allowing states to reduce their emphasis on testing.

DANIEL KORETZ: Right now, tests dominate life in school day after day after day.

I think that will become a little less so under the new legislation.

LISA STARK: Dana Evans insists she never judged her teachers on exam results alone.

DANA EVANS: Because I knew that, in order to be a teacher, there's a lot that goes into

that, and it's not just about the end result of what a score is.

It's just one day of one child's life.

LISA STARK: Evans would love to work in education again, but figures that's unlikely, even if

she wins her appeal.

Meantime, at her old elementary school, there is still a banner touting test scores during

a year when cheating went on, an odd reminder of a time that most in Atlanta would like

to forget.

For the "PBS NewsHour" and Education Week, I'm Lisa Stark in Atlanta, Georgia.

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California housing shortage adds stress for now-homeless fire victims - Duration: 6:17.

HARI SREENIVASAN: It's been nearly two weeks since deadly wildfires broke out in Northern

California.

At least 42 people have died.

Fire officials hope to fully contain the most destructive fires by early next week.

Thousands of homes have been destroyed.

For many returning residents, there's the question of where to relocate or rebuild in

one of the country's most expensive housing markets.

Special correspondent Cat Wise has our report from Sonoma County.

CAT WISE: For the second time in the past 12 days, Santa Rosa construction worker Agustin

Aguilera and his family have had to move, with the few possessions they still have.

Several groups of friends have been sheltering the family since their small rental unit went

up in flames, one of more than 8,000 homes and structures around California's Wine Country

destroyed in the recent wildfires.

Aguilera, who has not had work or a paycheck since the fires started, says it was tough

to find a place to live in his $1,500 price range before.

Now he's worried he won't be able to compete in the new, more competitive rental market.

AGUSTIN AGUILERA, California: I think there's going to be a shortage in housing, because,

I mean, there are thousands of people there that got affected by these fires.

They were pretty high prices before the fires, and I think this is going to be even worse.

As of right now, I don't know what am I going to do.

CAT WISE: The Aguilera family's struggles to find housing in the wake of the fires is

a common story now throughout the region.

Here in Santa Rosa, the housing market, like in so many other Bay Area communities, was

hot before the fires.

Rental vacancy rates hovered around 1 percent and housing prices have been rising rapidly.

The wildfires destroyed a wide spectrum of the city's housing inventory, from low-income

mobile home parks, to middle-class ranches in Coffey Park, to multimillion-dollar mansions

in the Fountain Grove neighborhood.

One industry that's been impacted up and down the economic ladder is health care.

At the Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, and affiliated clinics run by Saint Joseph Health, 152 staff

lost their homes, including more than 50 physicians.

TODD SALNAS, President, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital: I'm spending as much time on housing,

on housing issues for our community as I am in just dealing with kind of day-to-day hospital

environment issues.

CAT WISE: Todd Salnas is president of the hospital.

He and his family have been staying with his dad since they lost their Fountain Grove home,

but he says he hasn't had much time to think about his own situation because he's been

so focused on helping his staff.

TODD SALNAS: It's really hard to ask people to be what they need to be in a very stressful,

highly-driven health care environment, and not have their families settled.

So we're trying to work very hard to get people settled immediately, right now..

WOMAN: One-bedroom apartment, it's downtown, very close to the hospital.

CAT WISE: Soon after the fires began, the hospital established this housing command

center, where teams are trying to connect displaced staff with temporary housing.

And nearby medical offices are being turned into small apartments.

So far, about 30 employees have been placed, but Salnas says he's already thinking about

their long-term needs and the community's.

TODD SALNAS: One thing is providing this immediate short-term need, right?

We have found a hotel for you for tonight, for the next week.

But once that wears off, having the capacity to serve the community, and recruit and retain

our medical community, which largely was wiped out in some of these -- in these fires, is

a major issue.

CAT WISE: How the rebuilding effort will proceed is now on the minds of many.

STEVE KRIEG, Insurance Agent: This is not something that can be rushed.

This is going to be a long process.

CAT WISE: Steve Krieg has been a local farmers insurance agent for 30 years.

More than 100 of his clients have lost homes.

He believes most homeowners in the region had fire insurance, although policies and

coverage varied.

But the costs of rebuilding for homeowners and insurance companies are a big unknown

at this point.

STEVE KRIEG: The city and county are already putting out guidelines of what they're going

to do.

We're hearing that they are going to waive fees for permits, but we're also finding that

any rebuild is going to have to be to current code.

That means a lot of homes are going to have a lot of changes.

And we don't know if the policies are going to have enough coverage to cover that.

Are building costs going to skyrocket because of the shortage of materials?

We don't know.

From what we heard, a lot of our materials just went to Houston to take care of the issues

that they just had with their weather calamity.

We need those materials back now.

I have also heard that mills are running around the clock up north of us, so they're trying

to get out as much lumber as they can.

Is it going to be enough?

We don't know, because we have never had this many homes at one time.

CAT WISE: Some in the community are hoping the city will use the rebuilding process to

address some longstanding housing issues.

OMAR MEDINA, North Bay Organizing Project: The people that are most likely to get pushed

out are low-income, people of color.

CAT WISE: Omar Medina is with the North Bay Organizing Project, a housing and community

advocacy nonprofit.

OMAR MEDINA: I think that the most critical thing that our community and our elected officials

can do is really think about, not only increasing the housing stock, but making sure that there's

affordable housing, and a significant amount of it.

CAT WISE: For construction worker Agustin Aguilera, the promise of more work in the

coming months is not easing his housing concerns.

AGUSTIN AGUILERA: I'm afraid that the wages are not going to go as high as the expenses

or the living in the area.

Unfortunately, if we cannot find an affordable place to live, we're probably going to have

to relocate.

I'm sad because I don't want to move from here.

I don't want to relocate.

CAT WISE: So far, more than 10,000 households impacted by the fires have registered with

FEMA, and local officials are now considering a range of options for increasing short-term

housing and expediting the rebuilding process.

But it is expected to be years, not months, before the community recovers.

For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Cat Wise in Santa Rosa, California.

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Trump Tax Reform Coming For Your 401(k) - Duration: 5:54.

IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY TERRIFIED BY WHAT TRUMP AND THE GOP'S

UPCOMING TAX POLICY CHANGES WILL DO TO YOU AND THE COUNTRY

WAIT UNTIL YOU FIND OUT WHAT THEY MIGHT DO TO YOUR 401(K),

ONE OF THE THINGS YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL CAN ACTUALLY

RELY ON OVER THE COURSE OF YOUR LIFE IF YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE

AND SAFE TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT DESTITUTE AND ON THE STREET.

YOU MIGHT HAVE READ THAT DONALD TRUMP IS A BIG FAN OF KEEPING

401(K)S THE WAY IT IS.

HE IMMEDIATELY CHANGED HIS MIND WITHIN 24 HOURS.

HE IS NOW SAYING HE IS OPEN TO POSSIBLY NEGOTIATING TO

CHANGE THAT.

SO TRUMP IS WILLING TO NEGOTIATE ON THAT JUST TWO DAYS AFTER

SAYING THAT HE WOULDN'T.

THIS IS NOT OUT OF TRUMP, THIS IS OUT OF SOME OF THE

REPUBLICANS THAT KNOW SOME OF THE DETAILS.

FOR A LOT OF AMERICANS THEY CAN PUT 18,000 IN, BUT IT SURE

WOULD BE NICE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE YOUR INCOME ROSE AT SOME POINT.

THAT IS MASSIVELY LOWERING IT DOWN, THAT MEANS YOU DON'T

BENEFIT FROM THE TAX SAVINGS OF THAT ADDITIONAL $16,000.

LET'S BREAK THIS DOWN.

KEVIN BRADY SAID YOU CAN CREATE INCENTIVES.

YOU JUST DID THE EXACT OPPOSITE.

THEY COULD'VE SAVED MORE AND SOONER IF YOU ALLOW THEM TO PUT

MORE INTO THEIR 401(K) TAX-FREE.

THAT WOULD'VE CREATED AN INCENTIVE TO SAVE MORE FASTER.

YOU DID THE EXACT OPPOSITE.

YOU SAID YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PUT THAT MUCH INTO YOUR

401(K) ANYMORE.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS DOES?

INCREASES TAXES ON THE MIDDLE CLASS.

THEY HAVE TO GET THE MONEY SOMEWHERE.

THEY ARE ABOUT TO GIVE A COUPLE TRILLION TO THE RICH.

THEY HAVE TO GIVES THE MONEY TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO

FINANCE WARS AND EVERYTHING ELSE THEY WANT TO DO.

WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GET IT FROM?

LET'S GO RUB THE MIDDLE CLASS AND THEN DO A BRAZEN LIE

WHERE WE SAY THE EXACT OPPOSITE.

THAT IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR YOU.

I HAVE THE STORY TEED UP, THE 401(K)

STORY ON MONDAY, AND WE COULDN'T GET TO IT.

I WISH WE HAD BECAUSE I HAD TRUMP'S TWEET ABOUT WHERE HE

SAID THERE WILL BE NO CHANGE TO YOUR 401(K).

THAT WAS HIS SWEET AND I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT IS GREAT,

AND THEN HE CHANGED HIS MIND.

BUT I'M TRUMP THE REASON I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT IS

BECAUSE IT IS WHOEVER WAS IN THE ROOM LAST.

MAYBE STEVE BANNON ñ HE CALLS THEM UP AND SAYS LET'S GIVE IT

TO THE MIDDLE CLASS OR SOMETHING.

I KNEW MCCONNELL WAS GOING TO COME IN NEXT AND SAY HEY IDIOT

THE PEOPLE WHO DONATED TO YOU AND WHO YOU WORK FOR WANT TO

SCREW THE MIDDLE CLASS.

WE ARE REALLY IN A CRAPPY

POSITION BECAUSE WE ARE

STUCK BETWEEN THE DESIRE OF REPUBLICANS TO TAKE EXTRA

MONEY FROM YOU SO THEY CAN GIVE IT TO THE RICH AND THE CONCERNS

THEY HAVE FOR THEIR DONORS SOME OF WHOM WORK IN INDUSTRIES

THAT WOULD USE THE MONEY YOU ARE PUTTING IN YOUR 401(K)

TO MAKE INVESTMENTS AND THEY CAN GENERATE MONEY OFF OF THAT.

I DON'T KNOW IF THE INDIVIDUAL RICH PEOPLE OR THE COMPANIES

WILL BENEFIT.

THE PEOPLE WHO BENEFIT FROM THE 401(K)S,

COMPANIES, WILL FIGHT BACK AGAINST US.

NOW I GET TO DO A PREDICTION.

TRUMBULL FLIP-FLOP ON THIS FOUR TIMES.

401 TIMES.

LITERALLY FOUR TIMES BECAUSE DIFFERENT LOBBYISTS AND

FINANCIAL INTERESTS WILL COME INTO THE ROOM.

THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS THE HOUSE MEANS COMMITTEE IS SUPER

IMPORTANT, THEY ARE THE ONES THAT CONTROL ALL THE MONEY AND

REPUBLICANS WHO CONTROL THAT ARE SAYING WE NEVER MEANT

MIDDLE-CLASS TAX CUTS.

IN FACT WE MEANT MIDDLE-CLASS TAX INCREASES YOU IDIOTS.

TEXT CUTS ARE FOR THE RICH, THAT IS WHAT KEVIN BRADY AND ALL

OF THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ARE SAYING.

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What Xi Jinping's power play means for U.S.-China relations - Duration: 5:13.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Over the past week, China's Communist Party has gathered for its once-every-five-year

Congress in Beijing, usually focused on policy.

It also chooses both the country's leader and his successor.

But, this year, there was a twist.

John Yang has the story.

JOHN YANG: Thanks, Judy.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is solidifying his grip on power.

Today, when he introduced new members of the so-called Standing Committee, the most powerful

group in the country, there was no successor to Xi identified.

Yesterday, Xi's doctrine was enshrined in the constitution.

That elevates him to the same status as modern China's founding communist leader, Mao Zedong.

For a look at what this means for China, the United States, and beyond, we're joined by

Christopher Johnson, who served for almost two decades as a China analyst at the CIA.

He's now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Mr. Johnson, welcome.

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON, Center for Strategic and International Studies: Thank you.

JOHN YANG: This all happens, of course, just two weeks before President Trump will be in

China to meet with President Xi.

What are the implications for U.S.-China relations in all of this?

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: I think the most important development is now Xi Jinping has demonstrated

that he is the unquestioned ruler in China.

And what has been striking about the bilateral relationship really since President Trump

came into power is the two men have been actually running the relationship.

The U.S. government is not fully staffed yet, as we have seen, and the president has occasionally

undermined his own secretary of state and other officials through tweeting and so on.

And so we see the two presidents, largely running the relationship.

Xi is now ready to welcome President Trump all the more powerful.

JOHN YANG: And in his 3.5-hour speech to the Party Congress last week, President Xi talked

about the great rejuvenation.

He wants to make China a global power...

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: Right.

JOHN YANG: ... at a time when President Trump is pulling away the U.S. influence on the

global stage.

How is that going to play?

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: Well, it will be interesting to watch.

There's no doubt that President Xi sees opportunity in President Trump's isolationism, as some

would put it.

Right from the beginning, when the president was elected, there's a reason why Xi Jinping

went to the Davos summit and talked about China's role increasingly as a defender of

global rules and norms and multinationalism and climate change and global agenda.

This doesn't ring true when you look at it on the surface, but if the U.S. is pulling

back, and China sees an opportunity, they are stepping into that vacuum.

And Xi Jinping is telling us, China not only expects to be a global power.

They are already one and will start acting like one.

JOHN YANG: Is there anything that happened in the Party Congress that concerns you about

U.S.-China relations?

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: You know, one of the things I think is potentially important is,

Xi Jinping made a point of talking about this island building that they have doing in the

South China Sea.

Now, this is typically something where China has conducted this activity, but not wanted

to draw attention to it.

Xi Jinping talked proudly about it in his speech.

This can be a dog whistle, if you will, for conservative elements here in the United States

who believe that China is eagerly trying to push the United States out of the region.

JOHN YANG: And you mentioned that the -- that President Xi talks about multinational trading

systems.

And he also talks about climate change, both areas where President Trump is pulling away.

Are there areas of possible cooperation between the United States and China?

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: I think the main area to look at is the economic relationship.

President Trump is sure to tell President Xi, I need more help on the trade balance

issue, and if you don't help me, I'm going to come after you through trade penalties

and remedies.

Xi Jinping has an opportunity.

He's signaling a desire to slow down China's economy.

This will be good for the United States and the globe, in that concerns about a Chinese

financial crisis that could cause us all a lot of trouble could be modified.

JOHN YANG: Will this have any impact on Mr. Trump's desire to get China to help him with

North Korea?

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: I think he will seek to indicate to Xi Jinping, OK, you have all

the power now.

Why don't you help me more on this issue?

There's been a sort of narrative in the past that Xi Jinping or any other Chinese leader

on North Korea has been constrained by hard-line influences in the military who remember fondly

China's support for North Korea and in the Korean war.

If Xi Jinping is really as powerful as he says, there should be nothing standing in

his way of being more supportive on the North Korea issue.

So, the real question is, does Xi Jinping himself want to help the United States on

the issue?

JOHN YANG: Briefly, as Xi consolidates his power, as he did at the Party Congress, are

we moving toward sort of a cult of personality like Mao?

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: I don't think so.

There's been a lot of debate about this, whether Xi Jinping is a power-mad megalomaniac like

Mao Zedong.

I think he's a pragmatist, and he has demonstrated that several times.

He doesn't look like someone who wants to cling on to power forever, and he's not been

someone who has acted in a whimsical way, like Mao.

Xi Jinping has a plan, and we have been watching him steadily execute it over the last five

years, and he will continue to do so going forward.

JOHN YANG: Christopher Johnson, thanks for joining us to help us understand all of this.

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON: My pleasure.

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John Kelly Lies To Cover For Trump - Duration: 12:50.

WE ARE SEVERAL DAYS INTO THIS INSANE FEUD THAT HAS DEVELOPED

OUT OF THE MILITARY SITUATION IN NIGER A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, IT'S

GONE THROUGH MULTIPLE ITERATIONS AND THE LATEST ONE WE ARE ON IS

THERE'S A CONCERTED EFFORT COMING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE TO

DISCREDIT THE CONGRESSWOMAN, FREDERICA WILSON, BECAUSE SHE

HAPPENED TO BE PRESENT FOR A PRESIDENTIAL PHONE CALL TO THE

WIDOW OF A SOLDIER SLAIN IN THE FIELD.

AND THE WILLINGNESS TO

PLAY FAST AND LOOSE ABOUT FACTS WITH BEACHES THAT HAVE BEEN

GIVEN COMING NOT JUST FROM DONALD TRUMP WHERE WE WOULD

EXPECT IT BUT OUT OF GENERALS LIKE JOHN KELLY IS CERTAINLY

DISAPPOINTING, SO WE WILL SHOW HOW THE MOST RECENT ATTACK BY

JOHN KELLY DURING HIS EMOTIONAL SPEECH YESTERDAY ABOUT WHAT IT'S

LIKE TO BE A FATHER WHO HAS LOST A SOLDIER IN COMBAT, WE WILL

BREAK DOWN SOME OF THE MISTRUTHS THAT WERE SPREAD.

BUT IN CASE YOU DIDN'T SEE IT HERE IS JOHN KELLY.

>>THE CONGRESSWOMAN STOOD UP, AND IN THE LONG TRADITION OF

EMPTY BARRELS MAKING THE MOST NOISE, SHE TALKED ABOUT HOW SHE

WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING THE FUNDING FOR THAT BUILDING, AND

HOW SHE CALLED THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HE GAVE HER THE MONEY

TO BUILD THAT BUILDING, AND SHE SAT DOWN.

WE WERE STUNNED,

STUNNED, THAT SHE HAD DONE IT.

EVEN FOR SOMEONE THAT IS THAT

EMPTY A BARREL, WE WERE STUNNED.

BUT NONE OF US WENT TO THE PRESS

AND CRITICIZED.

NONE OF US STOOD UP AND WERE APPALLED.

WE JUST SAID OKAY, FINE.

>> THAT'S A TOTALLY ORGANIC NOT PLANNED NARRATIVE WHEN YOU USE

THE EXPRESSION EMPTY BARREL THREE TIMES IN A MINUTE.

ALSO

SAYING STUNNED SHE WOULD LISTEN IN ON THE CALL.

THERE'S A

COMPLETE LACK OF INTEREST IN ACTUALLY UNDERSTANDING THE

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS CONGRESSWOMAN AND NOT JUST THE

WIDOW BUT THE SOLDIER WHO WAS KILLED, IT WOULD ALLOW YOU TO

UNDERSTAND WHY THIS PLAYED OUT THE WAY IT DID THAT THEN WE WILL

GET TO THE SUBSTANCE, WE WILL PLAY THE SPEECH THAT SHOWS HOW

WRONG HE WAS, BUT THERE IS THIS INABILITY IN THE WHITE HOUSE TO

UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU'VE MADE A LITTLE ERROR AND SIMPLY KILL IT

JUST BY APOLOGIZING, MOVING ON, THEY HAVE TO DOUBLE DOWN AND

DONALD TRUMP'S NEED TO DO THAT DRAWS IN PEOPLE LIKE JOHN KELLY

INTO GIVING A SPEECH LIKE THAT THAT I'M SURE HE HAD NO INTEREST

IN GIVING.

BUT HE SAYS THAT SHE'S AN EMPTY BARREL,

GRANDSTANDING, APPARENTLY THIS RECENT SITUATION IS JUST AN

EXAMPLE BECAUSE YOU CAN GO BACK AND SEE OTHER EXAMPLES LIKE WHEN

SHE TOOK CREDIT FOR THIS FBI BUILDING.

HERE IS THE ACTUAL SPEECH SHE GAVE THAT SHE WAS ALLUDING TO.

>> THE BRAND-NEW FEDERAL BUILDING THAT WILL HOUSE THE FBI

HAS BEEN BUILT, AND THE FBI APPROACHES MY OFFICE.

CONGRESSWOMAN WILSON THE RIBBON-CUTTING IS SCHEDULED IN

FOUR SHORT WEEKS, THE DEDICATION IS ON THE GOVERNMENT'S CALENDAR

AND CANNOT BE CHANGED.

ONE PROBLEM, THE FBI WANTS TO NAME

THIS GORGES EDIFICE AT THE SAME TIME IN FOUR WEEKS.

EVERYONE

SAID THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

IT TAKES AT LEAST EIGHT MONTHS TO A YEAR

TO COMPLETE THE PROCESS THROUGH THE HOUSE, THE SENATE, AND TO

THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE.

I'M A SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, AND I SAID

EXCUSE MY FRENCH, HELL NO, WE ARE GOING TO GET THIS DONE.

IMMEDIATELY I WENT TO ATTACK MODE, I SAID MR.

SPEAKER, I NEED

YOUR HELP, THE FBI NEEDS HER HELP, THE COUNTRY NEEDS HER

HELP, WE HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE.

HE WENT INTO ATTACK MODE, AND IN

TWO DAYS HE PULLED IT OUT OF COMMITTEE, BROUGHT IT TO THE

FLOOR FOR A VOTE, REPRESENTATIVES PRESENTED IT, WE

ALL VOTED AND I DASHED IT OVER TO THE SENATE AND PUT THE

SENATORS ON NOTICE, PUT IT ON YOUR RADAR.

SENATOR NELSON AND

SENATOR RUBIO, WHO I BELIEVE HAVE REPRESENTED OF HERE TODAY,

THEY HOTLINED IT TO THE SENATE FLOOR IN JUST TWO DAYS, AND

GUESS WHAT?

THE PRESIDENT SIGNED THE BILL INTO LAW THIS PAST

TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015, WITH A BANG, BANG, BANG.

IT'S A MIRACLE

TO SAY THE LEAST, BUT IT SPEAKS TO THE RESPECT THAT OUR CONGRESS

HAS FOR THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, THE MEN AND WOMEN

WHO PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE EVERYTHING A DAY. AND TODAY WE

ARE PROVIDING A BOOST --

>>IT GOES ON LIKE THAT BUT WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT SHE IS TALKING

ABOUT THE PROCESS, AT THIS DEDICATION, OF GETTING SOME

ADDITIONAL FUNDING, AND TO THE EXTENT THAT SHE IS

GRANDSTANDING, SHE'S ALSO GIVING CREDIT TO BASICALLY EVERYONE

ELSE ALONG THE WAY.

>>SHE IS QUITE INCLUSIVE.

>>IT WAS AN ANECDOTE ABOUT FINALIZING SOMETHING FOR THE

BUILDING, AND NOT WHAT GENERAL KELLY SAYS, CLAIMING SHE GOT THE

MONEY TO BUILD THE BUILDING.

YOU COULD SAY SHE'S GIVING A

RAMBLING ANECDOTE, THAT'S WHAT POLITICIANS DO UNFORTUNATELY,

BUT TO SAY THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HER TRYING TO TAKE CREDIT FOR

EVERYTHING AND TRY TO DISCREDIT HER, SAYING YOU CAN'T BELIEVE

SHE REPRESENTS THIS WIDOW WHO HAS COME OUT AND CONFIRMED THAT

TRUMP SAID WHAT HE SAID, TRUMP'S OWN PEOPLE HAVE CONFIRMED HE

SAID IT, AND THEY ARE ATTEMPTING TO MUDDY THE WATERS AND

CONFUSE YOU ABOUT THE WHOLE THING.

>>JUST AS A TESTAMENT TO THE ANECDOTE SHE WAS GIVING, JAMES

COMEY WAS AT THAT CEREMONY AS WELL, AND IN HIS PREPARED

REMARKS HE DISCUSSED THE IMPORTANCE OF IT HAVING A NAME

FOR THE DEDICATION AND HOW QUICKLY THE CONGRESSWOMAN WAS

ABLE TO PROVIDE THE INITIAL BOOST TO GET THAT TO HAPPEN, IT

WAS A BIG DEAL FOR THEM.

IT WASN'T OUT OF LEFT FIELD, IT WAS

PART OF THEIR PREPARED REMARKS.

GOES BACK TO THE FACT THAT THIS

IS A REFLECTION OF, AND I KNOW THIS IS AN EASY GO TO BUT IT'S

ALSO TRUE, OF WHAT TRUMP'S M.O. IS, TO CASH IN ON OTHER PEOPLE

AND MAKE THEM SUBJUGATE THEMSELVES.

AT EVERY EVENT KELLY

SAYS NOT A SINGLE WORD, HE JUST POINTS TO THE PRESIDENT AND

CLAPS AND EVERYONE CHEERS AND HE WALKS AWAY.

HE HAD TO GIVE THIS

SPEECH, JUST LIKE TILLERSON HAD TO DO IT THREE WEEKS AGO, I

DIDN'T SAY HE WAS A MORON.

>>AND THEN EVENTUALLY HE CASTS THEM OFF.

>>HE BURNS THEIR CREDIBILITY DOWN AND MOVES ON, THAT'S

OUR AFFECTION OF HIS OVERALL APPROACH.

>>I WISH THERE HADN'T BEEN THIS WEIRD TENSION IN THE NEWS BUT I

THINK IT'S IMPORTANT ESPECIALLY FOR TRUMP SUPPORTERS TO

UNDERSTAND THAT, FORGET ABOUT THE JOHN KELLY AND THE WILSON

THING, THE DISRESPECT GIVEN ROUTINELY FROM DONALD TRUMP TO

THE GOLDSTAR FAMILIES AND ALL THAT, THAT IS IMPORTANT, I DON'T

KNOW THAT IT WILL PENETRATE AND HIS SUPPORTERS WILL BE AFFECTED

BY IT, HE'S BEEN ROUTINELY DISRESPECTFUL TO THE MILITARY

FOR MANY YEARS AT THIS POINT, BUT HOPEFULLY ONCE THIS HAS BEEN

RESOLVED WE CAN GET BACK TO THE REAL STORY WHICH IS WHAT

ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN AFRICA, HOW WE GOT TO THAT SITUATION.

NOT

JUST WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT, BUT WHY THAT SITUATION

DEVELOPED.

LAST NIGHT I BELIEVE RACHEL MADDOW TALKED ABOUT SOME

OF THE POLICY DECISIONS THAT MIGHT HAVE LED TO THAT, HAVING

TO DO WITH CHAD AND SOME OF THAT, BUT THAT'S AN INTERESTING

SITUATION.

THE REASON WE HAVE THIS TENTED IS BECAUSE TRUMP

REFUSED TO GO ON RECORD ABOUT WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED ON THE

GROUND, AND IT MIGHT WELL BE, I SAW THIS EDITORIAL, DON'T MAKE

THIS SITUATION INTO TRUMP'S BENGHAZI -- BUT I THINK THIS IS

EXACTLY LIKE BENGHAZI.

NOT WHAT BENGHAZI BECAME, BUT WHAT IT

WAS, A MILITARY SITUATION THAT

GOT OUT OF CONTROL, THERE IS NO

HUGE CONSPIRACY, THERE'S JUST IRRESPONSIBILITY AND POOR

DECISION-MAKING.

AND TRUMP MADE IT SO MUCH WORSE BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO BE

FORTHCOMING.

>> WHEN THIS WAS FIRST HAPPENING I THOUGHT, I HOPE THE PRESIDENT

WILL ASK ABOUT WHY OUR TROOPS ARE THERE AND WHAT THE MISSION

WAS ABOUT.

THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED, IT ENDED UP BEING A

WHOLE QUESTION OF HOW COME YOU WAITED SO LONG TO CALL THE

FAMILIES, IT TURNED INTO WHAT WE'VE JUST BEEN TALKING ABOUT.

BUT THE SPECIFICS ALSO OF HOW TRUMP HAS TARNISHED, AND HOW

KELLY AND THIS ADMINISTRATION, HAVE TARNISHED THIS

CONGRESSWOMAN, HOW SHE WAS LISTENING IN ON THE CALL.

THERE'S A SENSE THAT EVERYONE IS SITTING AROUND AND SHE'S

LISTENING IN ON THE EXTENSION --

>>THE

WIDOW PUT IT ON SPEAKERPHONE, SORRY, SHE GETS TO DO THAT.

>> SHE WAS DRIVING TO PICK UP THE CORPSE OF HER DEAD SON, AND

THE CONGRESSWOMAN WAS ACCOMPANYING HER, AND THE CALL

CAME IN AND IT WAS ON THE SPEAKERPHONE, THERE'S NOTHING

DAMNING ABOUT THAT SCENARIO, AND IT EXPLAINS THE RELATIONSHIP

BETWEEN THE CONGRESSWOMAN AND THE FAMILY AND THE FALLEN

SOLDIER.

BUT THE FACT THAT IT HAS BEEN POLITICIZED, TO USE THE

OVERUSED WORD, BUT IT'S APPROPRIATE -- BUT ALSO THAT IT

HAS BEEN USED TO SOMEHOW TARNISH THIS PROUD FAMILY AND THIS

CONGRESSWOMAN, IS ABHORRENT TO ME.

>>THIS WHOLE SITUATION IS IMPORTANT BUT I AGREE, AT SOME

POINT THE REAL STORY, EVEN OUTSIDE OF THIS INCIDENT, IT'S

THE CONTEXTUAL BATTLE GOING ON IN THIS REGION, I BELIEVE TODAY,

I FORGET WHO IT WAS, A SENATOR, MAYBE LINDSEY GRAHAM, TALKING

ABOUT HOW THE WAR HAS SHIFTED TO AFRICA, IT'S COMPLICATED,

MULTIPLE COUNTRIES BORDERING NIGER HAVING TERRORIST GROUPS

THAT ARE ALIGNED WITH ISIS, PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT,

THERE HAS TO BE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE NUMBER OF TROOPS

THERE, HOW DO WE ACCESS IF IT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL, ARE WE

SIMPLY GOING TO LEAVE THEM FOR YEARS ON END?

HOW MANY TROOPS

ARE THERE, IS IT 100 OR 1000, THAT SEEMS IMPORTANT.

AND WE ARE

STILL WAITING FOR INFORMATION TO COME OUT ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR

INCIDENT, IT WILL COME OUT, THERE IS AN INVESTIGATION

ONGOING, BUT IN PARTICULAR THE PRIVATE CONTRACTOR THAT SENT THE

RESCUE, THE HELICOPTER, IF IT WAS THEIR FAULT FOR LEAVING

BEHIND A SOLDIER WE NEED TO KNOW THAT, AND WE HAVE BEEN LONG

OVERDUE FOR A LARGER CONVERSATION ABOUT THE ROLE OF

PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS IN OUR OPERATIONS, AND MAYBE

THIS COULD LEAD TO THAT.

>>I'M GLAD YOU MENTIONED PRIVATE CONTRACTORS BECAUSE QUICKLY,

THERE IS A BIG MOVE, ERIC PRINCE, THE BLACKWATER HEAD,

THEY ARE THE BIG CONTRACTORS WHO MADE OUT LIKE CRAZY ON THE IRAQ

WAR, HE'S PUSHING FOR THE PRIVATIZATION OF ALL OF THESE

WARS.

THAT WE CONTRACT ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT THINGS OUT.

THAT

NOW IS THE TIME TO PRIVATELY CONTRACT ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT

SKIRMISHES AND WAR THEATERS OUT. AND THIS IS THE MINISTRATION TO

HELP HIM DO IT.

IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME IN THIS COUNTRY WHEN

WE WOULD HAND OVER THE KEYS TO OUR MILITARY TO PRIVATE

CONTRACTORS, IT IS NOW.

SO KEEP YOUR EYE ON THAT BALL IS THIS

ENTIRE DEBATE CONTINUES.

ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE

MILITARY, KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIVATE CONTRACTOR PART OF

THAT EQUATION.

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'There is a battle going on for the soul of the Republican Party,' says Rep. Charlie Dent - Duration: 6:49.

JUDY WOODRUFF: The very public split between President Trump and some members of his own

party has been led by Republican lawmakers who are not seeking reelection, among them,

Charlie Dent, congressman from Pennsylvania, now serving his seventh term in the House.

He's a co-chair of the moderate Tuesday Group and member of the Appropriations Committee.

We spoke a short time ago.

And I began by asking if he agrees with Senator Jeff Flake that President Trump is, among

other things -- quote -- "untruthful and reckless."

REP.

CHARLIE DENT (R), Pennsylvania: Many of us have been critical of the president in terms

of his tone and his temperament.

We, as members of Congress, have spent far too much time trying to answer questions about

the tweet of the moment.

Sometimes, they're inappropriate.

Sometimes, they're perhaps offensive.

Sometimes, they're unimportant.

But because we are doing that, we are distracted from doing the people's business.

And I think Jeff Flake is on point.

And I have said to my colleagues it's important that people like Senator Flake, myself, and

Bob Corker speak up, that we should bring voice to some of these issues.

And when we agree with the president, we shouldn't be afraid to say so.

And when we disagree with him, we should act as a check.

And if the president does something that's off the rails, then we need to call him out

and not apologize for it.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, are your fellow Republicans afraid to speak up, some of them?

Because, at one point, Senator Flake said yesterday, we can't be complicit in standing

by a president when we don't agree with what he's doing.

REP.

CHARLIE DENT: Well, look, I have encouraged my colleagues to speak up, to say what they

-- to say publicly what they say privately.

And I'm -- look, I'm not here to see seek redemption.

I didn't support the president during the campaign, and for a lot of reasons I have

stated over that time period.

And I think it's important that my colleagues stand up.

And we should exercise our Article I authorities.

We are the Congress of the United States.

We have to reassert ourselves.

As Republicans, we complained quite a bit, justifiably, when President Obama overreached,

and we talked about Congress being trampled.

And, at this time, it's even more important that we stand up now because at times the

president has made disparaging comments about the media, about judges.

And I think it's important that we defend these institutions that are critical to our

democratic values.

Democrat with a small D, I'm talking about here.

It's important that we protect these institutions and let the president know when we disagree

with him.

Those are the types of things that often get said about the press and the media and the

judges in authoritarian countries.

We don't do that here in the United States, and we have to be better.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Congressman, how widely held are the views that Senator Flake and you hold

to one degree or another among Republicans?

REP.

CHARLIE DENT: Oh, I think that many of my colleagues share our view about what's happening

at the White House.

And let me -- let me qualify it this way.

I expect a certain amount of dysfunction in government.

You know, we -- our -- we have a separation of powers, checks and balances, and, sometimes,

you know, we can laugh at ourselves in terms of what happens in Congress in a democratic

body.

But, you know, I have often said, you know, at the White House, they seem to have taken

the fun out of dysfunction.

It's very difficult for us at times to deal with some of these issues.

I don't like having to answer questions about Miss Universe's weight, for example, or crowd

size, or, you know, accusations that President Obama spied on Donald Trump or his campaign.

We don't like to have to answer these questions that we know are either unimportant or offensive

or perhaps untrue.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Do you still consider yourself a Republican?

REP.

CHARLIE DENT: Absolutely.

I'm a member of the party, a proud member of the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore

Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

And I believe it's -- that we have an obligation as Republican members of Congress to stand

up for this party of individual liberty that believes in a strong national defense and

limited role of government, and we shouldn't shy away from that.

But there is a battle going on for the soul of the Republican Party.

I mean, I am concerned -- and this is true of both parties right now, by the way, Judy

-- and there are these elements of isolationism, nativism, protectionism that rear their heads

in both parties right now.

And these are not attributes of a great nation.

And so I think there's a political -- I happen to believe there's a political realignment

occurring in our country.

The ground is shifting right under our feet, and no one knows how this is going to resolve

itself.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, do you think President Trump is helping that along?

REP.

CHARLIE DENT: Well, it certainly seems that he's trying to remake the party, I think,

in the image of himself or maybe Steve Bannon, and I don't think that is in our party's interest.

I mean, the party shouldn't be about a man or an individual.

It should be about a set of principles and ideals and ideas.

That's what we should be about.

And I do get concerned when I hear now -- we used to have a litmus test, it seemed, for

a long time.

The battle in the Republican Party, there was a litmus test over -- between the purists

and the pragmatists.

You know, were you pure enough?

And I was always in the pragmatic camp, and so you would be defined as a RINO, Republican

in name only, if you weren't pure enough on all the issues, if you weren't doctrinaire

enough.

But now that has all shifted.

That paradigm has shifted.

The new litmus test seems to be loyalty to the president, to a person.

And that is troubling to me.

And, Jeff Flake, by the way, is a very conservative member of the Senate, very conservative.

So, really, his issues were not ideological.

It was about his loyalty to the president.

And I think that's unfortunate.

We, as members of Congress, are elected by our constituents.

Our job is to work with the president, not for the president.

We are a separate branch of government, separate but equal.

And I'm very concerned, you know, that there's too much talk here of separation of parties

and not enough talk of separation of powers.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Just quickly, finally, Congressman, prospects for tax reform?

REP.

CHARLIE DENT: I think the prospects of tax reform are reasonably good.

Difficult issue.

We're likely to pass a budget out of the House tomorrow.

And then we're -- and when we see the real tax reform plan, that's when the -- that's

when the work really begins.

But I do think there's a chance to get some, at the very least, some business tax relief,

hopefully partially offset, but I think there's a real possibility to get some reform.

I'm not going to make any grand predictions about a massive comprehensive reform, but

I think we will get something.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Congressman Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, we thank you very much.

REP.

CHARLIE DENT: Thank you, Judy.

Great to be with you.

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Millennials Ditching Religion For Astrology And Witchcraft? - Duration: 6:22.

MILLENNIAL'S ARE LESS LIKELY TO BELIEVE IN ORGANIZED RELIGION

COMPARED TO PREVIOUS GENERATIONS, HOWEVER, THEY ARE

INCREASINGLY IN FAVOR OF AND IN BELIEF OF CERTAIN

NONTRADITIONAL RELIGIONS OR WHATEVER.

CLICK SPIRITUALITY.

THIS IS A VERY DEVASTATING STORY FOR ME.

I DON'T THINK SO.

I THINK THIS IS OVERHYPED BUT LET'S DO THE NUMBERS AND WE

WILL DISCUSS IT.

MILLENNIAL'S LIKE WITCHCRAFT.

KNOW THEY DON'T.

AND ASTROLOGY.

WHEN I SAY THAT IT IS A GENERALIZATION.

WHEN YOU ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE NUMBER IS THAT THE MAJORITY

OF MILLENNIAL'S BUT AN INCREASING NUMBER OF

MILLENNIAL'S ARE INCLINED TO BELIEVE IN ASTROLOGY AND TO

SOME EXTENT ALSO WITCHCRAFT.

REMEMBER, THAT'S 2012.

5 YEARS LATER THAT NUMBERS WAY LOWER, GUARANTEE AND WE SEE

ANOTHER POLLS OF ALL AMERICANS.

I FIND THAT PHENOMENON TO BE FANTASTIC.

IT WAS A HUGE DEAL JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WHEN 14% OF

AMERICANS SAID THEY NO LONGER BELIEVED IN RELIGION.

THE NUMBER THIS YEAR JUMP TO 24%

SO THIS THING IS TAKEN UP LATE OFF LIKE A ROCK.

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE TO BE RIGHT?

NOW THEORETICALLY THE BAD SIDE.

I DON'T KNOW WHY THERE WAS A NEEDLESS COMPARISON TO CHINA.

THE CHINESE BELIEVE OTHER ABSURD THINGS THEY JUST HAPPENED

TO PICK ASTROLOGY BECAUSE THE CHINESE AREN'T THAT INTO

ASTROLOGY DON THE OTHER HAND, SOME PERCENTAGE OF CHINESE

BELIEVE THAT TIGER PENIS WILL MAKE YOU HARD IF YOU EAT IT.

HAVE YOU TRIED THOUGH.

NO I HAVE NOT.

SO EVERYBODY HAS DIFFERENT KOOKY

WAYS OF THINKING BUT IS IT THAT IT'D IS INCREASING DRAMATICALLY?

THERE'S NOT GREAT EVIDENCE TO THAT, THEY ARE JUST SAYING

HALF OF YOUNG PEOPLE BELIEVE IN ASTROLOGY.

IT COULD'VE BEEN THAT A DECADE AGO TWO THIRDS OF THEM

BELIEVED IN ASTROLOGY.

IT'S NOT GREAT EVIDENCE IN THIS ARTICLE FOR MARKETWATCH TO

BE HONEST.

THERE ARE THESE THINGS KNOWN AS METAPHYSICAL BOUTIQUES THAT

ARE AND HIP TRENDY AREAS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND THE

OWNERS HAVE SAID THAT THEY'VE EXPERIENCED AN UPTICK IN

CLIENTELE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS ESPECIALLY AMONG NEW

YORKERS IN THEIR 20S SO THESE WORKSHOPS, THESE STORES OFFER

WORKSHOPS LIKE WITCHCRAFT 101,

ASTROLOGY 101 AND SPIRIT S…ANCE GOT

I'VE SEEN THAT.

TO BE FAIR, I'VE SEEN AN INCREASE IN SPIRITUALITY WHICH

IS A GOOD THING THAT I DON'T BEGRUDGE ANYBODY

SPIRITUALITY OF FAITH.

I JUST THE RELIGIONS ARE WRONG SO IF THEY'VE GOTTEN RID OF

RELIGION AND THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT FAITH OR SPIRITUALITY

AND IT'S THEIR OWN, GOD BLESS THEIR HEARTS.

MAYBE LITERALLY.

ON THE OTHER HAND, SOMETIMES IT TAKES SOME FORMS I DON'T

AGREE WITH.

YOUR RIGHT.

I DON'T KNOW WHY AM NEEDLESSLY BEING HARSH AND SALTY WITH

THE STORY BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO AGREE WITH ASTROLOGY ARE

NOT TRYING TO DICTATE MY LIFE WITH THEIR ASTROLOGY STUFF.

SO I JUST NEED TO CALM DOWN.

I JUST I THINK THE REASON WHY THE STORY RUBBED ME THE WRONG

WAY AS I HATE WHEN PEOPLE THINK THEY KNOW YOU BASED ON WHAT

YOUR SINUS.

1ST OF ALL I HATE PEOPLE WHEN PEOPLE ASKED ME WHAT MY SINUS.

DON'T ASK ME.

DOESN'T MATTERS IS NOTHING ABOUT ME AND THEN IF I DO HAVE AN

ANSWER THE QUESTION AND HUMOR THEM FOR A BED LIKE OH,

WILL TURNS OUT YOU'RE ACTUALLY THIS TYPE OF PERSON AND AT

SEVERAL PERSON.

KNOW YOU ACTUALLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME AND MY SIGN

DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING.

THAT'S LAME SALTY DUCK

WE HAVE CRANKY AND I TODAY.

DON'T TRY TO PICK UP ANNA WITH WHAT'S YOUR SIGN I DON'T

BELIEVE IN ASTROLOGY.

I DON'T THINK THAT EVERYONE BORN AT THE SAME TIME ALL ACT THE

SAME WAY AND OF THE SAME THINGS HAPPEN TO THEM.

THAT IS A REALLY PREPOSTEROUS THING TO BELIEVE BUT I GET

THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE IT I LOVE YOU BROTHERS AND

SISTERS AND THEN THERE ARE THE FOLKS I BELIEVE THERE IS ENERGY

EVERYWHERE AND YOU CAN MOVE IT AROUND AND STUFF BY DOING THIS.

I LOVE YOU DUCK

TO TALK ABOUT THIS IN THE POST GAME.

I HAVE STORIES.

TYTNETWORK.COM/JOIN TO HEAR MORE S…ANCE STORIES AND

THAT'S GONNA BE FUNÖ THE MEMBERS.

NOW IDLE HAPPEN TO BELIEVE THAT I THINK IT'S KINDA GOOFY.

HAVE TO BE HONEST WITH YOU.

THE WITCHCRAFT PEOPLE THERE ACTUALLY MORE INTO NATURE.

THERE ACTUALLY SOME OF THE MORE SENSIBLE ONES OF THESE

DIFFERENT BELIEFS.

YOU'RE RIGHT THAT THEY'RE NOT ACTUALLY BREWING ANYTHING

OVER A POT.

ARE NOW PLAYING ON BRIM STOCK

THEY ARE ACTUALLY TRYING TO RESPECT NATURE ETC.

THE ONLY STUFF THEY HAD ON HERE THEY SAID THE PSYCHIC

SERVICES AND INJURY GREW 2% BETWEEN 2011 AND 2016.

IT'S NOW WORTH $2 BILLION INDUSTRY.

IF IT ONLY GREW 2%, IT WAS ALSO A $2 BILLION INDUSTRY IN 2011.

YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?

IT DIDN'T MOVE MUCH SO I AGREE BELIEVE THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF

MOVEMENT TOWARD SOME BELIEVED THAT I DON'T ASCRIBE TO AND I

HAVE TO CONFESS I SOMETIMES FIND GOOFY BUT WHAT I RATHER HAVE

THEM BELIEVE IN ENERGY AND TAROT CARDS OR THAT WE SHOULD ALL KILL

EACH OTHER BECAUSE SOME RABBI OR MOLA SAID IT 2000 YEARS AGO?

TAROT CARDS.

WHAT'S YOUR SIGN?

WAY BETTER THEN THE OLD RELIGIONS THAT ARE TOTALLY

WRONG AND OFTEN LEAD TO VIOLENCE.

FAIR ENOUGH?

SURE.

EVEN CRANKY ANA AGREES.