Transcripts For CSPAN2 Jill Stein Discusses Her 2016 Preside

Pauls, progressive on the social side . Economically i think that, i think jill and i agree on a whole lot of topics but i think when it comes to economics, jill and i come to a t in the road and if what ron paul is saying is that shes more progressive on social issues, well thats his opinion. If shes saying she is better on the issues from a economic standpoint, i would be surprises if he were saying that. Et host david from bell, california, support of the Hillary Clinton. Good evening. Caller hi, governor johnson, ive never been registered with any party. That is how i conduct myself as citizen. Im concerned at beginning of the show the host asked you about who you would appoint for example, as foreign secretary. I think that is pretty important question to ask. I dont know if your answer was sufficient now. Im supporting Hillary Clinton this year because i trust her. I obviously dont support trump. I trust you on social issues but im not sure that is good enough to get me to vote for you. I could totally vote for you given i live in a county where the Democratic Party is going to win it hands down. Let me ask you two questions. What is your position on the inheritance tax and why . Then as it relates to Foreign Policy, how would you, for example, deal with a president dutatre that is antagonizing the United States. Host two points. Guest philippine president will see a greatly diminished tourist trade with the United States. That is my guest. Unless he, unless he adjusts his dialogue or people get him out of office, i think the philippines will suffer as a result of tourism dropping in the philippines. That is my prediction. Ti and the things that he is doing from a human rights standpoint, i would stand up to what he is doing from a human rights standpoint. And this crackdown on drugs resulting in the deaths of a whole lot of people. So, i would certainly, i would certainly engage in the dialogue against what he is doing if i were elected president of the United States. And back to hillary and host the inheritance tax. Guest oh, inheritance tax, thank you. Inheritance tax, that is one of those issues where lower middle class, i realize that for the most part theyre able to pass that money on because of the limits that do exist but, ideally we would not have that tax. Ideally, if we were to eliminate income tax and Corporate Tax and replace all of it with one federal consumption tax, we would not have a deduction for social security, we would not have a deduction for unemployment. We would not have a deductionntw for medicaid, and the inheritance tax would go by the wayside and all those other, all of those other revenues would come from the proceeds of one federal consumption tax. Host one more call. This is from ricky in desoto, missouri. Good evening. Caller hi, well, this is good evening, to mr. Johnson, to you as well. Im 19 years old and im very openminded. This is my first president ial election i can pour take in. This election is insult to human intelligence. United States Government is using our love for the land against us to create problems in our own homes. Were force fed information in schools. Kids have to compete on standardized tests to be cradled. I think backbone of your youth is youth have absolutely no say in my political positions involving important subjects involving our home and well being. Do you have anything in mind how the youth can eventually be involved into government . Guest well, i do. I will point out the obvious here is that young people, you know, 18 through 34, have only grown up with the internet. My generation, other older generations have grown up seeing everything through a filter. Because you havent seen anything through a filter, i think you really kind of cutbeco through the clutter more than any other group. Im believing that is the case because im tied for the lead among your demographic. Im hoping thats the case. So young people have really been sold or are being, right now the attempt is to sell you all a bill of goods. Expanding medicaid and medicare, doing nothing when it comes to social security. Continuing a Foreign Policy that puts you in harms way. I think youre bearing the brunt of all of this. All of this is going to come to a crashing conclusion because we just simply can not continue to print money to cover things that we cant pay for. The horrible tax that the end of all of this, the breakdown, will be just whiplash inflation. That the money that you have saved will be worth an incredible the money you have saved will be worth a much lower amount literally overnight because that is how this is going to manifest itself. A lot more money, chasing same goods and services is going to result much, much, higher prices and that is the demise of most, most countries like ourselves. We have a chance here to deal with it but lets deal with it. It is not an option to say lets do nothing. It is not an option to expand these programs. Host let me conclude with this question for you personally. What is a bigger challenge, l running for president or scaling mount he have rest . Mount everest. Guest steve, one in the same. One foot in front of the other. Going to everest and getting to the summit. Getting to the summit was going to be a real plus. Being there, being fit enough, being in a position, staying safe, working your way, look there are a lot of factors i dont know your control but that i was there and was actually successful in endeavor, it was a process. Running for president is aent ia process. It is the same thing. One spot in front of the other. Life is all about dealing with failure. E. How we deal with failure ultimately determines success. Do you crawl up in a ball, declare yourself a victim, or, do you get up the next day with a smile on your face, recognizing that it is a process . S . Im the latter. I wake up every day with a smile. Its a process. Setbacks are what we deal with all the time. Lets deal with them. Host joining us from santa fe, new mexico, this last hour, former governor gary johnson, the 2016 libertarian nominee. Thanks for being with us here on cspan. We appreciate it. Guest steve, thank you very much. Before the final debate between Hillary Clinton and donald trump, were looking back to past president ial debates. This saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, the 1984 debate between president Ronald Reagan and former Vice President walter mondale. We must understand that we are a democracy. We are a government by the people and when we move, it should be for very severe and extreme reasons that serve our National Interests and end up with a stronger country behind us. I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponents youth and inexperience. [laughter] then the 1988 president ial debate between Vice President george h. W. Bush and Massachusetts Governor michael dukakis. You have a president that will work with the congress and the American People. We can bring that deficit down steadily, 25, 30, billion dollars a year, build economic growth. Build a good strong future in america. Invest in those things we must invest in. Economic development, good jobs. I wish he would join me, as a matter of fact, in appealing to the American People for the balanced Budget Amendment to the federal government and for the line eight seem veto. [applause] i would like to have the line eight seem veto for the president because i think that would be extraordinarily helpful. The 2008 debate with illinois senator barack obama and arizona senator john mccain. Situation today cries out for bipartisanship. Senator obama has never taken on his leaders of his party on a single issue. And we need to reform. So lets look at our records as well as our rhetoric. That is really part of your mistrust here. So well have to make some investments but we also have to make spending cuts and what i proposed, senator mccain is proposing a whole bunch of new spending, actually im cutting more than im spending, so it will cabinet spending cut. The key is whether or not we got priorities working for you. Watch past president ial debates, saturday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Watch anytime on cspan. Org. Listen at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on the cspan radio app. Tonight we continue our look at the two leading third party g candidates. In our first hour governor gary johnson joining us from new mexico and jill stein along with her running mate. We want to look where she accepted her Green Party Nomination in houston, texas. I am honored beyond words to be your candidate. Im so honored to be running for president of the United States with the green party. The only party of, by and for the people. That is what we are. We have been ahead of the curve in some ways. On Climate Change, on greenn energy, on demille atation, thattization, on on marriage equality, on free Public Higher Education and canceling student debt. [cheering] on stopping the transpacific partnership. [cheering] on ending the war on drugs and the incarceration state. [cheering] on providing reparations for slavery and to the Indigenous People of this nation. [cheering] on, on opposing war crimes committed by saudi arabia in yemen, and war crimes, and war crimes and occupation committed by the Israeli Government in palestine [cheering] and so much more. E. We have been ahead of the curvee for decades. And all of us know that curve is catching up to us big time. Host issues for the green party and joining us here in our studios is dr. Jill stein, the Green Party Nominee. Ee thank you being with us. And your running mate. Why did you select him as your running mate . Because he is a powerful and distinguished voice on behalf of human rights. On behalf of economic rights and workers rights and racial justice. And in this country we are that are locked out of jocks andd locked out of education. Im exciting to have him here, with a diverses and multiracial around multicultural education to invite in many people who are otherwise locked out of our economy and out of our political system. Host well talk about some. Issues youre involved in. F you want to build a Peoples Movement and end unemployment and poverty. So on those two issues how do you do that . Rate a thi we incorporate a third crisis along with that unemployment, poverty and Climate Change. We call for an Emergency Jobs Program that will address the economic crisis but also address the Climate Crisis. Fix them together, because they only can be fixed together because otherwise people are pitted against each other, given a choice between either the climate or jobs. Bs. That way, people always choose jobs because that is about survival today. We call for a jobs program to give everyone a good paying, living wage job as part of this emergency green energy revive theto economy, turn the tide on which will also in fact make wars for oil obsolete. This is a winwin, win. Last point about this, we get so much healthier by eliminating fossil fuels. There are 200,000 people who die every year in this country from the impact of fossil fuels alone. Alone. So on that basis eye loan, weimt save so much money elimination of fossil fuel. That Health Savings is enough to pay for cost of green energy transition. We call for zeroing out fossil fuels. Creating all the jobs and clean renewal energy, wind, water, and sun, to basically create t 20 million jobs, zeroing out fossil fuel by 2030. Host you think that is realistic . Guest put it this way, not doing that is not compatible with survival from what the science tells us. It says in all kinds of ways,in whether you look at jim hansons recent study that says we will be seeing doubledigit feet o Sea Level Rise as soon as 2060. A recent report put out by Oil Change International last week said as much. We have to zero out fossil fuels in the next 17 years if we are going to avoid catastrophic Climate Change. We have no choice. Oi we say we have to declare a national emergency, like we did when pearl harbor was bombed. You know how long it took for to us transform the economy . No one would have said that was realistic. It was a matter of national emergency. It took us six months to completely transform the economy for wartime footing. We have a new war now. The most deadly war we have ever faced. That is the war for our survival against Climate Change. So if we could transform our economy in the second world waro in six months we can do it in the next 15 years. Host mr. Baraka, let me ask but the cycle of poverty. It is obviously very high in americas inner cities and especially high among africanamerican males and poverty and crime. What is the role of the federal government . How do you end that cycle . Guest i think the government has a very Important Role to play in terms of expandings justice for making sure that people have the ability to live dignified lives, working with the private sector to insure that people have jobs. Where you have jobs and jobs at a living wage, then you can directly confront poverty. You can create conditions where people will live in dignity. Tackling poverty, something that various president s have tried over the last few decade is still the number one challenge to do that you have to have economy providing real justice v to people. You have to have economy that receives assistance from the federal government. This notion that the private sector or the market, the magic of the market is going to solve these problems, going to create all of the jobs that we need is kind of naive. Host youre a supporter of dr. Jill stein. Ajamu baraka. If youre supporter of Hillary Clinton and 202if i didnt reae expectations i didnt have expectation where this would go. Im extremely gratified by the development so far. There is certainly a media blackout that held back our campaign. So we have received the least amount of prime time media coverage. In fact donald trump and Hillary Clinton have had approximately 20,000 times more free prime time coverage on network news, yet they are not 20,000 times ahead of us. There is a strong grassroots campaign, especially among young people, millenials, who have been wiped out of jobs, who are mired in debt and who are inheriting the Climate Crisis full on their backs. As they hear about us, they are absolutely overjoyed that we ars the campaign that is actually paying attention. That offers a bailout fornt students like democrats and republicans, they bailed out wall street, the crooks who crashed the economy. Were saying it is time to bail out victims of that economy. That word has gotten out. The Sanders Campaign, informed members of the Sanders Campaign who have been able to get pastn this media blackout, they too are strongly supporting our campaign at this point. Pp so it feels very exciting to me how weve been able to reach out to the africanamerican community, to the latino community, who learned that the republicans are the party of hate and fearmongering, but tho democrats are the party of deportations detentions and night raids. Feels like were in a moment off discovery about the green party, at the same time that people are more fed up than ever, and the two democratic and republican candidates are the mostdislikedm and untrusted president ial candidates in our history. We deserve open debates. And that is what the American People are clamoring for. And i think, you know it is not over until it is over. Were still pushing for the right of american voters, not only to vote but also to know who they can vote for and what are the Critical Issues that really need to be discussed in this election. Host your names appear on how many state ballots . Guest i think we have 48 at this point. Host let me ask you about one Foreign Policy issue. Youve been critical of Hillary Clinton on syria and isis. She bears a lot of responsibility for what is happening there. How so . Guest there is no question that isis a part of the major problem in syria. Lets acknowledge syria is very complicated war going on. There is a civil war and a proxy war among many foreign powers in syria. It is also a war over who gets to run their pipeline through syria, but part of that mess is isis and isis in turn grew out of the chaos of iraq. And isis also grew out of the chaos of libya. Hillary clinton approved that war in iraq but she also led the charge into libya. So she has everything to do, and her poor judgment has everything to do with the chaos of around the middle east now were seeing full force in syria. Whats really frightening now, steve, to me, is that hillary has been pushing for a long time, but all the stronger now, she is calling for a nofly zone in syria, and what that really means is not only bombing syriaa and taking out all of the antiaircraft positions, which means bombing Population Centers in syria, but it also means shooting airplanes out of the sky who are violating the nofly zone. That means were going to war with russia. We are both Nuclear Armed powers. Rs we have 2,000 Nuclear Weapons on hair trigger alert. This is extremely dangerous territory that Hillary Clinton<\/a>. Good evening. Caller hi, governor johnson, ive never been registered with any party. That is how i conduct myself as citizen. Im concerned at beginning of the show the host asked you about who you would appoint for example, as foreign secretary. I think that is pretty important question to ask. I dont know if your answer was sufficient now. Im supporting Hillary Clinton<\/a> this year because i trust her. I obviously dont support trump. I trust you on social issues but im not sure that is good enough to get me to vote for you. I could totally vote for you given i live in a county where the Democratic Party<\/a> is going to win it hands down. Let me ask you two questions. What is your position on the inheritance tax and why . Then as it relates to Foreign Policy<\/a>, how would you, for example, deal with a president dutatre that is antagonizing the United States<\/a>. Host two points. Guest philippine president will see a greatly diminished tourist trade with the United States<\/a>. That is my guest. Unless he, unless he adjusts his dialogue or people get him out of office, i think the philippines will suffer as a result of tourism dropping in the philippines. That is my prediction. Ti and the things that he is doing from a human rights standpoint, i would stand up to what he is doing from a human rights standpoint. And this crackdown on drugs resulting in the deaths of a whole lot of people. So, i would certainly, i would certainly engage in the dialogue against what he is doing if i were elected president of the United States<\/a>. And back to hillary and host the inheritance tax. Guest oh, inheritance tax, thank you. Inheritance tax, that is one of those issues where lower middle class, i realize that for the most part theyre able to pass that money on because of the limits that do exist but, ideally we would not have that tax. Ideally, if we were to eliminate income tax and Corporate Tax<\/a> and replace all of it with one federal consumption tax, we would not have a deduction for social security, we would not have a deduction for unemployment. We would not have a deductionntw for medicaid, and the inheritance tax would go by the wayside and all those other, all of those other revenues would come from the proceeds of one federal consumption tax. Host one more call. This is from ricky in desoto, missouri. Good evening. Caller hi, well, this is good evening, to mr. Johnson, to you as well. Im 19 years old and im very openminded. This is my first president ial election i can pour take in. This election is insult to human intelligence. United States Government<\/a> is using our love for the land against us to create problems in our own homes. Were force fed information in schools. Kids have to compete on standardized tests to be cradled. I think backbone of your youth is youth have absolutely no say in my political positions involving important subjects involving our home and well being. Do you have anything in mind how the youth can eventually be involved into government . Guest well, i do. I will point out the obvious here is that young people, you know, 18 through 34, have only grown up with the internet. My generation, other older generations have grown up seeing everything through a filter. Because you havent seen anything through a filter, i think you really kind of cutbeco through the clutter more than any other group. Im believing that is the case because im tied for the lead among your demographic. Im hoping thats the case. So young people have really been sold or are being, right now the attempt is to sell you all a bill of goods. Expanding medicaid and medicare, doing nothing when it comes to social security. Continuing a Foreign Policy<\/a> that puts you in harms way. I think youre bearing the brunt of all of this. All of this is going to come to a crashing conclusion because we just simply can not continue to print money to cover things that we cant pay for. The horrible tax that the end of all of this, the breakdown, will be just whiplash inflation. That the money that you have saved will be worth an incredible the money you have saved will be worth a much lower amount literally overnight because that is how this is going to manifest itself. A lot more money, chasing same goods and services is going to result much, much, higher prices and that is the demise of most, most countries like ourselves. We have a chance here to deal with it but lets deal with it. It is not an option to say lets do nothing. It is not an option to expand these programs. Host let me conclude with this question for you personally. What is a bigger challenge, l running for president or scaling mount he have rest . Mount everest. Guest steve, one in the same. One foot in front of the other. Going to everest and getting to the summit. Getting to the summit was going to be a real plus. Being there, being fit enough, being in a position, staying safe, working your way, look there are a lot of factors i dont know your control but that i was there and was actually successful in endeavor, it was a process. Running for president is aent ia process. It is the same thing. One spot in front of the other. Life is all about dealing with failure. E. How we deal with failure ultimately determines success. Do you crawl up in a ball, declare yourself a victim, or, do you get up the next day with a smile on your face, recognizing that it is a process . S . Im the latter. I wake up every day with a smile. Its a process. Setbacks are what we deal with all the time. Lets deal with them. Host joining us from santa fe, new mexico, this last hour, former governor gary johnson, the 2016 libertarian nominee. Thanks for being with us here on cspan. We appreciate it. Guest steve, thank you very much. Before the final debate between Hillary Clinton<\/a> and donald trump, were looking back to past president ial debates. This saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, the 1984 debate between president Ronald Reagan<\/a> and former Vice President<\/a> walter mondale. We must understand that we are a democracy. We are a government by the people and when we move, it should be for very severe and extreme reasons that serve our National Interests<\/a> and end up with a stronger country behind us. I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponents youth and inexperience. [laughter] then the 1988 president ial debate between Vice President<\/a> george h. W. Bush and Massachusetts Governor<\/a> michael dukakis. You have a president that will work with the congress and the American People<\/a>. We can bring that deficit down steadily, 25, 30, billion dollars a year, build economic growth. Build a good strong future in america. Invest in those things we must invest in. Economic development, good jobs. I wish he would join me, as a matter of fact, in appealing to the American People<\/a> for the balanced Budget Amendment<\/a> to the federal government and for the line eight seem veto. [applause] i would like to have the line eight seem veto for the president because i think that would be extraordinarily helpful. The 2008 debate with illinois senator barack obama and arizona senator john mccain. Situation today cries out for bipartisanship. Senator obama has never taken on his leaders of his party on a single issue. And we need to reform. So lets look at our records as well as our rhetoric. That is really part of your mistrust here. So well have to make some investments but we also have to make spending cuts and what i proposed, senator mccain is proposing a whole bunch of new spending, actually im cutting more than im spending, so it will cabinet spending cut. The key is whether or not we got priorities working for you. Watch past president ial debates, saturday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Watch anytime on cspan. Org. Listen at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on the cspan radio app. Tonight we continue our look at the two leading third party g candidates. In our first hour governor gary johnson joining us from new mexico and jill stein along with her running mate. We want to look where she accepted her Green Party Nomination<\/a> in houston, texas. I am honored beyond words to be your candidate. Im so honored to be running for president of the United States<\/a> with the green party. The only party of, by and for the people. That is what we are. We have been ahead of the curve in some ways. On Climate Change<\/a>, on greenn energy, on demille atation, thattization, on on marriage equality, on free Public Higher Education<\/a> and canceling student debt. [cheering] on stopping the transpacific partnership. [cheering] on ending the war on drugs and the incarceration state. [cheering] on providing reparations for slavery and to the Indigenous People<\/a> of this nation. [cheering] on, on opposing war crimes committed by saudi arabia in yemen, and war crimes, and war crimes and occupation committed by the Israeli Government<\/a> in palestine [cheering] and so much more. E. We have been ahead of the curvee for decades. And all of us know that curve is catching up to us big time. Host issues for the green party and joining us here in our studios is dr. Jill stein, the Green Party Nominee<\/a>. Ee thank you being with us. And your running mate. Why did you select him as your running mate . Because he is a powerful and distinguished voice on behalf of human rights. On behalf of economic rights and workers rights and racial justice. And in this country we are that are locked out of jocks andd locked out of education. Im exciting to have him here, with a diverses and multiracial around multicultural education to invite in many people who are otherwise locked out of our economy and out of our political system. Host well talk about some. Issues youre involved in. F you want to build a Peoples Movement<\/a> and end unemployment and poverty. So on those two issues how do you do that . Rate a thi we incorporate a third crisis along with that unemployment, poverty and Climate Change<\/a>. We call for an Emergency Jobs Program<\/a> that will address the economic crisis but also address the Climate Crisis<\/a>. Fix them together, because they only can be fixed together because otherwise people are pitted against each other, given a choice between either the climate or jobs. Bs. That way, people always choose jobs because that is about survival today. We call for a jobs program to give everyone a good paying, living wage job as part of this emergency green energy revive theto economy, turn the tide on which will also in fact make wars for oil obsolete. This is a winwin, win. Last point about this, we get so much healthier by eliminating fossil fuels. There are 200,000 people who die every year in this country from the impact of fossil fuels alone. Alone. So on that basis eye loan, weimt save so much money elimination of fossil fuel. That Health Savings<\/a> is enough to pay for cost of green energy transition. We call for zeroing out fossil fuels. Creating all the jobs and clean renewal energy, wind, water, and sun, to basically create t 20 million jobs, zeroing out fossil fuel by 2030. Host you think that is realistic . Guest put it this way, not doing that is not compatible with survival from what the science tells us. It says in all kinds of ways,in whether you look at jim hansons recent study that says we will be seeing doubledigit feet o Sea Level Rise<\/a> as soon as 2060. A recent report put out by Oil Change International<\/a> last week said as much. We have to zero out fossil fuels in the next 17 years if we are going to avoid catastrophic Climate Change<\/a>. We have no choice. Oi we say we have to declare a national emergency, like we did when pearl harbor was bombed. You know how long it took for to us transform the economy . No one would have said that was realistic. It was a matter of national emergency. It took us six months to completely transform the economy for wartime footing. We have a new war now. The most deadly war we have ever faced. That is the war for our survival against Climate Change<\/a>. So if we could transform our economy in the second world waro in six months we can do it in the next 15 years. Host mr. Baraka, let me ask but the cycle of poverty. It is obviously very high in americas inner cities and especially high among africanamerican males and poverty and crime. What is the role of the federal government . How do you end that cycle . Guest i think the government has a very Important Role<\/a> to play in terms of expandings justice for making sure that people have the ability to live dignified lives, working with the private sector to insure that people have jobs. Where you have jobs and jobs at a living wage, then you can directly confront poverty. You can create conditions where people will live in dignity. Tackling poverty, something that various president s have tried over the last few decade is still the number one challenge to do that you have to have economy providing real justice v to people. You have to have economy that receives assistance from the federal government. This notion that the private sector or the market, the magic of the market is going to solve these problems, going to create all of the jobs that we need is kind of naive. Host youre a supporter of dr. Jill stein. Ajamu baraka. If youre supporter of Hillary Clinton<\/a> and 202if i didnt reae expectations i didnt have expectation where this would go. Im extremely gratified by the development so far. There is certainly a media blackout that held back our campaign. So we have received the least amount of prime time media coverage. In fact donald trump and Hillary Clinton<\/a> have had approximately 20,000 times more free prime time coverage on network news, yet they are not 20,000 times ahead of us. There is a strong grassroots campaign, especially among young people, millenials, who have been wiped out of jobs, who are mired in debt and who are inheriting the Climate Crisis<\/a> full on their backs. As they hear about us, they are absolutely overjoyed that we ars the campaign that is actually paying attention. That offers a bailout fornt students like democrats and republicans, they bailed out wall street, the crooks who crashed the economy. Were saying it is time to bail out victims of that economy. That word has gotten out. The Sanders Campaign<\/a>, informed members of the Sanders Campaign<\/a> who have been able to get pastn this media blackout, they too are strongly supporting our campaign at this point. Pp so it feels very exciting to me how weve been able to reach out to the africanamerican community, to the latino community, who learned that the republicans are the party of hate and fearmongering, but tho democrats are the party of deportations detentions and night raids. Feels like were in a moment off discovery about the green party, at the same time that people are more fed up than ever, and the two democratic and republican candidates are the mostdislikedm and untrusted president ial candidates in our history. We deserve open debates. And that is what the American People<\/a> are clamoring for. And i think, you know it is not over until it is over. Were still pushing for the right of american voters, not only to vote but also to know who they can vote for and what are the Critical Issues<\/a> that really need to be discussed in this election. Host your names appear on how many state ballots . Guest i think we have 48 at this point. Host let me ask you about one Foreign Policy<\/a> issue. Youve been critical of Hillary Clinton<\/a> on syria and isis. She bears a lot of responsibility for what is happening there. How so . Guest there is no question that isis a part of the major problem in syria. Lets acknowledge syria is very complicated war going on. There is a civil war and a proxy war among many foreign powers in syria. It is also a war over who gets to run their pipeline through syria, but part of that mess is isis and isis in turn grew out of the chaos of iraq. And isis also grew out of the chaos of libya. Hillary clinton approved that war in iraq but she also led the charge into libya. So she has everything to do, and her poor judgment has everything to do with the chaos of around the middle east now were seeing full force in syria. Whats really frightening now, steve, to me, is that hillary has been pushing for a long time, but all the stronger now, she is calling for a nofly zone in syria, and what that really means is not only bombing syriaa and taking out all of the antiaircraft positions, which means bombing Population Centers<\/a> in syria, but it also means shooting airplanes out of the sky who are violating the nofly zone. That means were going to war with russia. We are both Nuclear Armed<\/a> powers. Rs we have 2,000 Nuclear Weapons<\/a> on hair trigger alert. This is extremely dangerous territory that Hillary Clinton<\/a> is rushing headlong into. Host going to ask some. Same questions that were also asked in first two president ial debates. Let me ask you specificallye about the tax code and tax provisions. One of the questions from the participants at washington university, mr. Baraka, would you change the tax system thatre wealthier americans would pay their fair share . How would you fix it, if at all . Guest were advocates after tax system truly progressive. To one geared towards assuring that the individuals who have more wealth are paying their fair share. That people who are workingclass people, poor people, that they have tax relief. We say that were going toief. Eliminate taxes for anyone, any individual making less thans 25,000, and for families making less than 50,000. We want to see a tax code that reflects values of the most progressive values of this country. One in which the rich are able to, and are required to pay their fair share. It is really outrageous that we have not only individuals but corporations that are able to fully escape paying taxes here in this country. So, the scandal of a donald trump is only a scandal that people are not aware of the fact that there are many, many more Donald Trumps<\/a> in the system. We want to eliminate that. To make sure that we have thewe kind of revenue we need to address the social issues that need to be addressed here in this country. Host one of leading topics last hour and apparently this hour, focusing on college education. This is a question from austin, with a question for you, dr. Stein. Talk about your plan for College Funding<\/a> . Will this include housing, food, books, et cetera . Guest great question, austin. So two main planks to our platform on college education. We need to end the debt, student debt. It is predatory debt. It is very hard to get out of it, what sense does it make to throw an entire generation into debt so they have a shot at Financial Security<\/a> . In the 21st century, you need to have a college educatio if youre going to survive in the 21st century economy. So in the same way that we provided free college, Free High School<\/a> education in the 20th century, we need to now provide Free College Education<\/a> in the 21st century. So going back, that means, bailing out the students. We bailed out wall street, who crashed the economy with their waste, fraud and abuse. So it is time to bailout the students. St bailing out wall street costs 16 trillion. Eople bailing out young people in debt costs 1. 3 trillion. There are variety of ways to to come up with the money. Tax wall street, tax Justice System<\/a> that ajamu was referring to. Small sales tax on wall street. Taxing wall street transactions attain any percentage, like. 2 or. 3 would be enough to generate hundreds of billions of dollars per year which would be used for that student bailout. The finally paying for Public Higher Education<\/a>, remember this, it pays for itself. We know that from the g. I. Bill. For every dollar we put in, we get back 7 in return. So consider this an investment. Again, that money and it would be about 100 billion per year, that could come from among othea things, scaling back on our bloated and dangerous military budget, which is gobbling up more than 50 of our discretionary budget right now is going to these wars. That are literally threatening our lives and survival and that includes poverty, Climate Change<\/a> and war. And then finally i would say i am a mother on fire. Having seen that are Younger Generation<\/a> currently does not have a future between Climate Change<\/a>, expanding war and this threat of Nuclear Weapons<\/a>. Th mikhail gorbachev, the former head of the soviet union during moe cold war, said last week we are not at a more dangerous point and weve ever been in history, that we are closer to nuclear war between the u. S. And russia. This debate is not acceptable. This is not something i as a mother can sit back and watch. My history is working with citizen groups, with ordinary s people so that we ourselves can improve legislation and regulation in order to improve our lives, our health and our economy. Married joining us in pennsylvania. Evening. Caller good evening. First i would like to say thank you to jill stein running for office. Between the choices that we have either that you in the best position to take our country to a higher standard your my question is, what steps will you take in addressing Police Brutality<\/a> and Police Reform<\/a> in this country . Guest really criticalderful question. This issue at a crisis level, and theres much that we can do about it. The crisis of Police Violence<\/a> is really the tip of the iceberg,sy crisis of systemic racism. Both in terms of jobs and higher unemployment among the africanamerican community, disparities in school and in education and in health, and indicators of health and longevity all of that. So this is a pervasive crisis to start with the Police Violence<\/a>, Everything Community<\/a> deserves a Police Review<\/a> board and anin independent investigator so that every case of death at the hands of police can be investigated so that perpetrators can be held accountable. N we need to transform the culture of policing so that it is not about confrontation and broken windows policy of policing, but instead is focused on deescalation and we move towards a form of policing that is not confrontational and based on use of force and s. W. A. T. Teams and recycling of access military equipment and so when. We need to get back to support in the form of communityng policing and spend less money on policing and more money on actually addressing the drivers of community poverty, discontent, crime, disenfranchised youth, and ensure that were good schools and the school to prisonhi pipeline, and the highstakes testing so were teaching for lifetime learning. These are some of the many ways we can begin to address this crisis of racism in our communities. Host another policy did with north korea. He would like to what you feel about your points regarding the increasing threat from north korea estimate great. Number one, we actually need a peace treaty a north korean peninsula. Right now north korea feels very much embattled and likely could be invaded at any moment. You can kind of see why it is that north korea is clinging to Nuclear Weapons<\/a>. They feel like they are extremely vulnerable. We need a peace treaty we need to demilitarize the korean peninsula, and then we need to begin to move forward through dialogue as opposed to locking horns in this confrontation that seems to provoke on a more radical behavior on the part of north korea. And yes, we need to bring china in august as well because china likewise is not happy with the extreme and erratic behavior of north korea. We need to adopt a policy of engagement as opposed to threats and confrontation. When weve made progress with north korea in the past its i been through sitting down and having dialogue. Not by having military exercises on their borders and flying planes and sort of mock Nuclear Weapons<\/a> drills on their border. Host what is americas greatest threat . Guest i think america has many threats right now. Among the i certainly think Climate Change<\/a> cannot be dismissed. I think that is really the worlds greatest threat right now. Ion, ame in addition america is very much at risk from these expanding wars that are bankrupting us, that are taking more than half of our budget and which also consume almost half of your income taxes now are going to these wars which are creating failed states, mass refugeee migrations, and worst terrorist threats house of representatives same question, what is the role of the u. S. Military . What should it be . It definitely should not be the role of just defending a 1 . As the expression of the national interest. So we have to have a Foreign Policy<\/a> that really represents the best values and interests of all of us in this country. To the military is in place too provide security but what we arg seeing with Foreign Policy<\/a> over the last 16 years has been the military plane april that has resulted in more insecurity for all americans. We have to shift the direction of u. S. Foreign policy. We have to make sure that the military that fits the needs of the current period. We dont believe the ball just over 600 billion isis justifiable. The budget. We have to shift our values if we want to Real National<\/a> and international security. Host lets go to david joining us from pennsylvania. We welcome you. On good evening. Go ahead, please. Caller dr. Stein, you favor slave reparations and other reparations to some estimations as high ast 1 trillion. H are you not worried they giving this much money way to one Minority Group<\/a> would insist on racial tensions . S . Im asking this question as an africanamerican male. Guest its a very important question, david. Theres currently legislation in congress that would establish a commission to look at the various forms of reparations could take. These are exactly the kinds of questions that need to be debated. T but i think there is no question that this country was really built on the blood, sweat and tears and enslavement of an entire race of people who were brought here for the purpose of building this country and building our economy. Let me also say that the consequences of slavery didnt simply end with the emancipation proclamation. Slavery evolved into lynchings, jim crow, segregation, the waryn and drugs, redlining of communities, mass incarcerationt and now Police Violence<\/a>. The disparities are unconscionable and not going away. In many ways theyve actually, gotten worse over the past four to eight years. I think its important weve got to sit down, we need a National Conversation<\/a> about this. We are not only calling for true reparations, we are calling for a truth and Reconciliation Commission<\/a> to address not only bias and racism based on, or directed towards b africanamericans, but also racism towards leigh kenos, racism towards indigenous americans, and i should say Indigenous People<\/a> in general. I think we need to face these issues headon. We need to acknowledge that there is a debt to be repaid, and we need to move forward through a Reparations Committee<\/a> to study the issue in particular and through a truth and Reconciliation Commission<\/a> that brings art, music and our storytelling to their so that we as a society can come to terms with this. Theres an illusion that were in a postracial society right now which we most definitely are not. We need to share who we are,it what we are going through and how do we come together as a community to go forward prospeco the other point, do you think it would create another racialould divide between locks and whitesc and hispanics in this country . Guest and i think thats why we need to sit down and actually address this as a broader issue first. Thats the role of reparations and cory. This is the bill that is currently sitting in congress right now that would allow us to dialogue about how this should be done. Reparations should also be paid to into jesus americans. How do we sit down and look indigenous americans. The debts that are owed, and would also call for this truth and Reconciliation Commission<\/a> so we can put on the table. This is not just about bias and hatred against africanamericans but against our other disenfranchised groups as well. We need to put on the table and then we need to get past it. Host let me quickly bring you in on this issue. I think its important for us to recognize the process ofpa repair is a process in which everyone impacted would have to be part of that process. It is a process that will only come about as a consequence of the kind of fundamental change that we have to fight for. I dont believe, we dont believe we are going to any process of repair into current source configuration of power, that this process of reparation will come about as a consequence of a Peoples Movement<\/a>. Within that movement is successful we will have a process in place in which everyone who have been harmed, has been disentangled from this history, as we disconnect and put ourselves in a place where we can transform the society, in whatever process we can put in place to which everyone can address their longstanding historical issues with your thee state of the u. S. Experience host the lets turn to health care. Is a position yourself and two sons who are doctors, wondering how you would fix obamacare, the Affordable Care<\/a> act and if youou can be specific . Guest james, there is a wonderful fix. Its a fix has been discovered by every other invest nationalized nation out there, basically for us to would be an improved medicare for all systems. Weve already got medicare. This means we drop the age off eligibility down to actually before birth, during pregnancy, so that you are covered from cradle to grave, from head to toe whether its your Mental Health<\/a> care, your pharmaceutical, your Reproductive Health<\/a> care, your psychological care. Its all included, and your care is between you and your physician, and your physician in your choice so that youre no longer dictated to by an Insurance Company<\/a> which is looking to shortchange you in order to maximize its profits. 25 of their Health Care Dollars<\/a> is going into insurance, into bureaucracy come into paperpushing and waste. Instead under medicare its about 2 rather than 25 that goes into overhead. That huge infusion of cash is what allows us to massively expand coverage so that everyone is covered for the same dollars that we are paying right now but instead every dollar goes into health care, not into health profiteering. Host our conversation with dr. Jill stein who is the Green Party Nominee<\/a> and alamu baraka. This is being streamed on our wedding tendencies been rita. Rt jim from texas, support of donald trump. Good evening. Caller good evening. I have a question for jill iain. Did you think the 20 trillion debt is a big problem . If so, how would you decrease it . Guest thank you for asking, jim. What weve learned over the past decade really but especially in recent years is that if you try to make severe cuts like in government programs, socalled austerity, it only increases the debt and economies dont recover. The real way to recover is the way weve recovered from the great depression. Even the imf, the International Monetary<\/a> fund, and the Federal Reserve<\/a> now have also come on board and issue reports saying that in order to get out of debt, the best way to do that is actually by investing in growing our economy. Its like in the second world war, the way we grew out of the incredible debt was by investing in the economy. We outgrew the debt. Thats what we need to do now. Thats what we are calling for in the Green New Deal<\/a> which is like an antidote. Its like therapy for nafta which set our jobs overseas andc closed factories. Instead, we would be investing in American Workers<\/a> and in jobs and in creating the Green Economy<\/a> which is the technology and installations, the energy, food system, public . He guest , you name it, all those things that createal 20 million jobs that allows also to defeat Climate Change<\/a> and grow our way out of this debt. Host a question on Edward Snowden<\/a> from kevin. Would you partner whistleblowers and encourage Government Transparency<\/a> . Guest yes definitely. Whistleblowers are critical. They expose the doings inside o our government. They provide transparency thatpr we should have. Indicates of Edward Snowden<\/a>, he exposed how we were being spied on, all of us being spied on without justification and without a warrant, without a legal process. This was being done behind our back. In exposing this he help stimulate congress to actually take action, hasnt gone far enough but it has begun. I think Edward Snowden<\/a> is heroic for exposing the violation of our basic constitutional rights. So we owe them a debt of gratitude and i would certainly pardon him and actually seek to bring them into our administration to be able to advise on both keeping security at the same time that we respect our constitutional right to privacy. In the words of benjamin franklin, those who do away with privacy in the name of security with wind up losing them both. Host critics will say he broke the law. Guest he broke the law but for a very specific purpose, which was to expose the violation of our very constitutional right. I know when people go into service for government, they take a vow of loyalty. They take an oath of loyalty, especially in the security services. They take an oath of loyalty to protect and defend the constitution of the United States<\/a>. So yes, he broke laws but in order to defend a higher law,or which is the constitution. People will argue that we did should be covered under theistlb whistleblower act. Yet instead the obamae obam administration chose to throw the book at him. So this is a political decision. We believe you have toelieve individuals who have the courage to expose government mischief, and that is exactly what Edward Snowden<\/a> did. Host dont you worry your the of government mischief may be different from your view, and then you have these individuals who have been cleared asat National Study<\/a> advisors have this information and then make the decision not to follow thehe law . Thats a determination the American People<\/a> need to make. Why should Chelsea Manning<\/a> be sitting in prison for 35 years for exposing clear criminal behavior . So if the state is allowed to determine who can expose information, then we have a real problem with democracy. Host lets move on to steve from oshkosh, wisconsin,e supporter of Hillary Clinton<\/a>. Your question . Caller im actually very sympathetic with the green party and jill stein, but i believe that it would be irresponsible in this election to turn to be on, to keep yourself on the ballot in battleground states where you may have the effect of turning the election over to donald trump, just as most political scientists believe that ralph nader turned over the election in florida prospect based on that point, stay on the line, you said you want votersvs to invest their vote. 6. 0 to meet and we will followup with you with your question, steve. Guest steve, its really important to look at where we are going. Its not just a moment in time but where has the strategy of fighting for the last taken as with all the last 10 or 12 years computed want the expanding war, you did what the meltdown of the climate, you did want to offshore of our jobs, the capital immigrants with a massive bailout from wall street. Thats what weve gotten. By the drills. Because we as part of interest about ourselves to be silent and voted for the lesser evil. The lesser evil doesnt solve the problem. The Obama Administration<\/a> even with two houses of congress did all of these things that were as bad as george bush any case theu climate, blew the roof off of fossil fuel emissions. All of the above gave us some Renewable Energy<\/a> but a completely amplified and intensified also to production which is an incredibly destructive to the climate. He the wars have gotten bigger. We are now bombing seven countries. Its important to look at not just the rhetoric public at the track record at the reality is the lesser evil and the greatere evil is a race to the bottom. Even donald trump and the righte wing extremism grossed out the policies of the clintons, in particular nafta which are jobs overseas, and wall street deregulation which blew 9 million jobs up into spoke. Thats whats creating this right wing extremism. And vote for Hillary Clinton<\/a> isnt would fix it. One last point, which is this, that its now Hillary Clinton<\/a> wants to start an air war with russia over syria by calling for a nofly zone. We have 2000 Nuclear Missiles<\/a> on hair trigger alert and a kill gorbachev comes the former premier of the soviet union, you think we are closer to nuclearth war than weve ever been. Under Hillary Clinton<\/a> we could slide into nuclear war very quickly from her declared policy in three. I will not sleep well at night if donald trump is elected but i shall not sleep well at night if Hillary Clinton<\/a> is elected. For joy we have another choice other than these two candidates for both promoting lethal policies. On the issue of war and Nuclear Weapons<\/a> and the potential for nuclear war, its hillarys policies which are much scarier than donald trump who does not want to go to war with russia. He wants to seek votes of working together which is the root we need to follow, not to go into confrontation and nuclear war with russia. Host lets go back to steve in wisconsin to your quick followup. Caller i just want to ask jill to take her to our issue of taken off of the ballot inin battleground states so shef doesnt turn it over to donaldod trump . Guest steve bell are you okay with a nuclear war . How are you going to feel before going to nuclear war six months now, we could be in a nuclear war with russia thanks to hillarys Foreign Policy<\/a>. We have seen what hillary can do in libya. She says what she wants to do in syria. Its important not to drink the koolaid. Dont just the victim of the b propaganda. You really need to look at the track record and then make a principled decision. If you decide that you dont want to vote for me, then donto vote for me. But voters have said they dont like those two candidates. These of the most disliked andbe untested candidates in our history. They do want to be told the good little boys and girls and keep voting for these two parties instead of throwing them under the bus. As deep as mentioned what we say is the biggest wasted vote is a vote for more of what is throwing her under the bus. Invest your vote in a true social movement for real change that will put people, planet and peaceful for profit. Host we talked about the Supreme Court<\/a>, the type of justice as you would put on the court. Who would they be . Guest what we need on the Supreme Court<\/a> are justices who recognize that money is not speech and that corporations are not people who are willing to stand up not only to stop Citizens United<\/a> but to stop the rift that began even before Citizens United<\/a> with other Supreme Court<\/a> decisions that said if youre rich you get to buy out the political system. We want really Supreme Court<\/a> justices were on the side of people, not undecided big money. Also justices that will stand up to defend immigrant rights, that will vigorously defend voterer rights against voter id laws and other efforts to disenfranchise voters come to take away our constituent right to vote. And also Supreme Court<\/a> justices that support womens rights, and womens rights to choose as well as workers rights. Host is there a justice currently on the court that fits that model . Guest not in my opinion. Host let me ask you about the issue black lives matter. Youve been involved in that effort. What would you say to those people who say all lies matter . Of course all lies matter of the black lives matter demand is a reflection of the fact that in reality, black lives do not matter here in the United States<\/a> and lily in most parts of thee world. So the slogan in the movement ig an attempt to ensure that people understand that there will be a struggle to ensure that black lives to matter in reality. Its not saying the black lives matter more than anybody else, but it does say that black people have value, that black people are not going to allow themselves to be victimized by a policy statement that appearse not to have any concern for their lives. It says there needs to be programs that will reflect the fact that if the states sit black lives matter, it will beac reflected in policies. It says that for there to be real social justice here in this country, that you have to have a society in which, indeed legalize in the valley of black life is reflected. Host lets go to john from maryland, a supporter of dr. Jill stein. Ood ev good evening. Caller thank you, dr. Stein, for everything you guys are doing. Fo i just have a question. What specific strategies are you guys implementing to battle the media blackout that is collusion from both sides and the media together to suppress any third party, let alone someone as progressive and outspoken to power as you guys are . Another followup on that, what other strategies can you recommend for your supporters to help spread your message . Guest thank you so much, john. Counts r on both counts regarding the media blackout and generally supporting our campaign, please go to our website, jill 2016 that, or go to our social media which is dr. Jill stein, and join the team in particular join our campaign for open debate. Sign up as a volunteer, make a donation, whatever you can afford, 29 for stein is like the signature donation for bernie sanders, 27 that weve been getting a lot of. Join the team because we are at a moment in history right now with the house of cards politically is falling down and people are looking for an option. I take it as a great conflict that the media is so afraid of us that they are working at Great Lengths<\/a> to try to silence us. And our campaign above all others has really been shut out. 76 of americans are clamoring for an open debate. Theres one more debate to go to we are still going to push hard. Democracy now yesterday featured a response is to the debate questions. You can help let people knowhe about that. You can do that on our website or on democracy now s website. When the team. The wind is at our back and that 5 threshold, nearly 5 in many of the polls which by the way did not that millennials, they just tap likely voters when they, in fact, be running a good deal better than what the pollsw show. Get t if you get to 5 you have a whole lot of Financial Support<\/a> as a legitimate party then, which would be a real game changer and enable us to build. The other thing to remember is there are 43 million young people right now who are trapped in student loan debt. Our campaign is the only way out. Just by spreading the word among young people who were holdingg student debt, that is enough to win the election if the word gets out. 43 Million People<\/a> in that, that is a winning plurality of the vote. So get the word out, and we say reject the lesser evil, fight w for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because they do. Host if elected would you fly on air force one . Guest yes husband admitted that because it uses a lot of fuel. Guest yes, thats right. But we would certainly be pushing for innovations in the air, Light Industry<\/a> to move towards more sustainable fuel and air flight. We are not quite there yet it will take a good deal ofea research to get there. Certainly when there are other options we would do that. If you are president you need to travel. You need to be there at the table and i would survey doon t that. Ctions on the other and there are many Energy Reductions<\/a> that we would take both in the widest but a aa matter of National Policy<\/a> as the. Host on the issue climate and energy, is there one country that is a role model that you think is needs to emulate . Guest there are several. Germany for example, thanks to the german green party. Jeremy just adopted germany just adopted the goal of teasing out fossil fuelbased automobiles by 2030. They been able to transitionrg much of their Energy Supply<\/a> to solar and wind. And i believe the netherlands is doing very well as well. Centered by making it a priority and having a green party thats part of government they been able to move forward. Host dakota has thision. Question. Which individuals would you consider in your cabinet . Ur if you could be specific. Guest for example, on secretary of state, we would certainly consider someone likeb Medea Benjamin<\/a>, who is already a world traveler and an advocate e for just and peaceful relations with other countries. That is Medea Benjamin<\/a> of code pink. There are a variety of distinguished economic advisers from alan brown who wrote the web of debt to richard wolf who is a renowned economist, to jacs rasmus who is a labor economist that we would consider of the treasury as well as for head of the Economic Council<\/a> advisors and for chair of the Federal Reserve<\/a>. Host new york, supporter of donald trump. Good evening. Caller [inaudible]also also people [inaudible] host we couldnt hear the second part. The militarization of Police Forces<\/a> around the country and discussed the issue we talked with you earlier. I think its one of the Biggest Challenges<\/a> we have, that over the course of the last decade or so, we get something w like 4 billion worth of military hardware transferred from the federal government to various Police Forces<\/a> on the state and local level. The result has been a tremendous militarization of the Police Forces<\/a>. Along with that hardware has been a shift in the attitude and the training of these militaryry forces, these Police Forces<\/a>. We believe that has to stop, that theres no justification for that kind of hardware to bek transferred to local leesl forces. Police unless there is another agenda. The police are supposed to be in place to protect and serve. The question becomes who are they protecting and what a serving . Its clear they are not serving and protecting the vast majoritr of black and poor people in this country. We want to see a reversal of that process. The courageous organizers of black lives matter met with president obama, and asked for the program, the 1033 program to stop. He refused. And with some modifications but the program continues. At along with the training of the very Police Forces<\/a> by what we consider to be repressive governments like israel. Host lets go to anchorage, alaska. Good evening. Caller good evening. First off i want to thank you for your efforts in the political spectrum to make things better. I have a question that is in two parts. One is directed toward cspan and one of course is directed towards the steinbaraka teen. That is this, i would like to see a debate that would have all president ial candidates but i would like to see dr. Jill stein comments, alamu barakas comments as well. I dont think the entire country is aware of the value added interest of information that yot cant provide. On a staunch supporter of your campaign. 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