so what do real vermonters do? >> they want to do what they damn well please and they'll let you do what you damn well please as long as you don't interfere with them. >> reporter: this is the town most people assume is quintessential vermont. let's assume it looks the way that it always did and the people think like they always did. but here as in elsewhere, videos in the college store, cafes in former cornfields, factory outlets in farm towns. more than half the new immigrants live in burlington, vermont's largest city. most adapted but some didn't, wanted vermont to adapt to them. that worries bernie sanders who came here from brooklyn and has been mayor for six years. >> people come up and know so much and they want to show us how we can be just like they were back home. unfortunately they left back home because they didn't like it back home. >> bernie sanders 1987 in that clip defending the honor, the way of life of small town vermont. but around that time bernie sanders also started to show some political amb

sale's revenue for products sold in vermont. if companies decide to no longer sell productness vermont or any other state that has state mandates because it's too costly for them to comply, it is the consumer, not the company, that loses. that's my logic would you agree? >> i do. and is a mentioned in my statement the grocery manufacturers are very high-volume, low-margin and do everything they can to keep very efficient and effective manufacturing operations and distribution operations up in the time the consumer consumes the product. securing the supply chain is important and they everything they can to make it i as efficient as possible sew we can pass on the savings. >> what are the practical impacts of disstate by state man date and why is the national standard in the best interests for consumers. >> it would literally mean manufacturing lines would have to stop and start and stop and start over and over again to change labeling, change packaging, create separate inventer toes of the same product, essentially, and ensure th

>> grace was born 10 we third, 1879 in burlington, vermont. one of vermont's larger cities. you probably know vermette does not have very many large cities. she was an only child and her very middle-class parents could afford to send her onto the university of vermont. she graduated in 1902 and immediately set out for northampton, massachusetts to be trained to teach deaf children in the oral method. which is a very, very tough way of teaching. she then taught until her marriage to calvin coolidge, a young lawyer in town. her mother had wanted her to stay in burlington so she could find a nice, handsome doctor for her, but grace said you was going to northampton, the home of smith college where there weren't hardly any men. but she found the one guy in town. they lived in a two family house in north hampton and raised two sons there. she stayed at home while her husband commuted by train to

the phones in both my washington and vermont offices never stopped ringing in vermont, every one of my eight staff people did nothing else all day but respond to called, thousands of calls, and e-mails. the senate television web site crashed because of the huge number of people who wanted to watch the speech live, online, and apparently c-span2 had an exceptional day. according to "the new york times" my speech was the most twittered event in the world on that day. what a distinction. never knew it. most twittered event. [applause] >> some day i will learn what twitter is all about. there were front page stories in newspapers all around the country, and the speech was covered widely in the international media. the number of people who signed up as friends on my facebook page doubled the previous total in one day and business to my web site went sky high. some journalists clammed that obama had hand unschedule impromptu press conference with former president bill clinton, who defended the tax deal in order to divert media attention away from what i was doing on the senate floor. just tu

in vermont. three states have passed labeling laws. several others are considering them. there have been referendums that almost passed in california, and it's reflecting this groundswell of desire that consumers have to know what's in the products that they're buying. now, i'm going to play a little unfair here, mr. chairman, because i am here today to give mr. pompeo and mr. butterfield a gmo-free-labeled pint of the most nutritious product on planet earth, and that's ben and jerry's ice cream. and this is labeled, and it sells. people love this. i yield back. >> gentleman's time's expired. the chair recognizes the chair of the full committee, mr. upton, for five minutes for an opening statement. >> this morning we continue our examination of the role biotechnology plays in our nation's farms and in our food supply. our food, as we know, is literally our lifeline. it is important for the public to be engaged. it is the job of this subcommittee to establish a record based on the facts and the sc

to get to work in vermont and all over rule america you drive. what happens, as you you have millions of working people, many of whom i've seen a decline in their wages and now are saying paying $4 or more per gallon of gas, that's coming right out of their paycheck and it's making their very sorry economic situation today even worse. here's what you have with gas prices, let me just back it up a little bit to our friends on wall street, when you talk to people people are very angry. there is a pole today becomes a gallup poll and what the poll showed for the first time is that people now believe there kids are going to have a lower standard of living that they do. for the very first time. my parents never had money at all, my dad worked his whole life, didn't make a lot of money, lived in a small apartment but their dream was like everybody else's dream. their parents dreamed their parents stream that their kids will do better than you so all over this country people are saying you know what my kid is going to have less education than i did, he'

when we come back, a vermont community that says no to the f-35. >> we go now to vermont where activists are fighting an air force decision to base f-35s at a national guard unit beginning in just five years. never before has the air force put a brand new fighter bomber at a commercial airport. usually they go to air force bases in remote areas. they do that purposely because new aircraft crash more. >> the plane she's talking about is the f-35 fighter. from its stealthy design to the millions of lines of computer code inside that act as an artificial intelligence, it's being hailed as the future of combat aviation. result.but many residents see it as a real danger. >> the burlington airport is not a suitable venue for the f-35. the airport is a commercial airport. it is not a military base. the people were here first. >> roseanne is a leader of a group fighting to keep the f-35 out of her local airport at burlington vermont. burlington is home to the vermont air national guard. it's scheduled to receive 18 f-35s by the year 2020. it will be the first air national guard unit in america t

. >> grace was born january 3rd, 1879 in burlington, vermont. one of vermont's larger cities. you probably know vermont doesn't have very many large cities. she was an only child. and since she was an only child, her very middleclass parents could afford to send her to the university of vermont for her education. as she graduated in 1902 and immediately set out for north hampton, massachusetts to begin to teach deaf children in the aural method, which is a tough way of teaching. she taught at the clark school for the deaf until her marriage to a lawyer. her mother wanted her to stay in burlington so she could find a nice doctor for her. but she was going home to smith college where there weren't many men. but she found the one man. they stayed at home raising two sons where her husband commuted to the ledge shaper. when calvin was tapped to run for vice president and won, they relocated to the willard hotel in washington, d.c. and i think we'll hear through our discussion today what happened at the white house next. >> thank you. annette dunlap, another dear friend of hours, h

ourre seeing millions of brothers and sisters in iowa, vermont, all over this country. three jobs -- jobs to put food on the table. all of the new wealth, going to the top 1%. that is going to change. we need an economy that works for working people, not a handful of billionaires. let me tell you some about this campaign finance system that we have today. it is a corrupt system. citizens united will go down in history as one of the worst decisions made by supreme court. let me repeat a promise that i have made to either crowd. throughominee of mine the supreme court will get that position unless he or she pledges to make certain that citizens united is overturned. and when we try to understand why it is that so many of our family members, our friends, our two orrs are working in three jobs in order to cobble together an income and some health care, the answer is wages in our country for many people are much too low. and that is why we have to $7.25 minimum wage -- we have to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, $15 an hour. what we understand also is when we live in

burlington is home to the vermont air national guard. it's scheduled to receive 18 f-35s by the year 2020. it will be the first air national guard unit in america to get the plane, replacing a unit of aging f-16s. the burlington airport has homes built right up to its perimeter. there are towns on both ends of its runway . a working class community of some 7,000 people. >> i have been here in the backyards of people who live here. and it is astounding to see how low the planes are over their homes. you could recognize people in the cockpit, that's how low they are. >> to get a better sense of the concerns, consider the record of the f-16. in its introduction in 1975, the u.s. air force lost more than 320 of them in crashes and mishaps out of a fleet of 2,230. that's one in seven. >> if something happens with takeoff and landing of the f-35 it is probable that it will land in this area here. it's a recipe for a disaster. it's almost horrendous to about. >> contrast burlington's airport with luke air force base in arizona where the air for

to get to work in vermont and all over rule america you drive. what happens, as you you have millions of working people, many of whom i've seen a decline in their wages and now are saying paying $4 or more per gallon of gas, that's coming right out of their paycheck and it's making their very sorry economic situation today even worse. here's what you have with gas prices, let me just back it up a little bit to our friends on wall street, when you talk to people people are very angry. there is a pole today becomes a gallup poll and what the poll showed for the first time is that people now believe there kids are going to have a lower standard of living that they do. for the very first time. my parents never had money at all, my dad worked his whole life, didn't make a lot of money, lived in a small apartment but their dream was like everybody else's dream. their parents dreamed their parents stream that their kids will do better than you so all over this country people are saying you know what my kid is going to have less education than i did, he'

>> grace was born 10 we third, 1879 in burlington, vermont. one of vermont's larger cities. you probably know vermette does not have very many large cities. she was an only child and her very middle-class parents could afford to send her onto the university of vermont. she graduated in 1902 and immediately set out for northampton, massachusetts to be trained to teach deaf children in the oral method. which is a very, very tough way of teaching. she then taught until her marriage to calvin coolidge, a young lawyer in town. her mother had wanted her to stay in burlington so she could find a nice, handsome doctor for her, but grace said you was going to northampton, the home of smith college where there weren't hardly any men. but she found the one guy in town. they lived in a two family house in north hampton and raised two sons there. she stayed at home while her husband commuted by train to boston to the legislature. when calvin was tapped to run for vice president, they relocated to the willard hotel in washington dc. i think we'll hear through our discussions today what ha

javier: i love vermont. senator sanders: you get up there? i invite you all to come up. [laughter] i will tell you a story, if i might. in 2007, as i recall, i learned about a horrific situation in florida. a small town near naples. most of the tomatoes used by fast food restaurants, this is where they are grown. i went there to stand with the undocumented tomato workers who are being exploited in the most horrific manner. because they are undocumented, they really have no legal rights. front-page story in the local paper, you know what the crime this man was charged with? slavery. slavery. in the year 2007. he was holding workers voluntarily. people were getting horrendously low wages. i went to the homes there. overcrowding it is then shared by the late ted kennedy, a good friend of mine. the impact of that, along with a lot of other efforts, was to improve the wages in standard of living of those workers. as senator of vermont i did not have to do that. it did not give me any votes back home. i did it does it was the right thing to do. when undocumented workers get ex

when the flood of 1927 came, it did devastate vermont. and she and her husband toured e the state afterward.ood they waved at people. their train stopped many times. one time calvin coolidge said vermont this is a state i love.t that's where he got his bride y grace. born in burlington. and grace turned to the where newspaper men and said, did you. get that? that was really good.o the and she was right.lly she also devoted herself to deaf children. she hosted helen keller at the white house.ite ho she and her husband have the use thrill of reading charles linworth when he came back from europe.back calvin sent a destroyer to pick him up. i thought that was wonderful.woe and the coolidges had introduced the morrows and the lindbergs. we know what came out of that was a marriage. and they were e very happy about that.marria in terms of the press, grace did not try to cultivate press v relations.er she did say to the press, leave my boys alone. the children of the first family, and we have seen that continually, should be left she alone. but

and the senator from vermont has been gaining momentum. a favorite supporter rallying cry is, feel the burn. >> this campaign is sending a message to the billionaire class. yes, we have the guts to take you on. >> on the surface the 73-year-old may not look like a political fire brand, but he has a history of standing out and standing up for what he believes in. he calls himself a democratic socialist and is the longest serving independent member of congress in u.s. history. >> bernie sanders is really one of the most interesting characters in the senate. he is within of two independents, historically called himself a socialist. and yet he has been able to work across the aisle in recent years with republicans to solve some really major problems. >> born in brooklyn to jewish parents he want to james madison high school, became a socialist and acted in the civil rights movement. in vermont heap lost his first run as a political office. and then elected may your of burlington by ten votes. next, came the u.s. congress. but it was in the sen

senator for vermont and was elected as an independent. please welcome to the soapbox stage senator bernie sanders. [cheering] thank you!s: [applause] nine and a half months ago, we began to campaign. everyone said this campaign was a joke. but the american people are ready to take on the economic establishment of america. three and a half months have gone by. we have had huge crowds all over iowa, new hampshire, california, oregon. you name it. and when people ask me why, i the american people are saying enough is enough. [cheering] belongs to all of us. not just a handful of billionaires. [cheering] [applause] going, i want to wish a happy birthday to an institution. it is called social security. it is 80 years old. let me be clear. virtually all the republican candidates, in one form or another, one to cut social security. [booing] going to we are not let them do that. [cheering] when we have seniors in this country trying to get by on 12,000 dollars, $13,000 a year. disabled people are not able to put enough food on the table. no, we a

sanders: now i live in burlington, vermont, an hour away from the canadian border. guarantee health care to every people. in the u.k., they guarantee health care to all of their people. germany, france, scandinavia does it. every major doe country does it accept us and that is why i strongly believe in a medicare for all. [applause] mr. sanders: i believe in single payment but that is not what congress believes in, but the congress did pass, and the president did find, the affordable care act. a modest but important step forward. by expanding eligibility for medicaid, millions of americans now have health insurance who previously lacked it. that is a good thing. [applause] the affordable care act, for example, has cut arkansas' uninsured population almost in half. it has reduced the number of an uninsured in kentucky from 20% to 12%. in south carolina, in south carolina, over 200,000 people would gain health insurance if the governor and legislature approved the expansion. [applause] mr. sanders: not only would several hundred thousand people gain health insurance,

biden, i think people voted for him like they did with bernie sanders and vermont -- in vermont. he has been brought on issues for a generation. other question is are we going to get joe biden or his body double? i don't think the democrats understand why he should be president. obama has created so many problems with the economy and foreign affairs. maybe he will run so he can purposely lose and then go to the grassroots and do what they do best, violent protests in the country. i just think biden should not run. if he was going to be up there, be the person who takes the bullet for the party for the next four years -- then i would say go for it. host: mary has this, are we assuming that senator warren would run because biden talked to her -- i don't think she will run as vp. ,e spoke with scott walker outlining his alternatives. [video clip] you see a there, in addition to the credits and incentives, we allow people to buy health insurance anywhere, in any state. in the past, you have been restricted to state lines. we allow you to buy anywhere. in any state. finally, we make s

so i spent time at a place border of manchester, vermont in up state new york. i chose that because i had a pork chop from there years earlier which sort of got me interested in pork, and it was so good, it was like the perfect pork chop. it wasn't -- it was rich, it wasn't pail white meat. great flavor. really good prime steak than a pork, which you think of -- it turned out that that came from flying pigs. well, i'll start there. i followed a pig for a year who lived there. first of all, there were no gessation, a lower area that had a small swampy area and sort of an open area. it was like a pig spa. you would see them role up and cover in mud and sit in the sun and the mud would dry. they would go into the shade if it got hot. when the time came to the babies they were put in a spacious stall that would hold 20 pigs. they would stay there till the babies got leaned which was pretty much -- they waited until it got sick, enough. [laughs] >> and then the baby -- the growing, they went back to sort of pen and the babies went in to open fields where they could r

[applause] now i live in burlington, vermont, an hour away from the canadian border. the canadians guarantee health care to every people. in the u.k., they guarantee health care to all of their people. germany, france, scandinavia does it. every major country does it accept us and that is why i strongly believe in a medicare for all. [applause] i believe in single payment but that is not what congress believes in, but the congress did pass, and the president did find, the affordable care act. a modest but important step forward. by expanding eligibility for medicaid, millions of americans now have health insurance who previously lacked it. that is a good thing. [applause] the affordable care act, for example, has cut arkansas' uninsured population almost in half. it has reduced the number of uninsured in kentucky from 20% to 12%. in south carolina, in south carolina, over 200,000 people would gain health insurance if the governor and legislature approved the expansion. [applause] not only would several hundred thousand people gain health insurance, the state would cre

he is a liberal democrat from vermont and i am not. though we both agree that there are limits on what the government can do. we agree that the fourth amendment has meaning. that the particular law, the electronic mitigations privacy act amendment, it's one that has been around since 1986 but isn't known to most people. the original electronic privacy to medications act, giving them the power to read your e-mail. as long as that e-mail is at least 180 days old. maybe someone thought it made sense, very few people had e-mail us and those who did had no reason to keep them for more than just a few days and then they would delete them because they didn't have the storage capacity to store them beyond that. there is no such thing as cloud computing like what we have today. and so that is why the senator and i have run the spell and other bills that are designed to protect the fourth amendment. these are principles that are neither republican or democrat or liberal or conservative. [inaudible] >> though i've. >> you also deal with the over

>> well, let me just tell you about vermont. we were the very first state in this country to pass civil unions. we have led the nation. we have led the nation. >> right. >> yeah. [applause]. >> so where is governor -- you know, governor malloy stepped out. the mayors of seattle and portland, among other cities, stepped out and said we're not going to fund travel to indiana. >> yeah, and i support that, absolutely. >> so you would call for governor shumlin to do that? >> i think as a nation, yeah. i don't have any problem with that. but i think as a nation we should let the folks in indiana or in arkansas or elsewhere know that we don't support discrimination. >> right. >> you said over the last couple of days, not for the first time, certainly, we have to take on billionaires, there's no ifs, ands, or buts about that. >> yes. >> you alluded earlier to the idea that they should pay their fair share. is there anything else that you would like to see, as a matter of federal policy, with regard to redistribution of wealth or what wo

. >> gina page, 33 from vermont. she's a work-at-home mom of four, so she never does anything drastic when it comes to her look. makeup worn only for church and she hasn't colored her hair in more than a decade. here is the new gina. >> i live in a small town in vermont and word of me boeing on the show traveled fast. i felt the need to glam up every time i left the house because people wanted to see the new look. in reality i have naturally curly hair so i let my bangs grow out. i haven't worn heels since. i don't know anyone who can help me maintain the look louis did. i think you need to come to vermont on a vacation. >> francis is a mom of three, a grandma to eight. what? she climbed mt. kilimanjaro with her boyfriend last year. while an adventurous soul, she is in denial when it comes to fashion and beauty. let's see the new you. >> i look amazing. >> you do look amazing. >> my hair is the perfect length. it's the perfect color. it just works out. and it even inspired me to wear makeup more. i don't wear it dail

this after being removed from a home in vermont. look at that. a snake collector got the reptiles from a new york man, and contacted animal control officers because he didn't have the permits to keep them. they're native to southeast asia. a game warden says they're probably the biggest ever seen in vermont. >> sure looks like it. >>> well, this video is priceless. the damage gasp-worthy. a 12-year-old boy visiting a museum tripped and put his hand through a 350-year-old painting. it happened over the weekend in taiwan. the oil and canvas painting, titled "flowers," is the work of a 17th century master. it's worth $1.5 million. it was repaired and back on display. >> we'll be back with bruce beck and sports. >> announcer: why settle when you can have 100% fiber optics? verizon fios, the fastest, most reliable internet. >> how'd the mets fair? >> they keep on rolling. last night, they had eight homers against the phillies. tonight, they picked up where they left off. in the top of the first, cespedes had a two-run homer to center off williams. his

they have been challenging the vermont center and other candidates over the policies towards race. sat down with one of them to talk about the group's goals. >> vermont center plowed his way through the crowd to end the corn dog stands at the iowa state fair. a stop on the way to the white house. less than four monos into the campaign, the 73-year-old vying for the them nation has become a rock star. while he has been attracting the biggest crowds he is also attracting some surprising criticism. from a movement called black lives matter. which grew out of the deadly police shootings of michael brown, eric garner, and tamaris to make a few. >> it is even in des moines iowa the capitol of a state with a population of only 3%, according to the 20. census. activists has helped organize several black lives protests in des moines. we met with her in her home. >> i don't want people to think that we are not angry, because way are. and i don't want to people that our anger permits violence. because it doesn't. i also don't want people to think that compliance is the way to go about things.

senator from vermont and he is running for the democratic nomination. sanders was elected to four terms as the mayor of burlington, vermont, then served in the u.s. house of representatives for three terms, been a u.s.07 has senator for vermont, elected as an independent. so please welcome to the stage senator bernie sanders. [applause] mr. sanders: whoa! thank thank you. there are a lot of people here. we had justgo, begun to campaign. everybody said that this campaign was a joke. who believes that that the american people are prepared to take on the economic and political establishment of america? [applause] and 3.5 months have gone by. we have had huge crowds all over america in iowa, new hampshire, california, oregon, you name it. [applause] why, whateople ask me i tell them is, the american people are saying enough is enough. [applause] this country belongs to all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. and before i get going, i want towish a happy birthday social security, 80 years old. let me be very clear. virtually all of the republican cand

the move comes as a new poll finds clinton now trailing vermont senator bernie sanders by seven points in new hampshire. the clinton campaign is urging supporters to stay calm. arguing in a memo this week that "winning campaigns have a plan and stick to it in good times and bad. what are we hoping to learn? >> well, clirn has two dis ikts e-mail headaches here. one is the fbi did take the server. they have not officially said why they took it, but it does come on the back of this inspector general finding that volumes of classified information were on it, and some of it top secret. the assumption is that this investigation ultimately goes to whether or not she mishandled the classified data. >> how much classified information was on her e-mail, and whether or not she mishandled it? that's a big question number one. what's the second one? sfwloot security of that computer. the second question goes to the totallity of her e-mail and whether or not she handed everything over to the government. that comes out in several courtrooms. one such judge a couple of weeks ago got tired of the game

sanders: now i live in burlington, vermont, an hour away from the canadian border. the canadians guarantee health care to every people. in the u.k., they guarantee health care to all of their people. germany, france, scandinavia does it. every major country does it us and that ist why i strongly believe in a hayare, single program for all people. [applause] mr. sanders: i believe in single payer, but that is not what congress believes in, but the congress did pass, and the president did sign the affordable care act. a modest but important step forward. by expanding eligibility for medicaid, millions of americans now have health insurance who previously lacked it. that is a good thing. [applause] mr. sanders: the affordable care act, for example, has cut arkansas' uninsured population almost in half. it has reduced the number of uninsured in kentucky from 20% to 12%. in south carolina, in south carolina, over 200,000 people would gain health insurance if the governor and legislature approved the expansion. [applause] mr. sanders: not only would several hundred thousa

vermont senator bernie sanders keeps climbing. the former secretary of state giving 49%. sanders at 30%. vice president joe biden who is still undeclared, maybe you'll make the move and receive 10%. lauren: still undeclared. a key republican backs negotiating since what i read saying he would vote against the final deal. arizona senator jeff flake is a member of the foreign relations committee says the benefits are outweighed by limitations placed on the congress and government. last month expressing concerns over sanctions against iran. >> these financial sanctions and how it affects the private come against the government that it might be even more difficult to get them to agree to allow us to impose sanctions if that's what we have to do. >> white house eagerly seeking senator flake supporter. he was the only republican accompanied president obama to africa last month. >> in indonesia, officials say they first plane spotted the wreckage of a jet in the mountains of the eastern part of the country. the plane went down yesterday

a franklin pearce university of "boston herald" poll showing the vermont senator leading hillary clinton 44% to 37% among likely democratic primary voters. the poll marks the first time clinton has trailed in the 2016th primary campaign, more than half the voters polled v. sanders very favorably. another difficult day in the market after china devalues the yuan a second straight day. nicole: this is good for artists. yuan falling shortly after china weakened occurring the 1.6% from yesterday's rate it in a four year low after the country surprised international markets by devaluing nearly 2% against the u.s. dollar. the move aimed at boosting china struggling economy. one expert on china telling around liz claman. >> weapons debuts today to stabilize the economy are not giving them the confidence they will stabilize in the 7% down. the currency has been the big bazooka. it's a problem with the artillery and the global demand climate. >> beijing wants to let them dictate and china's central bank is trying to keep concerns of a further side for continued depreciation and the stable and rea

>> six months ago if you had predicted that senator bernie sanders of vermont would have attracted a lot of interest, would you have been called crazy. on sunday, the independent from vermont drew the largest crowd of any 2016 presidential candidate so far. nearly 20,000 supporters jammed into a basketball arena in portland, oregon for sanders rally with another 8,000 gathered in overflow areas outside. sanders decried the political influence of the billionaire class and promised a better lot for the working class. >> we can be a nation in which everyamerican regardless of his or her income can get a college education . >> sanders is keeping the pressure on hillary clinton who addressed student debt. she proposed a $350 billion plan to cut the cost of public school tuition and cut student loan interest rates. sanders though is clearly tapping into the voters, by seizing on the wall street movement, let's bring in al jazeera's political analyst michael shure. 28,000 heard it in portland, bernie sanders railing against the billionaire class, is that what is attracting all this attentio

. >> i don't >> six months ago if you had predicted that senator bernie sanders of vermont would have attracted a lot of interest, would you have been called crazy. on sunday, the independent from vermont drew the largest crowd of any 2016 presidential candidate so far. nearly 20,000 supporters jammed into a basketball arena in portland, oregon for sanders rally with another 8,000 gathered in overflow areas outside. sanders decried the political influence of the billionaire class and promised a better lot for the working class. >> we can be a nation in which everyamerican regardless of his or her income can get a college education . >> sanders is keeping the pressure on hillary clinton who addressed student debt. she proposed a $350 billion plan to cut the cost of public school tuition and cut student loan interest rates. sanders though is clearly tapping into the voters, by seizing on the wall street movement, let's bring in al jazeera's political analyst michael shure. 28,000 heard it in portland, bernie sanders railing against the billionaire class, is that what is attracting all t

on sunday, the independent from vermont drew the largest crowd of any 2016 presidential candidate so far. nearly 20,000 supporters jammed into a basketball arena in portland, oregon for sanders rally with another 8,000 gathered in overflow areas outside. sanders decried the political influence of the billionaire class and promised a better lot for the working class. >> we can be a nation in which everyamerican regardless of his or her income can get a college education . >> sanders is keeping the pressure on hillary clinton who addressed student debt. she proposed a $350 billion plan to cut the cost of public school tuition and cut student loan interest rates. sanders though is clearly tapping into the voters, by seizing on the wall street movement, let's bring in al jazeera's political analyst michael shure. 28,000 heard it in portland, bernie sanders railing against the billionaire class, is that what is attracting all this attention or is something else going on? >> well it's a little bit of geography. i believe you touched on a important. there is a touch of the occupy, the us vs

javier: i love vermont. senator sanders: you get up there? i invite you all to come up. [laughter] i will tell you a story, if i might. in 2007, as i recall, i learned about a horrific situation in florida. a small town near naples. most of the tomatoes used by fast food restaurants, this is where they are grown. i went there to stand with the undocumented tomato workers who are being exploited in the most horrific manner. because they are undocumented, they really have no legal rights. front-page story in the local paper, you know what the crime this man was charged with? slavery. slavery. in the year 2007. he was holding workers voluntarily. people were getting horrendously low wages. i went to the homes there. overcrowding it is then shared by the late ted kennedy, a good friend of mine. the impact of that, along with a lot of other efforts, was to improve the wages in standard of living of those workers. as senator of vermont i did not have to do that. it did not give me any votes back home. i did it does it was the right thing to do. when undocumented workers get ex

. >> the two people who were deceased was robert young of concord, vermont age 41. and anna bell, his daughter, age 8. the family is from concord vermont if we could respect their privacy at this time at the loss of their family members, it would be greatly appreciated. and as you can see there is still a lot of work going out on the investigation. we had taken some aerial photographs earlier and looked at the scene from above. we could clearly see the path of where the wind came from. >> now fire officials are continuing to investigate the collapse of this tent. and are you ready to get scared? check out this video. a rescue on the ocean and you won't believe what this fisherman did to survive. he is ready to go "on the record." he is next. >>> okay. you have to see this. two cranes trying to hoist a bridge in the netherlands suddenly the cranes crash under the weight into nearby homes. the crash caught on camera and posted online. there is some disturbing news. dutch search and rescue teams are looking for people who may have been in the nearby homes when those cr

live to the medallion center in south carolina for a town hall meeting with senator bernie sanders of vermont. speak, do q&a, and will also take questions from the c-span audience. this is lie. -- live. . [applause] kaman, you can do better than that. how are you doing? all right. this is the last stop of the evening. we are excited to be in columbia, south carolina. i have the privilege of serving as the national press secretary for bernie 2016. you will be dmc for this evening. is that ok -- i will be your mc for this evening. the man ofing out the hour, i want to chat with you all. america celebrated the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act? the voting rights act was a civil rights moment, landmark legislation. we we are knowledge how far have come. but the supreme court 2013 decision getting the voting rights act was a shameful step backwards. it was. today we know our voting rights

vermont said no at the state level. free market limited government republicans and libertarians school choice when one state does it the argument that the world cents if you give parents parental choice or right to work or no government unions it actually works better you can check that then you run for president on that now we have more than 30 republican governors in 24 states republican house and republican senate with half of the country's population democrats have seven states they run completely california is one of them. vendor is hawaiian delaware and connecticut and organic there is the challenge for this democrats they don't have control of the state bodies that republicans do. >> you cannot shower and a more. [laughter] >> their policies don't work they are achieving the blue states moving to the red states. >> that is where governor perry is central. >> yes he does have a strong narrative. >> host: going back to your policy prescription. there is a lot of money so how lahood did you make a case federal lands

down senator rand paul and bob jush and wisconsin governor scott walker and on to democrats quickly vermont senator bernie sanders continues to make gains on former secretary of state hillary clinton as you had already -- as we reported earlier. kevin, what's the takeaway for the candidates that we just mentioned? >> reporter: i think the takeaway is people are craving an authentic, candid and passionate candidate. they want someone who will be able to speak off the cuff, to really communicate with them. they are sick of the same old type of political candidates that we've seen in past cycles, and i do think that some of the more moderate republican candidates actually quite frankly haverationed a lot of money and are in a good position, including senator rubio, including former governor bush. they are in this for the long term. they have got a lot of money. i think it's going to be one heck of a super tuesday on march 1st for the republicans. >> and we leave it there. kevin cirilli, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> sure. arthel, they say you should not cry over spilled milk but what about

it's very close to vermont. he's known throughout the state. the burlington, vermont, media market bleeds over to new hampshire so he's well known. look at the demographics of new hampshire. he's -- it's on the democratic side it's an elderly perhaps older electorate, almost exclusively white. there are a lot of senior progressives there. that's exactly bernie sanders' demographic. that's why he can compete in new hampshire and may not be as much of a threat to hillary clinton in a bigger state where the electorate is more diverse, you need much more money to compete in multiple media markets. this is a sweet spot for him. >> that's right. if people expect that bernie sanders will win states, maybe new hampshire, maybe iowa. it would not make sense if hillary clinton was to run the board and win all of these states but democratic candidates haven't been able to do that. >> it didn't save her in 2008, though. she won new hampshire after being bested third place in iowa. >> but she has a different coalition now. she has the obama coalition. she's

vermont senator "bnie sande" picked up a critic >>> now to decision 2016. vermont senator bernie sanders picked up a critical endorsement in oakland today. the vermont senator is seen as hillary clinton's chief rival for the democratic presidential nomination. today he scored the endorsement of the national nurses union. he appeared at oakland today to celebrate that endorsement and take questions. clinton may be sanders' chief rival but today he targeted his harshest criticism at republicans. >> you know how to get elected? throughout the modern history of the republican party, what they do is play one group off against the other and have millions of people vote against their own economic best interests. >> sanders favors single payer health care and more drastic action to address climate change. tonight he's campaigning in los angeles. >>> well, is he the real deal? can bernie sanders really overtake hillary clinton for the democratic nomination. let's bring in larry gerston. larry, he's unique, he's raw, but is he really viable? >> bernie sanders is an a

neither vermont senator bernie sanders nor former maryland governor martin o'malley were buying it, using their speeches to call out both clinton and the party leadership. on the other side of the aisle gop front-runner donald trump speaking at the national federation of republican assemblies in nashville today. trump once again showing he's not afraid to be blunt with his crowd. >> i'm good at that stuff, you know? i'm really good at that stuff. but you have to use the laws to your advantage. no, no, you have to use it to your advantage. atlantic city, you know, you look at atlantic city, caesar's went bankrupt. whoever heard of that? caesar's filed chapter 11. normally cares. normally i wouldn't say this, but i need your fricking votes. do you understand that? do you understand that? >> certainly not afraid to speak his mind. >>> all right, joining us now with more, molly? >> hi, uma. donald trump told the crowd in tennessee today that he's a republican, he's a conservative, but he's not happy with the elected republicans in washington. here's why -- >> they go to washington, we're goin