. >> that was the disney heiress abigail disney. the disney company responded calling abigail's claims a, quote, gross and unfair exaggeration of the facts. joining us now is one of those workers. she's rebecca peterson, a hair stylist as disneyland and earns $12 an hour. she's currently in wage negotiations with disney. thank you so much for being here and help us understand what's going on behind the scenes at disneyland. what did you think about what abigail disney said after meeting withlife oyou and she said she was livid at hearing some of your stories. >> she's completely right. she's been amazing advocating for us. see has no reason, really, or benefit to be doing it. she's doing it out of the goodness of her heart, and she's 100% correct. we work for the ritz-carlton of theme parks. it's disneyland, and, you know, it's sad to see this company make more and more money yet not pay their employees accordingly. >> let's talk about that. let's talk about your life and your pay. we've already said you've shared with us your pay s

connell: also today disney firing back at abigail disney's criticism saying her statements are quote, unfair and libel oust. reporter: she is the granddaughter of roy disney, she was livid after visiting disneyland last year, more specifically about the pay practices with the company. this came out yesterday. disney fired back with their own statement. we generally avoid commenting on base le reports. this is particularly egregious and we won't let this stand. we strongly disagree with this characterization of our employees and the experience at disney this is widely reported stunt is a gross and unfair exaggeration of the facts that is not only a misrepresentation but also an insult to the thousands of employees who are part of the disney community. two major words there. you have insult and stunt. abigail disney visited disneyland last year. she will look further into the investigation. she complained bob iger, the ceo has received $66 million in pay. that is 1424 times the median salary of an average disney worker. so she is saying it is grossly unfair. that is who you're seeing on

he has pleaded not guilty. >>> disney heiress abigail disney says she is livid after what she saw visiting disneyland undercover. she tells yahoo! news she went to check out conditions for herself after workers sent her a facebook message, and every employee had a similar message for her -- quote, i don't know how i can maintain this face of joy and warmth when i have to go home and forage for food and other people's -- in other people's garbage. >> disney has her own message for company ceo bob iger, one she's delivered before, that iger needs to fix the egregious wage gap. >> bob needs to understand he's an employee just the same as the people scrubbing gum off the sidewalk are employees, and they are entitled to the same dignity and human rights that he is. >> disney says she recently e-mailed iger about her concerns but received no response. bob iger earned $66 million last year. the median salary of a disney employee is $46,127. the company in a statement to cnn points out that it pays workers above the federal minimum wage, and they have committed $150 million to a program for employ

abigail disney testified in may at the house committee on financial affairs. for more, we go to abigail s speaking g to us from cork, ireland. welcome back. talk about what you found. >> it was pretty clear what was happeningg wasas they were workg to take those low-wage workers at disney and basicically turn them into people who had no recourse andnd no time enough to be able to stand up for themselves as workers so o that they would h have a refreshing class ofof people that wouldld replace the ones who were unhappy. whenen i was young, it was a job for life,hich is now not a thing in c capalism a anymore ct of but there was the since we had a responsibility as a company to take of the people who took care of us, who are very much h part of the equation in terms of making the place a place you wanted to come back to. and now we're just basically seeing them as in leslie replaceable people. there's a kind of given among people at the high end of the business world that low skilled workers, say call them, are endlesslsly replaceable and they deserve what they

charles: walt disney heiress abigail disney taking her crusade against income inequality especially at her grandfather's company to new heights. she recently went undercover to disneyland in california, and claims that employee after employee tells stories of trying to make ends meet. she says it left quote, her livid. kristina partsinevelos joins me to discuss. she's really, really on a crusade here. >> it's not often you have doubts raised about the happiest place on earth. she went to disneyland, she told this to yahoo! and said she was livid as how they were treated. she says employees are being paid -- are just trying to make ends meet. it's not the first time she brought up this topic but now she says she wants to conduct her own investigation into disneyland to see how employees are being treated. charles: does she cite specific examples? >> no. she didn't. i listened to the portion of the interview. she didn't give any examples. she more went after one ceo, bob iger. she brought up his salary at almost $66 million. he makes roughly, according to her, 1424 times the median salar

. >>> disney heiress abigail disney says she is livid after going under cover to see what working conditions are like at disneyland. she's calling out bob iger. >>> the war of words between president trump and the democrat squad heating up. the president tweeting about it again this morning. we have that story for you. we will talk about it next. we're just getting started. or what i witnessed, am but i can tell you liberty mutual customized my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no... only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ stuart: the four far left congresswomen call themselves the squad, they have a press conference yesterday, they were responding to president trump's go back where you came from tweets. listen to this. >> -- the occupant, as he is only occupying space. >> it is time for us to stop allowing this president to make a mockery out of our constitution. it's time for us to impeach this president. >> i am not surprised when the president says that four sitting members of congress should quote, go back to their own co

another update on our abigail disney controversy. december rethinks is a story that doesn't seem to go away. >> a yahoo journalist did an undercover boss piece but had to walk back some of those comments and qualify them if not correct them, and say that abigail disney did go and visit anaheim, california, disneyland did speak with disney employees but disney has now put out a day two statement saying by her own admission and they're talking about this yahoo news piece, disney, abigail disney so-called undercover visit to disneyland with a union orchestrated meeting off property, it should also be noted this meeting was conducted in the midst of a very public and contentious labor negotiation. ashley: a lot more to the story in other words. >> a lot more to the story and abigail disney has told democracy now which is an online program, that basically she was just there speaking with workers so it wasn't an undercover boss. ashley: she wasn't undercover i guess. >> it's a free country and she said why would i disguise myself when i wa

abigail disney is really saying this should be about sort of the human rights and good conditions. we are hearing the same kind of stories from workers at amazon as well. this is a conversation that's ongoing. we do step up to the plate and say this is the best country in the world to live in, yet there definitely could be more that is done when it comes to corporations -- neil: they are already paying $15. >> they are paying it. >> they said they are paying their workers $15 and they have programs where people can have continuing education and really get involved, you know, move towards, you know, have multiple promotions towards upper management. think about where disney's stock is now. under iger's tenure, it's gone up five times. neil: it's made abigail rich. >> was that iger or the market? >> he was the first one to have all that content on, you know, netflix and hulu. he did a strategic deal with lucas films, a strategic deal with fox, which is this network, owned by this network. neil: they can still charge $10 for a turkey leg. it's outrageous but they can do it. let me get

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stuart: disney is responding to abigail disney's claims of very poor working conditions at disneyland. what's the company saying? ashley: abigail says she was livid. we had this response from disney to you, mr. varney, saying quote, disney is at the forefront of providing work force education, which is widely recognized as the best way to create economic opportunity for employees and empower upward mobility. disney also provides flexible schedules and subsidized child care. in other words, it's not the hell-hole abigail disney said it was. $15 an hour, they said they have all sorts of benefits. stuart: yes. abigail is an activist. very wealthy young lady. she's going right after bob iger. and they are responding. ashley: and his insane salary. stuart: they are responding to everything. all right. let's face it. now it is the 50th anniversary of the apollo landing. they stepped on the moon on july 21st. got that. now, we have on the show now the company which designed the headset for neil armstrong. it's on the screen. that man right there, joe burton, ceo of poly, p-o-l-y. am i right

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here you have this report of an heiress, abigail disney, undercover. misquoted or misstated. deirdre: i think for many people their brand is about fantasy, about joy, about family, so anything that contradicts that, they obviously have a corporate issue with. stuart: they sure do. thank you very much. next case, berkeley, california. i can hardly believe this. they are banning the use of natural gas in all homes, and the ban starts in january. i guess that's next year. energy guy daniel turner is the founder and president of the power for the future organization and he's with us now. >> thanks for having me on. stuart: wait a minute. come next january, you're living in berkeley, how are you supposed to cook or say warm the water in your shower without natural gas? >> yeah, this is the stupidity of green philosophy when it's taken to the extreme. in california, they think the only good energy is solar or wind. what they forget to understand is to make wind turbines and solar panels, you need an awful lot of fossil fuels. you need to extract rare earths, you need to forge steel

abigail disney is a granddaughter of roy disney, walt disney's older brother. she said she made an undercover visit to the park to talk to employees after a worker sent her a facebook message complaining about low wages. other disney workers told her they were having hard times making ends meet. after her visit, she wrote an email to the ceo to urge him to increase the pay of disney workers. >>> today marks 20 years since the death of president kennedy's son, jfk jr., and his wife and sister. the three were killed on july 16, 1999 when their single engine plane crashed into the atlantic ocean. the family reported the plane overdue after they failed to arrive at a wedding at martha's vineyard. >>> we are learning more about the apparent delay of the new harriet tubman $20 bill. many democratics believe the trump administration had something to do with the delay. three current or former high- ranking officials that served in the obama administration were in the project said it was set before president trump took office. in 2014, president obama's secretary asked

disney heiress abigail disney, granddaughter to walt disney's brother roy, she was quote livid after going under cover at disneyland to see worker conditions. she claims employees are struggling to make ends meet. gary, adam, this story is so strange to me. why do you think she is doing this? what do you make of it? >> her last name is disney. last i looked i think she would have some influence. why not call iger up and talk to them in an office without castigating disney out in public? i don't get this whole thing. disney is one of these great companies, does so much for the employees, i'm here locally with these people. they do so much for the community, fill philanthropy i couldn't begin to start how many good things they are doing. she castigates them in public. that is so stupid. sit down with them, try to fix it with them. melissa: adam? >> fix it quietly, live in era, everybody has a platform. everyone has a platform. there are no editors. guess what you make a name for yourself? oh, you're just a granddaughter you inherited a lot of money. wow, if you went out said, i want to

. >>> disney heiress abigail disney says she is livid after what she saw visiting disneyland under cover. she tells yahoo! she went to check out conditions for herself after workers sent her a facebook message, and every employee had a similar message, quote, i don't know how i can maintain this face of joy and warmth when i have to go home and forage for food in other people's garbage. >> disney has her own message for couple ceo bob iger, it's one she's delivered before. and that's iger needs to fix the egregious wage gap. >> bob needs to understand he's an employee just the same as the people scrubbing gum off the sidewalk are employees, and they're entitled to all the same dignity and human rights that he is. >> disney said she recently e-mailed iger about her concerns but received no response. iger earned $66 million last year, the median salary of a disney employee is $46,127. the company in a statement to cnn points out it pays workers above the federal minimum wage, and that it's committed $150 million to help employees earn college, high school, or vocational degrees. >>> christ

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