Crime Stoppers!/Pay Equity
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Ralph talks true crime (the corporate variety) and how to stop it with Professor John C. Coffee, author of “Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Crisis of Underenforcement.” Then SF Supervisor, Matt Haney, joins us to talk about the groundbreaking initiative passed in the City by the Bay that will levy a tax on companies that pay their execs more than 100x the median pay of their workers.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.0 | You've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman. Hello David. |
| 0:19.3 | Hello Steve. Nice to have you here and the man of the hour. |
| 0:23.5 | Ralph Nader. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:25.5 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:26.5 | You know, last week we asked, what will the Democratic agenda be in 2021? |
| 0:31.5 | And it looks like one item will be voting once again to impeach President Trump. After |
| 0:36.9 | armed insurrection has stormed the Capitol building at the President's urging, even some long time |
| 0:42.1 | Trump apologist are calling for his ouster. |
| 0:44.6 | And Twitter and Facebook have banned Trump from violating their terms of use, |
| 0:48.2 | but Trump himself denies any responsibility and his enablers in the GOP like Ted Cruz and Josh Holly continue |
| 0:54.5 | to ag on right-wing extremists who have made their violent intentions very |
| 0:58.6 | clear. Ralph, what do you have to say about all this sorted out for the people. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, after the Trump mob stormed the Congress, it got the Democrats to impeach Trump |
| 1:09.6 | in the House of Representatives with a few Republican supporters, but the majority the has got a very important decision to make. Does he stick with Trump or does he say that |
| 1:25.8 | Trump is the past and the future of the Republican Party includes standing tall and having |
| 1:32.4 | a trial in the Senate and letting Republicans, |
| 1:35.6 | especially those up for re-election in 2022, vote their conscience. |
| 1:40.0 | It's in McConnell's interest in terms of controlling the Republican Party because he'll be the chief figure for the National Republican Party in terms of power to basically let the Republican senators vote their conscience and convict Trump. |
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