This is Jimmy Lewert, producer of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour with a note for our listeners.

Our interview with Senator Mike Ravelle was recorded before he dropped out of the Democratic primary to endorseandy Sanders. It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

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Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan, long with my co-host David

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And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader.

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We do have a great show today.

We welcome former senator in 2020 presidential candidate Mike Grivel.

Senator Grivel has a long history as an anti-war voice during the Vietnam War era.

He is also noted for reading the Pentagon Papers into the congressional record at a time when the Nixon administration's FBI was putting enormous pressure on the press to quash them.

And as a candidate running today, Senator Gravel has been excluded from the Democratic debates on CNN

because he only met one of the qualifying criteria laid out by the Democratic National Committee.

He met the donor qualification but did not meet the polling threshold.

You have to be receiving 1% in three separate national polls.

Apparently other candidates who have been allowed on the debate stage have also only met one criterion.

According to truth that that would be Bill DiBlazio, Tim Ryan and Michael Bennett, but only

Ravel has been excluded. What is the DNC afraid of? Maybe it's his platform, which includes

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