And we have heard from other senior, respected luminaries of the news and political commentary industry: George Will, Sam Donaldson, Dan Rather, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Tom Brokaw. They're all saying the same thing. Trumpists need to have this pointed out to them. One has to believe that Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, and Edward Murrow would voice their outrage or fear as well, each in his own distinctive style, concerning Trump and his influence on this country.
I remember watching Bill Moyer's twenty years ago when I was in my twenties. He introduced me to a lot of topics that no one else around me seemed to be talking about. It's good to see he's still on his game.
These public servant are a true representative of what it is to be a “Servant Leader”. It was amazing to watch. So proud of these foreign service members🇺🇸
Moyers is right. PBS needs to broadcast the hearings in prime time. At seven years old, I watched the Nixon impeachment hearings. It taught me a a young age that not only that politicians lie, but also that anyone could be held accountable for breaking the law.
M M I can’t, for the life of me, understand his appeal with the evangelical bunch. Reprehensible morality aside, he’s a serial cheater whose current wife - Callista - was his mistress with whom he was having affair while his then wife was battling cancer.
Me either. Other than I remember a quote from my college professor (and he may have been quoting someone else too) but here goes: "religion is the opiate of the people". I think this explains a lot.
Bill Moyers is Head & Shoulders above Cronkite who was largely a media creation. Cronkite used to vacation where I live and he was known to an arrogant overbearingly pompous man. Bill Moyers, on the other hand, has led a life of hard work and dogged pursuit of truth. His PBS career as a representative of truth literally makes him worthy of a Nobel Prize and dwarfs anything Cronkite ever did.
Bill Moyer's is one of those "wise elder statesmen" we ought to pay attention to. George Orwell wrote about "creating your own reality" in "1984". Here we have it actually going on.
The Constitution says in Article 1 Section 3 Para 6: "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation." So, I hope everybody in the Senate will tell the TRUTH and remember their Oaths of Office too.
@@randomboris Exactly. The GOP is only interested in pushing insane conspiracy theories that Fact Checkers and all of our USA Intelligence Agencies say have been investigated and totally debunked. Even I can so easily disprove the ones I know anything about. But they don't care about FACTS or LOGIC or the CONSTITUTION. Fiona Hill just warned them not to push Russian Conspiracy Theories and they don't blink an eye before doing it again!!! And, they are angry when anyone calls them out on it and attack and smear the messenger!!! They don't care how many lives they are destroying and how many allies we will lose while strengthening our enemies and becoming more and more like a dictatorship. Our branches of government are not acting as SEPARATE and CO-EQUAL checks and balances on each other. I can't believe our legislative branch thinks it is supposed to be subservient to the President and are relinquishing their power to him. They are going to the accused parties to find out how to respond to the accusations instead of following the Law and Constitution. It is like the police helping someone rob a bank by providing the getaway car then claiming the bank robber didn't do it! They are acting like defense attorneys for the President instead of Attorney Generals for the American people and jurors. It is scary. If the ACCUSED is a Republican they are automatically innocent even if PROVEN guilty beyond a REASONABLE doubt, no matter what the FACTS are against them. If they are Democrats accusing a Republican of doing something wrong, accuse them of making up the facts and say "truth isn't truth" and "2+2 does not equal 4!" If they are lifelong Republicans like Comey, Rosenstein, and Mueller leading the investigations against the President, complain that Dems are doing it anyway!!!
That will never happen. Republicans are like an all-white jury in Alabama trying some KKK members for lynching a black man They are clearly guilty, and just as clearly plan to do a victory lap around the courthouse in front of their victim's family when they are acquitted after two minutes of deliberations. Later, the people who acquitted the guilty men will be seen partying with them in full Klan regalia and nothing can or will be done about it. It will be called justice and the murderers will be called innocent and exonerated. I'm not looking forward to it, personally, and I don't think it could happen in Canada where I live, but I feel sorry for decent Americans being degraded and betrayed this way.
According to Mr Moyers, in the end, the only solution would be to throw out all the bad and get the "ship of Democracy" floating again. This would mean today the END OF GOP.
I disagree with that description, due to the fact that’s far too kind to refer to the administration. I doubt the current English language has enough words or even if they exist yet to explain how pathetic it was for future generations.
Bill Moyes' last comment was instructive - throw them out and start again; a cleansing process if you will and lets "live in the truth" instead of Trumps reality of dishonesty, corruption and personal greed.
I love listening to Bill Moyers to gain new wisdom. His series with Prof. Joseph Campbell "The Power of Myth" still draws me to Joseph's website when I need a shot of sanity. I put Bill along side my other heroes like Dame Jane Goodall, just to name one of many. Chris thanks for bringing Bill on.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both." - Frederick Douglass
It was so good to find these clips with Bill Moyers. I love him dearly. I caught a few words of him first on Lawrence O’Donnell’s (sp?) show, knew his voice immediately and went looking for the longer clips. Thank you, Bill, for being a voice for truth and kindness. Keep doing interviews. Hearing your voice brings joy to my heart.
Because they value getting and retaining power above all of that. It may have started as a genuine desire to further their idea of better govt. IDK. But in order to achieve their goals they've instituted the most profound political gerrymandering in our history, founded a television station which the founders freely admiitted was for no reason other than to advance their own political agenda and which has actually become state tv like in dictatorships around the world and otherwise abandoned their previously held views of the importance of morality. They've succeeded to the point where in many cases they have absolute political power and I believe it's true that absolute power corrupts absolutely. The same would've happened if democrats had taken that route and been as effective in the process.
@@bethanydee1920 , i doubt that the same would happen if the Democrats had taken the route. I have enough faith that enough Dems would be willing to sacrifice reelection out of principle. 2nd, i doubt the Democrats would ever be so selfish, greedy and power hungry as the Republicans. What I dont get is why there aren't those decent middle america Republicans who do see the hypocrisy and lies of their party members.
The craziest thing I heard today was that even now trumps polling is ticking upward.....Im sorry...I think theres a mass self delusion going on in this country and this is a very dangerous situation we are in
Impeached ... definitely ... but Removed by the Senate ? .. currently they are still clinging to the criminal in chief.. I don't hold out hope that will change .. so maybe not removed, but he WILL be impeached !
I've watched this program before; I'm watching it today because I needed to absorb an interview of intellegence and I really love the knowledge and wisdom of Bill Moyer, plus the sound of his voice. After this I might just watch his series with Prof. Joseph Campbell 'The Power of Myth'.
I thank Bill Moyers for his calm, deep wisdom and insight. This rang so true to me that I felt it was worth transcribing and contemplating. Hayes: How confident are you that some of the worst pathologies that we have in our politics right now can be undone? Moyers: I think they are here until there is some kind of transformation in the American culture - in the American body politic…until enough people…well I went to listen to Robert J. Lifton, one of the great forensic psychologists of our time, who wrote magnificent books about the survivors Hiroshima, about Hitler’s Nazis, about people who experienced trauma, and he says, There’s only one way we’re going to get out of this, and that is to do what Vaclav Havel did-who had been the champion of freedom against the Communists in Chekoslovakia and became the first president of Chekoslovakia-said you have to live in the truth, everyone else has to live in the truth, and you have to attach yourselves to organizations that are trying to serve the truth. If we all, if enough of us do that we might yet see our republic safe. Remember what Grover Cleveland said, that the ship of democracy which has weathered many rough storms, may like any great ship at sea sink from the mutiny of those on board. Throw them out, and start putting the ship of democracy in the path of the truth of our experience, and we’ll get through it, but only if we do that.”
the best anchor on MNSBC or NBC young man, and by a country mile knowledgeable, controlled passion, hard hitting, and with an extraordinary sense of empathy ..
It is still not too late for PBS to televise these hearings two or three hour a night until the House votes on impeachment, That should just about cover it.
Where are the Bill Moyer's of today? We need more like him on the airwaves. This man speaks a dignified truth and is a death of fresh air in today's reality show news cycle
l Jones, Democrats wanted Nixon impeached for considering and talking about doing what Obama and the Clintons have been proven in court to have done. Why shouldn’t Republicans fight on precedent and principle alone?
David Grover which court and what crimes were Clinton and Obama found guilty of committing and how is it they are still walking around as free men and not incarcerated like the rest of the criminals currently in jail?
Mervyn Stephens, That would be Judge Susan Webber Wright’s Court on Clinton’s Perjury Charge though that is not the only court to rule on the matter, the Clinton misuse of FBI files was adjudicated in several federal courts, the IRS admitted guilt for Obama’s IRS Targeting Scandal as part of a settlement I believe that was at the Federal court in Virginia, and finally we have Obama’s Operation Choke Point which the FDIC has to settle with some of Obama’s victims of the dirtbags secret gun control program.
I think republicans defend him because to do otherwise would be to against their family. It is totally tribal. The idea that the hated neighboring tribe is right and we are wrong would be an identity killing move. There is no reason, only an emotional reaction. Now the response to their emotional response has to be carefully crafted because they are so fragile. Anything you say will be interpreted as an attack.
God bless the two of you in your search for the truth in this donald trump shitstorm. Chris hope you're still around in the next 50 years advising your listeners about the trials and tribulations of politics. You can learn a lot from Mr. Moyers there.
“In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.” ― Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door
I feel as though 30% of the US population is irredeemable. I've looked for redeeming qualities because this is the first time I've experienced real hatred for people but I cannot find any human character traits that are positive. Also, Trump supporters are a danger to the concept of truth, which bothers me the most. It's an attack on something important that we can't live without.
I love this man! Not only is Bill Moyers a walking journalism historian; he's an American institution, unabashed by lies and unafraid to speak truth to power when our democracy has reached the apex of blatant, open danger long lurking in the shadows. He's old school, before only six corporations and billionaires owned global media, both outright and in pieces in other smaller countries fighting for democracy and against corruption. Even US used the media in Chile, spending millions to spread propaganda in the coup via Chile's newspaper, "El Mercurio." We ousted Salvador Allende and put in Pinochet. End result was a total decimation of a democracy on the rise, thousands dead in the streets and proving yet again that our "democracy" is an illusion that surrendered to greed and corruption over a century ago. US is the new version of Queen Victoria's Great Britain, but includes her strategies in today's surreal politics...only much worse. In years past, PBS would've shown impeachment hearings during prime time, a given; that indicates that public tv isn't so public anymore. I learned so much watching the hearings; our foreign service diplomats do involved, difficult work, yet they remain non-partisan and true to democracy's cause. In today's global political climate and, with Trump as a president, the latter's gotta be the most difficult thing to do.
Yeah, I was impressed with the quantity of the witnesses. Al least we are in good hands with them except maybe Morrison and Volcker. Also although mostly truthful, sondland seemed over his head and in the deep end of the pool.
Dan Ozomatli Gop is dead. Gop remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? Howlindsey Doody
Dan Ozomatli Wylie said that Bannon's plans began to solidify in 2014, when Cambridge Analytica consulted various Republican campaigns and PACs ahead of the midterm elections. The company began to test and apply its psychographics by using Facebook data to model individuals' personality types in order to understand how to influence them. Documents show the John Bolton Super PAC, which promoted candidates supported by recently appointed White House national security adviser John Bolton, paid Cambridge Analytical $454,700 in 2014 for "behavioral microtargeting with psychographic messaging." Those services included strategies that broke individual voters into "clusters" based on what messages would resonate with them. Wylie also said the company used focus groups and messaging trials in 2014 to test some of the concepts that became core themes of the Trump campaign, such as "drain the swamp" and imagery of walls. "A lot of the narratives of the Trump campaign were what we were testing in 2014," Wylie said. He added that Bannon directly presided over much of the company's initial research. "Everything that we were doing ultimately had to be passed up to Bannon for approval," said Wylie, who left the company in late 2014. Wylie said Bannon would fly to London about once a month for company meetings, and during that time he came to understand Bannon's ideology. "He really liked the idea of using a military-style approach to changing people's perceptions," Wylie said. Curt Devine, Donie O'Sullivan & Drew Griffin CNN According to the Times, Cambridge Analytica bought the data from Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian-American academic. Kogan, who told Facebook he was conducting academic research, built a Facebook personality quiz app called "thisisyourdigitalife." When users downloaded the app, it scraped all of their available Facebook data, including their friends, their likes and where they lived. More than a quarter-million Facebook users downloaded the app, which also exploited a Facebook vulnerability that allowed it to to collect most of the same data from the friends of those who downloaded it. By prying into the friends lists of those who made the download, Kogan was able to get data from more than 50 million people. Throughout 2015 and into 2016, the Cruz campaign paid Cambridge Analytica almost $6 million for data that the campaign used for what it called "psychographic targeting," which supposedly allowed the campaign to tailor its message to specific voters in places like Iowa and New Hampshire, where single voters can make a big difference. Using data from the firm, the campaign built profiles of potential voters, prioritizing those who fit in categories such as "stoic traditionalist" and "true believer". In December 2015, the same month The Guardian revealed Cambridge Analytica and Kogan's data harvesting practices, Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler called the company a "market leader and the best in the field." Despite Tyler's claim that the Cruz campaign stopped using the firm's data in early 2016, it kept paying Cambridge Analytica until June of that year, a month after Cruz suspended his campaign. After Cruz dropped out of the race, the firm began working with Trump, supporting him through November's general election against Hillary Clinton. Stephen Young Dallas Observer - Bannon got it immediately. He believes in the whole Andrew Breitbart doctrine that politics is downstream from culture, so to change politics you need to change culture. And fashion trends are a useful proxy for that. Trump is like a pair of Uggs, or Crocs, basically. So how do you get from people thinking ‘Ugh. Totally ugly’ to the moment when everyone is wearing them? That was the inflection point he was looking for. Is what Cambridge Analytica does akin to bullying? - I think it’s worse than bullying, Christopher Wylie says. - Because people don’t necessarily know it’s being done to them. At least bullying respects the agency of people because they know. So it’s worse, because if you do not respect the agency of people, anything that you’re doing after that point is not conducive to a democracy. And fundamentally, information warfare is not conducive to democracy. Millions of people’s personal information was stolen and used to target them in ways they wouldn’t have seen, and couldn’t have known about, by a mercenary outfit, Cambridge Analytica, who, Wylie says, “would work for anyone”. Who would pitch to Russian oil companies. Would they subvert elections abroad on behalf of foreign governments? It occurs to me to ask Wylie this one night. - Yes. Nato or non-Nato? - Either. I mean they’re mercenaries. They’ll work for pretty much anyone who pays. It’s an incredible revelation. It also encapsulates all of the problems of outsourcing - at a global scale, with added cyberweapons. And in the middle of it all are the public - our intimate family connections, our “likes”, our crumbs of personal data, all sucked into a swirling black hole that’s expanding and growing and is now owned by a politically motivated billionaire. Carole Cadwalladr The Guardian
"To preempt any political talk around the family table this Thanksgiving, let me just say that twisted turkey looks thoroughly roasted, fully baked, and am delighted it's determined destiny is to be carved to pieces, gnashed to bits, and deservedly devoured completely, with an appetite that would do it justice!"
"...you have to live in the truth and you have to attach yourself to organizations that are trying to save the truth. If enough of us do that, we might yet save our democracy." -Bill Moyers
I do enjoy watching this at some level. I don't mean to demean any of this. But ABC had a special last night on a class of middle schoolers who got the sum total of the whole situation very quickly in about three days. Just fyi folks.
People that say so and so is too old to be president...I'd take this octogenarian over 99.9% of the population for president. He has such a breadth of knowledge and understanding and total command of his faculties...so can we just evaluate on an individual basis?
I simply adore and respect Bill Moyers, his books and PBS show and also Joseph Campbell. He’s a man of such wisdom. Great man.
I’m so glad we have honest, hard working, risk taking journalists and politicians. We’re listening. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing some wise and inspiring words, Mr. Moyers!
A Bill Moyers is exactly who we need to hear from right now.
Daxxon Jabiru ... Yes. Moyers is interesting.
Trump a solipsist and a narcissist?
This gives us food for thought?
And we have heard from other senior, respected luminaries of the news and political commentary industry: George Will, Sam Donaldson, Dan Rather, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Tom Brokaw. They're all saying the same thing. Trumpists need to have this pointed out to them.
One has to believe that Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, and Edward Murrow would voice their outrage or fear as well, each in his own distinctive style, concerning Trump and his influence on this country.
WHY??
Bill Moyer is an American legend! Definitely trustworthy and extremely experienced with our history!
I've so much respect for this man's skill and honesty. Really rare.
I remember watching Bill Moyer's twenty years ago when I was in my twenties. He introduced me to a lot of topics that no one else around me seemed to be talking about. It's good to see he's still on his game.
Holy Moly, I haven't seen Bill for years, he brings back so many memories.
These public servant are a true representative of what it is to be a “Servant Leader”. It was amazing to watch. So proud of these foreign service members🇺🇸
I so love Bill Moyers.. it is like opening a window to hear him speak... please live forever!!!
Moyers is right. PBS needs to broadcast the hearings in prime time. At seven years old, I watched the Nixon impeachment hearings. It taught me a a young age that not only that politicians lie, but also that anyone could be held accountable for breaking the law.
Another sane voice stating the obvious America has, for whatever reason, elected a Walter Mitty Mobster. Time to admit this and remove the problem.
Love the phrase "Walter Mitty Mobster", LOL. ...Maybe he is not so much pretending to be a mobster as he is pretending to be a president.
Robert Millar .... One of the few people who remember the Walter Mitty trope.
So right. Trump is a Walter Mitty
SlabHardcheese ... 🤔
Glad you agree Denyze... the original Walter Mitty was a harmless character ... unfortunately this one has his finger on a nuclear button!
Moyers is one of the last, great journalist who has integrity.
Thank you for having Mr. Moyers on the show. We need to hear from every level headed scholar that exists!
Newt Gingrich bears a LOT of responsibility for our presently toxic political atmosphere.
Blame the credulous suckers who listened. He had an audience.
M M I can’t, for the life of me, understand his appeal with the evangelical bunch. Reprehensible morality aside, he’s a serial cheater whose current wife - Callista - was his mistress with whom he was having affair while his then wife was battling cancer.
@@kennethhwang3425 because evangelicals are nothing more than a cult of ignorant fools.
Me either. Other than I remember a quote from my college professor (and he may have been quoting someone else too) but here goes: "religion is the opiate of the people". I think this explains a lot.
Dale Long It’s the biggest irony that Callista is now serving as the US ambassador to the Holy See. But then again, she might just fit right in.
Bill Moyers--one of the most well-respected journalists of all time. Comparable to Walter Cronkite.
just the kind that you can't trust...!!
Bill Moyers is Head & Shoulders above Cronkite who was largely a media creation. Cronkite used to vacation where I live and he was known to an arrogant overbearingly pompous man. Bill Moyers, on the other hand, has led a life of hard work and dogged pursuit of truth. His PBS career as a representative of truth literally makes him worthy of a Nobel Prize and dwarfs anything Cronkite ever did.
Bill Moyer's is one of those "wise elder statesmen" we ought to pay attention to. George Orwell wrote about "creating your own reality" in "1984". Here we have it actually going on.
Agreed. This was an impressive interview.
Yolanda Denny yes, he has always been my favorite journalists. And, is a person of incomparable integrity. Love him.
The Constitution says in
Article 1 Section 3 Para 6:
"The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation."
So, I hope everybody in the Senate will tell the TRUTH and remember their Oaths of Office too.
Elaine Johnson the corrupt GOP party has shown that they care more about thier own political interests rather than the interests of the United States.
@@randomboris Exactly. The GOP is only interested in pushing insane conspiracy theories that Fact Checkers and all of our USA Intelligence Agencies say have been investigated and totally debunked. Even I can so easily disprove the ones I know anything about. But they don't care about FACTS or LOGIC or the CONSTITUTION. Fiona Hill just warned them not to push Russian Conspiracy Theories and they don't blink an eye before doing it again!!! And, they are angry when anyone calls them out on it and attack and smear the messenger!!! They don't care how many lives they are destroying and how many allies we will lose while strengthening our enemies and becoming more and more like a dictatorship. Our branches of government are not acting as SEPARATE and CO-EQUAL checks and balances on each other. I can't believe our legislative branch thinks it is supposed to be subservient to the President and are relinquishing their power to him. They are going to the accused parties to find out how to respond to the accusations instead of following the Law and Constitution. It is like the police helping someone rob a bank by providing the getaway car then claiming the bank robber didn't do it! They are acting like defense attorneys for the President instead of Attorney Generals for the American people and jurors. It is scary. If the ACCUSED is a Republican they are automatically innocent even if PROVEN guilty beyond a REASONABLE doubt, no matter what the FACTS are against them. If they are Democrats accusing a Republican of doing something wrong, accuse them of making up the facts and say "truth isn't truth" and "2+2 does not equal 4!" If they are lifelong Republicans like Comey, Rosenstein, and Mueller leading the investigations against the President, complain that Dems are doing it anyway!!!
Elaine Johnson you and I understand the rule of law and know our duty as citizen - country over party but somehow the GOP act as PUTIN's assets.
@@junepwoo4529True. Republicans seem to be "useful idiots" to Putin. The term is funny, but the consequences are not.
That will never happen. Republicans are like an all-white jury in Alabama trying some KKK members for lynching a black man They are clearly guilty, and just as clearly plan to do a victory lap around the courthouse in front of their victim's family when they are acquitted after two minutes of deliberations. Later, the people who acquitted the guilty men will be seen partying with them in full Klan regalia and nothing can or will be done about it. It will be called justice and the murderers will be called innocent and exonerated. I'm not looking forward to it, personally, and I don't think it could happen in Canada where I live, but I feel sorry for decent Americans being degraded and betrayed this way.
Thank u MSNBC for Fabulous Reporting 🤠👍 n a Wonderful Credible Guest 😀🌺
Bill Moyers is a national treasure
I agree! I would add a treasure for human beings in general.
Who can possibly downvote the sayings of this wise old man?
Take a guess.
@C J I guess that somes it up rather accurately
I have always had the greatest respect for Bill Moyers. When he speaks, I listen!
I love Bill Moyers.
He is an honorable man and an awesome reporter.
Thank you Chris. God bless you sir
It's nice that you take the approach to convince through talking not "might makes right".
According to Mr Moyers, in the end, the only solution would be to throw out all the bad and get the "ship of Democracy" floating again. This would mean today the END OF GOP.
I totally agree. Get all these long timers that don't represent the true Americans.
@@nevasanford-griffin5691 Epitomised by turncoats like Lindsey Graham and egregious, evil, HORRORS like Moscow Mitch McCorruptible
NO...GOD,!! YOUR SO STUPID!!!
Disgusting, Repulsive, abominable the perfect description of this administration and the GOP that are complicit.
I disagree with that description, due to the fact that’s far too kind to refer to the administration. I doubt the current English language has enough words or even if they exist yet to explain how pathetic it was for future generations.
Bill Moyes' last comment was instructive - throw them out and start again; a cleansing process if you will and lets "live in the truth" instead of Trumps reality of dishonesty, corruption and personal greed.
I love listening to Bill Moyers to gain new wisdom. His series with Prof. Joseph Campbell "The Power of Myth" still draws me to Joseph's website when I need a shot of sanity. I put Bill along side my other heroes like Dame Jane Goodall, just to name one of many. Chris thanks for bringing Bill on.
Bill Moyers is the best... he has brought this old man a liftime of useful insight...
The office of president has become the evil executive branch 😞
UNTIL TRUMP
@@papayaman7196 come on.. u cant possibly b that blind.
@@deedeehey50 Yes they can, especially when they're paid trolls!
@@deedeehey50 .
Brilliant as always glad to see him back in the public. The incomparable Mr. Bill Moyer's.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both."
- Frederick Douglass
bill moyer's "A world of ideas" book from 1989 is brilliant.
Extremely powerful. How do we convince those seeking to bolster "their side" that there is something much more important at stake?
Happy to see Bill Moyers still doing what he does best. Much respect!
Another great man with history at his beck and call. If we don't know our history and use it we are doomed to make mistakes that we have made before.
This is Fantastic! Thank you! Chris and Bill! 😊
Bill Moyer's is so intelligent. And he looks great.
Great show. I respect Bill Moyer
45 Needs To Be Held Accountable For His Actions And Also All The Republicans Enablers Who Keep On Lying For Him.
Excellent interview. Thank you mr. Bill Moyers.
It was so good to find these clips with Bill Moyers. I love him dearly. I caught a few words of him first on Lawrence O’Donnell’s (sp?) show, knew his voice immediately and went looking for the longer clips. Thank you, Bill, for being a voice for truth and kindness. Keep doing interviews. Hearing your voice brings joy to my heart.
Bill is a National Treasure.
Thank you.
What a human being! I miss your analysis, dear Mr. Moyers!
May you stay healthy and youthful for years to come!!🙏
Bill Moyer I respect your opinion !👍Thank you !👍🇺🇸We the People🇺🇸
Yes Bill Moyers.
Transformation needs an epiphany.
Until the deplorables have an epiphany, we are stuck.
Thank you Bill, I really needed that.
I'm confused.
Why don't ANY Republicans care about the _testimony_ , _lies_ , _the truth_ ?
Because they value getting and retaining power above all of that. It may have started as a genuine desire to further their idea of better govt. IDK. But in order to achieve their goals they've instituted the most profound political gerrymandering in our history, founded a television station which the founders freely admiitted was for no reason other than to advance their own political agenda and which has actually become state tv like in dictatorships around the world and otherwise abandoned their previously held views of the importance of morality.
They've succeeded to the point where in many cases they have absolute political power and I believe it's true that absolute power corrupts absolutely. The same would've happened if democrats had taken that route and been as effective in the process.
Because they are willing to destroy America to protect their corruption
@@bethanydee1920 , i doubt that the same would happen if the Democrats had taken the route. I have enough faith that enough Dems would be willing to sacrifice reelection out of principle. 2nd, i doubt the Democrats would ever be so selfish, greedy and power hungry as the Republicans.
What I dont get is why there aren't those decent middle america Republicans who do see the hypocrisy and lies of their party members.
I work with middle America republicans. They are loyal to their team above all else.
@@wisconsinfarmer4742 , you say Republicans are loyal to their team. Well, maybe you should remind them that it's _TEAM AMERICA_ .
Great interview. We need more of this.
The craziest thing I heard today was that even now trumps polling is ticking upward.....Im sorry...I think theres a mass self delusion going on in this country and this is a very dangerous situation we are in
Trump won't be impeached but he won't be reelected either.....people getting sick of the constant chaos.
"Trump won't be impeached but he won't be reelected either"
I believe Nancy Pelosi is actually trying to make that come true.
He will be impeached, he might not be convicted by the Senate, but he will be impeached for sure!
I guarantee you Trump is going to be impeached. He's gone too far
Impeached ... definitely ... but Removed by the Senate ? .. currently they are still clinging to the criminal in chief.. I don't hold out hope that will change .. so maybe not removed, but he WILL be impeached !
From your mouth to God's ear - Oh how I wish your prediction comes true
Hello Mr Moyer
Loved u after watching your
Series on PBS with Joseph
Campbell! Thank you !!
So great to hear from Bill Moyers!
I REALLY admire Bill Moyers, a very intelligent man, a great man!
I've watched this program before; I'm watching it today because I needed to absorb an interview of intellegence and I really love the knowledge and wisdom of Bill Moyer, plus the sound of his voice. After this I might just watch his series with Prof. Joseph Campbell 'The Power of Myth'.
What is most egregious is the trend our politics has taken. The support of such a president is indicative of the rot in our government.
The public has rotted too. You can see it in virtually every comment section here in RUclips.
I thank Bill Moyers for his calm, deep wisdom and insight. This rang so true to me that I felt it was worth transcribing and contemplating.
Hayes: How confident are you that some of the worst pathologies that we have in our politics right now can be undone?
Moyers: I think they are here until there is some kind of transformation in the American culture - in the American body politic…until enough people…well I went to listen to Robert J. Lifton, one of the great forensic psychologists of our time, who wrote magnificent books about the survivors Hiroshima, about Hitler’s Nazis, about people who experienced trauma, and he says, There’s only one way we’re going to get out of this, and that is to do what Vaclav Havel did-who had been the champion of freedom against the Communists in Chekoslovakia and became the first president of Chekoslovakia-said you have to live in the truth, everyone else has to live in the truth, and you have to attach yourselves to organizations that are trying to serve the truth. If we all, if enough of us do that we might yet see our republic safe. Remember what Grover Cleveland said, that the ship of democracy which has weathered many rough storms, may like any great ship at sea sink from the mutiny of those on board. Throw them out, and start putting the ship of democracy in the path of the truth of our experience, and we’ll get through it, but only if we do that.”
The wannabe mob boss ( Trump) wants to know who the rat is the ( Whistleblower) does it sound familiar.
Trump is on putin payroll
Yes, sounds like an old Jimmy Cagney movie. 🎥
I pity the Whistleblower now. His name was revealed at the beginning of the Articles of Impeachment Markup meeting.
the best anchor on MNSBC or NBC young man, and by a country mile knowledgeable, controlled passion, hard hitting, and with an extraordinary sense of empathy ..
It is still not too late for PBS to televise these hearings two or three hour a night until the House votes on impeachment, That should just about cover it.
Organize, show up and Vote 🌊🌊🌊
Really enjoyed and respect that interview 👍, much props to both of you, well put ✌️
Wow. That guy is awesome
🔊❤ Bill Moyers, Truth plain & simple 🕪
Where are the Bill Moyer's of today?
We need more like him on the airwaves. This man speaks a dignified truth and is a death of fresh air in today's reality show news cycle
Well said
Thanks, Mr. Moyers, Mr. Hayes.
Footnote: "...So Much Dishonesty" will contribute to the decline and finally, to the Death of the Empire!
Very well put.
I wander why the Republicans are defending him. I just do not get it.
l Jones, Democrats wanted Nixon impeached for considering and talking about doing what Obama and the Clintons have been proven in court to have done.
Why shouldn’t Republicans fight on precedent and principle alone?
David Grover which court and what crimes were Clinton and Obama found guilty of committing and how is it they are still walking around as free men and not incarcerated like the rest of the criminals currently in jail?
Mervyn Stephens, That would be Judge Susan Webber Wright’s Court on Clinton’s Perjury Charge though that is not the only court to rule on the matter, the Clinton misuse of FBI files was adjudicated in several federal courts, the IRS admitted guilt for Obama’s IRS Targeting Scandal as part of a settlement I believe that was at the Federal court in Virginia, and finally we have Obama’s Operation Choke Point which the FDIC has to settle with some of Obama’s victims of the dirtbags secret gun control program.
Money &/or Compromat
I think republicans defend him because to do otherwise would be to against their family. It is totally tribal. The idea that the hated neighboring tribe is right and we are wrong would be an identity killing move. There is no reason, only an emotional reaction. Now the response to their emotional response has to be carefully crafted because they are so fragile. Anything you say will be interpreted as an attack.
The wisdom of Bill Moyers can be heard here. Reference to Robert J Lifton is important. Look up his credentials.
Chris made some very important points. I have a new respect for his commentary.
I agree, it was wonderful to see government governing! And a respect for the many, many people who are working to keep peace in the world!
Thank you, Bill Moyers.
That is true. We have to live in the truth. I believe that in the end the truth will prevail!
Well done
Bill looks and acts in great shape for his age. May he live long and prosper!
Yes Yes, Bill Moyers!!!
Truth will set you free!
I think of Trump as our Caligula, but most probably dumber.
God bless the two of you in your search for the truth in this donald trump shitstorm. Chris hope you're still around in the next 50 years advising your listeners about the trials and tribulations of politics. You can learn a lot from Mr. Moyers there.
“In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.”
― Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door
Librarian-at-Large only if they would throw him overboard.
I feel as though 30% of the US population is irredeemable. I've looked for redeeming qualities because this is the first time I've experienced real hatred for people but I cannot find any human character traits that are positive. Also, Trump supporters are a danger to the concept of truth, which bothers me the most. It's an attack on something important that we can't live without.
I love this man! Not only is Bill Moyers a walking journalism historian; he's an American institution, unabashed by lies and unafraid to speak truth to power when our democracy has reached the apex of blatant, open danger long lurking in the shadows. He's old school, before only six corporations and billionaires owned global media, both outright and in pieces in other smaller countries fighting for democracy and against corruption. Even US used the media in Chile, spending millions to spread propaganda in the coup via Chile's newspaper, "El Mercurio." We ousted Salvador Allende and put in Pinochet. End result was a total decimation of a democracy on the rise, thousands dead in the streets and proving yet again that our "democracy" is an illusion that surrendered to greed and corruption over a century ago. US is the new version of Queen Victoria's Great Britain, but includes her strategies in today's surreal politics...only much worse. In years past, PBS would've shown impeachment hearings during prime time, a given; that indicates that public tv isn't so public anymore. I learned so much watching the hearings; our foreign service diplomats do involved, difficult work, yet they remain non-partisan and true to democracy's cause. In today's global political climate and, with Trump as a president, the latter's gotta be the most difficult thing to do.
HRC said, "They want to change your reality."
Yeah, I was impressed with the quantity of the witnesses. Al least we are in good hands with them except maybe Morrison and Volcker. Also although mostly truthful, sondland seemed over his head and in the deep end of the pool.
Bill Moyers is a man of integrity and wisdom.
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
PBS had the best coverage of the proceedings
Moyers' documentaries about news, truth, etc. shaped the education and understand the world better. Time we had a re-release for this generation.
Moyers talking about truth, advertising, news, etc. in his films shaped my thought and politics since my twenties.
“Live in the truth”
The truth and light will prevail. Thank God 😊
Dan Ozomatli Gop is dead. Gop remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
Howlindsey Doody
@@patriot5846 what?
Dan Ozomatli Wylie said that Bannon's plans began to solidify in 2014, when Cambridge Analytica consulted various Republican campaigns and PACs ahead of the midterm elections. The company began to test and apply its psychographics by using Facebook data to model individuals' personality types in order to understand how to influence them.
Documents show the John Bolton Super PAC, which promoted candidates supported by recently appointed White House national security adviser John Bolton, paid Cambridge Analytical $454,700 in 2014 for "behavioral microtargeting with psychographic messaging." Those services included strategies that broke individual voters into "clusters" based on what messages would resonate with them.
Wylie also said the company used focus groups and messaging trials in 2014 to test some of the concepts that became core themes of the Trump campaign, such as "drain the swamp" and imagery of walls. "A lot of the narratives of the Trump campaign were what we were testing in 2014," Wylie said.
He added that Bannon directly presided over much of the company's initial research. "Everything that we were doing ultimately had to be passed up to Bannon for approval," said Wylie, who left the company in late 2014.
Wylie said Bannon would fly to London about once a month for company meetings, and during that time he came to understand Bannon's ideology. "He really liked the idea of using a military-style approach to changing people's perceptions," Wylie said.
Curt Devine, Donie O'Sullivan & Drew Griffin
CNN
According to the Times, Cambridge Analytica bought the data from Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian-American academic. Kogan, who told Facebook he was conducting academic research, built a Facebook personality quiz app called "thisisyourdigitalife." When users downloaded the app, it scraped all of their available Facebook data, including their friends, their likes and where they lived.
More than a quarter-million Facebook users downloaded the app, which also exploited a Facebook vulnerability that allowed it to to collect most of the same data from the friends of those who downloaded it. By prying into the friends lists of those who made the download, Kogan was able to get data from more than 50 million people.
Throughout 2015 and into 2016, the Cruz campaign paid Cambridge Analytica almost $6 million for data that the campaign used for what it called "psychographic targeting," which supposedly allowed the campaign to tailor its message to specific voters in places like Iowa and New Hampshire, where single voters can make a big difference. Using data from the firm, the campaign built profiles of potential voters, prioritizing those who fit in categories such as "stoic traditionalist" and "true believer".
In December 2015, the same month The Guardian revealed Cambridge Analytica and Kogan's data harvesting practices, Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler called the company a "market leader and the best in the field." Despite Tyler's claim that the Cruz campaign stopped using the firm's data in early 2016, it kept paying Cambridge Analytica until June of that year, a month after Cruz suspended his campaign. After Cruz dropped out of the race, the firm began working with Trump, supporting him through November's general election against Hillary Clinton.
Stephen Young
Dallas Observer
- Bannon got it immediately. He believes in the whole Andrew Breitbart doctrine that politics is downstream from culture, so to change politics you need to change culture. And fashion trends are a useful proxy for that. Trump is like a pair of Uggs, or Crocs, basically. So how do you get from people thinking ‘Ugh. Totally ugly’ to the moment when everyone is wearing them? That was the inflection point he was looking for.
Is what Cambridge Analytica does akin to bullying? - I think it’s worse than bullying, Christopher Wylie says. - Because people don’t necessarily know it’s being done to them. At least bullying respects the agency of people because they know. So it’s worse, because if you do not respect the agency of people, anything that you’re doing after that point is not conducive to a democracy. And fundamentally, information warfare is not conducive to democracy.
Millions of people’s personal information was stolen and used to target them in ways they wouldn’t have seen, and couldn’t have known about, by a mercenary outfit, Cambridge Analytica, who, Wylie says, “would work for anyone”. Who would pitch to Russian oil companies. Would they subvert elections abroad on behalf of foreign governments?
It occurs to me to ask Wylie this one night. - Yes.
Nato or non-Nato? - Either. I mean they’re mercenaries. They’ll work for pretty much anyone who pays.
It’s an incredible revelation. It also encapsulates all of the problems of outsourcing - at a global scale, with added cyberweapons. And in the middle of it all are the public - our intimate family connections, our “likes”, our crumbs of personal data, all sucked into a swirling black hole that’s expanding and growing and is now owned by a politically motivated billionaire.
Carole Cadwalladr
The Guardian
@@patriot5846 Next time maybe break the Prozac in half.
@@patriot5846 and this is why I deleted my Facebook account many years. Felt wrong and Zuckerberg is another f**king dush
He was 86 doing this interview , hope he is still healthy and sharp minded today. 2024
What a Class Guy
"To preempt any political talk around the family table this Thanksgiving, let me just say that twisted turkey looks thoroughly roasted, fully baked, and am delighted it's determined destiny is to be carved to pieces, gnashed to bits, and deservedly devoured completely, with an appetite that would do it justice!"
"...you have to live in the truth and you have to attach yourself to organizations that are trying to save the truth. If enough of us do that, we might yet save our democracy."
-Bill Moyers
I do enjoy watching this at some level. I don't mean to demean any of this. But ABC had a special last night on a class of middle schoolers who got the sum total of the whole situation very quickly in about three days. Just fyi folks.
People that say so and so is too old to be president...I'd take this octogenarian over 99.9% of the population for president. He has such a breadth of knowledge and understanding and total command of his faculties...so can we just evaluate on an individual basis?
I trust Bill Moyers because he's a honest individual!
VOTE!!