Major contributions so far has been completely devalued the idea of Regulatory Oversight and so you. Department of education. Pruitt. And these people who are essentially trying to dismantle government oversight from within the e. P. A. Is regulators people that are jeffs. Hundreds of thousands and then you add to its much a slate of gambits like the tax cut like this recent bank lobbyist. Partial repeal of the dot frank act theyve been on their wish list for ages the stuff thousands tens of thousands of lobbyist essentially are writing the legislation every once in a while a bill will be submitted and the the lobbying firms name will be on it because the congressman messed up you know by not taking it off my question represented god well somewhat heres what represent me im just curious does it have does the legislation have some connection to alec this bill didnt come to me from alec answered your question but the reason i ask is because earlier you passed out a handout that says got walt at the top and it says Health Care Compact and theres a logo right in the middle of that page and i went to the elec website and there is exactly the same the same file the same size in the same logo. Pane promised after the president that how to quote do a big number on the dot frank act oh he is the Financial Sector lobbying has succeeded in persuading the house of representatives. To prove the biggest rollback of banking rules in stone frank. And change the Bank Lobbyists came to capitol hill and pressured lawmakers to weaken their safeguards to rollback those regulations although it was mostly republicans who voted for this measure democrats who are some of the biggest recipients of bank money also voted with republicans to roll back the signature accomplishment of the Obama Administration. Made jim a 2nd when i was a leaf on our porter with the intercept. Sergeant record hi my name is leaf on. Why is Congress Moving to remove some of those dodd frank protections designed to prevent another crisis those protections were actually extended into the Community BankingCenter Ground which did not have a cascade effect and i helped write the right and ive defended it for 9 years and like a lot of people i think that there were areas in which dodd frank said a little heavy on our smaller institutions but youre in some instances having difficulty lending making small loans to Small Businesses so i know you have a history in the Banking Sector work to Goldman Sachs do you think that any influence on your decision about this what this is not a wall street bill this was a bill about providing relief to smaller communities to suntrust in the face of so many other regional stadium banks now sara was small right no no they dont as installed were 10 years after the financial crisis but congress has moved to repeal some of these big you voted with republicans sought to repeal as i write i voted to support the Community Banks the bill was entirely about citi group along with some of these Community Bankers and other banks trade associations really had the hill they had a lot of lobbyist working on there you have it with the city do you think that the banking lobby and their Campaign Donations had any influence over 2000 a fiasco that the bank said no no right. Im mad today you ask me what do they have any influence over the vote. Banking lobby have any influence on this vote actually go to see office and take it along months in advance were thrilled with this its the Community Banks that like. Yes i did support the Community Bank bill and i think when people mess with this service and what things are that makes it really hard all right one last question you said the regional banks are doing very well thank you all right. Are you concerned that the banking lobby Bank Lobbyists have influence over this bill that they have too much influence here on capitol hill absolutely i think the banks the gun lobby the pharma lobby all have too much influence here in congress this bill 252500 1000000 in the kinds of things j. P. Morgan so you think the kinds of things that talking about are not small banks so i dont know that anybody with a straight face can say this is an answer to that question this is. Couching small banks in order to give big banks relief from these rate necessary regulations thank you so much take care. In response to obamas one effort to clean up influence peddling in washington lobbyist simply deregistered became more secretive thousands of lobbyist said were not even going to comply with the Registration System and were going to move into the shadows and continue to influence government but without disclosing what were doing on paper there are Something Like 9000 or 10000 registered lobbyist but in reality that the number is closer 2100000. On paper lobbyist spend about 3000000000 or so every year influencing the federal government but in reality that number is closer to 9 or 10000000000. Who serves in the Bush Administration now. And. General Company Better saves a lot of military contracts what do you how do you feel about this issue of senior military officials government officials going to a large firms that receive Major Military contracts. As executive Vice President of a major defense for vets receive billions of dollars in defense contracts. To interface with the pentagon have you spoken to either Obama Administration officials or travel ministration officials on contracting issues. Excuse me Fran Townsend here with just a quick moment i dont want to take too much of your time. Shake and i host a welcome to washington fundraisers for you my law firm on k. Street absolutely at 500 dollars and you can pick up 2025 grand get started in the. History of the species very much a history of domination exploitation no pressure in the hatred contempt and then the kalama veiling forces the count of meaning voices against domination against a tree against and so youve got this struggle going on but thats what democracy is all about how do you interrupt the dominance cycles of domination oprah ssion hatred in the end resent we is concerned for compassion in the specially concern for the most vulnerable. Poor and the the weak. And the history democracy is like the history of the blues. The. Because the blues is about catastrophe overwhelming catastrophe that seems to suffocate the great efforts. Of improvement. And yet one steel keeps keeping one steel tries to tell the truth one steel tries to fight for justice looks like youre going to make a breakthrough good morning hardy kirit is again. I was but its also one in which you recognize no im so surprised when you have brink to the breakthrough is a real and so it isnt democracy. One step forward 2 steps back 3 steps forward 2 steps back thats the history of who we are as a species both wonderful and terrible at the same time. Aspirational and visionary on the one hand. And no precedent. In the blue zones then she had to track both poles at same time and always preserve not your optimism preserve your hope your prisoner of hope the corporate elites they want to divide. They want to divide and conquer it is a strategy as old as the leaks who emerged from the cave in the history of speech. In some cities in california los angeles and San Francisco in particular but their biggest threat. Black males who are involved in this crime and violence so keep the political commentary to yourself or as someone once said shut up and dribble. Well be right back. Thats the fundamental threat. They do all that they can to cultivate divisions all that they can. I dont meet those goals even some of my Friends School jane this is true if you are you may think i ceased is slopestyle for the most you by going by each little. Moment if you look at us now our life influx of all you. Dont change your most a lifestyle change. That illustrates but its quite a mess and not just a but the style of. Which im. Thinking. Most of the. First year or more its better to picture slow. Korda. But because of that. There is a. New push to launch the comments about it more so. 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One of the current president of the slots that it would be good for her to do for this like you know our family is a good family man and you should come to our environment. And its just like that reality im so tired of best cycle that we see in a city that is happens you know i mean we had to eat some nights so i had to go do what i had to do you know maybe in the streets and ran the streets for. You know and im just blessed that im able to be here and be a parent now i guess my whole focus in life is just to give market a better life to my. We have to understand its because of course were talking about capitalism more production no is talking about. Realities because a profit maximisation is one that it lead to concerned about gaining access to low wage markets all over the world that has devastated so many poor working people of all colors places like camden where you have precious Black Brothers and sisters youve got White Supremacy shot through this is the same capitalist process. And of course as historically the case slave holding capitalism for over 200 years jim crow capitalism former 90 years and the jim crow jr had to do with what not just devastating industrial working class as a do the escalation of mass incarceration only to to cripple the educational system into indecent owing to communities and families. Out the racism is. Terrifying its core to the problem so is the sexism which we dont talk about enough they are essentially promising to for store hierarchy in which people know their place which men get their place this is what we refer to as patriarchy this is a society that runs around the sort of structure of a family where the man is the head of the family except the man is the head of society cam to get d. s White Supremacy forces capitalist forces patriarchal forces a most checkmate. Precious brothers and sisters. Were not accidental bits and pieces in different places it all fit together in a very old fashion way. Its all really about taking us back. To essentially a pre democratic period. Was all really about a battle that the losers after 1900 never accept. And portrayed as a defeat of their right as the own us as the most powerful people. So bit by bit they put it back together again. And thats why you know in 1905 i felt i had to say things like were in the midst of a coup detat in slow motion. The world is a. College of corporations. Inexorably determined by the. Immutable laws of business. The world. Is a business mr b. Has been since man crawled out of the. Chase. Weve lost the ability to think. Images on screens are ubiquitous. The truth is they want to ban every drug in america certainly illegal immigration is 100 percent about voting 24 hours a day the democratic push russia narrative collusion narrative narrative we are bombarded with images. And those images are confused with no. Clothes no water that turned up. We confuse how we are made to feel with. The game we cant success thats what its all about success trump stakes are by far the best tasting most flavorful beef youve ever had because when america is United America is totally unstoppable be totally honest with you even if its not united were unstoppable so i dont work. In understanding how systems of power work which you can only grasp. By investing yourself in a print based culture reading John Ralston Saul reading noam chomsky. But in a post Literate Society the books are still there but nobody picks them up anymore. Brother bill great to meet you good to see you yeah really great to meet you new green owner well known as mine no. Question which american. But without tool of magination vision and courage shattering the indifference and sharing the callousness and thats the challenge i discern fight back in the attacks but also how did you conceive of every day people actually seize with the fire for a better world alternative but i think they are if they can figure out how to do it if they can feel that they are involved that its about them and i think the great disaster of the last. 30 years is that a large part of. The liberal elite has basically given in to a large part of the themes of being basically anti democratic elite and so they they they theyre then created to discourse a top down discourse which excluded people is it which really made those people who are the who are the guarantors of democracy the holder of the citizen made them feel excluded and once they feel excluded they start getting mad and they get mad or theres a new day coming those signs of hope the Younger Generation concerned about not do psychological crisis the planet concern the bugs the walls to. How do you mean getting all of us in though its unpredictable here in Indian History is a mystery just like love in life you just dont know we none of us have control you know when the the ruling classes think that there might be but they did not almighty theyre going to fall sooner or later we dont know what form we just hope it isnt neal fast as we hope that it doesnt return to the most barbaric and be still love. Of aspects of our condition the human condition that its inside of all of us you know its inside the hatred and the gangsta lite proclivities inside every human being. And i think theres a. Present there is. Yes were always there so its all kind of. That whereas i was hungry and i think then date i help everybody here dont quote wherever i might. Take we were. There simply out there to. Pick up. Right now kind of tell me i have to be here and help the people here was. When i went on that then. I put other people far. You know ive always been fascinated by them are modified. In august and you see them heading south. And of course theyre going to head south across the United States to mexico where theyre all winter. And it takes about 3 generations to do the round trip so in fact known butterfly can be a god. There is no butterfly who knows how to do this who knows where to go. Theyre part of a civilization theyre part of a of a community theyre part of something which understands without knowing. Theyre a reminder to me of really how civilizations work were all part of something just deeply deeply injured and and this is the enormous flaw in the Corporate Star game and that you can sort of slice everybody up into their Interest Groups and then get somebody with whose economy you know miscellany and trump like figure who uses emotion to hold it all together and isnt actually the way Society Works and all. Soon fosli grossmans great novel once and she. Writes about the evils of both communism and fascism the evils of idiology still seek to exterminate whole numbers of opponents people whether theyre condemned by because of class or race. And in the novel he talks about the power of human kindness which he witnessed as a war correspondent he was installing rather well. All the way to berlin. And he said that the power of that human kindness me us that. It is not humankind that has empathy in the face of evil. But evil that is impotent in the face of humankind. Because it is never able to crush that small kernel of class. And i think thats right. I think that. We probably only save the world one person at a time as well as for years of all. That those small unheralded acts of compassion. Are what keep us human and ultimately are the seeds by which we can rise up again. They are a reality was. Planted larry. Larry. Larry you. Also made it. Very well. As the u. S. Economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. You can work 40 hours d in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still has the lead up to the reality of it were not financially equality and the lack of Affordable Housing for a living minimum wage gave many people no choice. Thats been a problem with the city knows turn around and told me stay away i dont know miss colton simms of conservatives if there is no answer because yes that requires resources the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible comes. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on often spearing Dramatic Development the only place really im going to exist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. Was a pandemic no certainly no borders and just blind to nationalities. As a muddled up with the we dont have the facts in the world teach to. Judge a. Commentary crisis with this system to. We can do better we should. Everyone is contributing to each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been much so many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that were in it together. Walking to freedom begins releasing some of those detained during mass protests over last weekends election and make claims of Widespread Police Brutality while the doctor shares her experience. With you much of the women were in line of the army and the men who were in the next hour they were constantly believe so badly that they just how well. Ill assign slums a new peace deal between israel and the United Arab Emirates as an accepted trail brokered by the u. S. That will see Israels West Bank and they say sometimes put on hold but not about hundreds. Of tensions spike in the mediterranean as france says it will bolster its military presence there to monitor these activities in disputed waters