Couch the people built this cut at its the people who are making America Great again. The clintons and the obama was all oh they talked about families and children and justice and so on maintained these rights for corporations promoted the right of their companies to do whatever they want to around the world in a strange way it was those who might oppose trump right now who set the stage for him to be elected it was the very policies that hold out north america i mean we created huge pockets of poverty weve never had in 100 years the same difference between rich and poor the the class differences incredible they set the stage for a savior obama was supposed to be that savior and he wasnt and what happens after a savior fails you you look to something very different they set the table in my opinion for dont. Success do you find this contradictory in any way to the. A cabinet full of millionaires a situation where some of them have been accused of misusing their offices in terms of the use of lavishness of those offices so on and so forth. To trump state a promise to drain the swamp if you will i dont think he drained it i think he moved it into the white house. So they didnt drain the swamp and just moved to dinner. I think every politician is probably abuse there are. Why dont we totally drain the swamp. Why are we the people more actively involved. Major contributions of far has been completely devalued the idea of Regulatory Oversight and so you know. Department of education or scott pruitt d. P. A. 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 elec it 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 out 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 instilled frank. James the Bank Lobbyist 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. Jim 2nd when i was a leaf on number of quarter with the intercept. Hi my name is leaf on. Why is Congress Moving to remove some of those dodd frank protections was designed to prevent another crisis those tensions were actually extended into the Community Banking sector ground which did not have a cascade effect and i helped write the right and i 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 is a bill about providing relief to smaller communities to suntrust and theres only so many other regional stadium banks now sarah was small right no no they dont as installed were 10 years after the financial crisis but congress is moving to hold some of these big you voted with republicans softer bill as i write i voted to support the Community Banks the bill was entirely about you sitting group along with some of these Community Bankers and other big trade associations really hit the hill they had a lot of lobbyist working on there you have it would be so huge 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 asked me that question do they have any influence over the vote. And banking lobby have any influence on this vote go to see office and takes. A lot of the Big Money Center banks 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 had 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 can say this is an answer to that question this is. Couching small banks in order to give big banks relief from these write 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 served in the Bush Administration now. And. General Company Better see if 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 give it 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 of veiling forces the count of mailing 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 b. N. Resent we is concerned for compassion in the specially concern for the most vulnerable. Poor and the weak. And the history democracy is like the history of the blues. The blues is about catastrophe overwhelming catastrophe that seems to suffocate a 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 of which you recognize and know 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 we both wonderful and terrible. Aspirational and visionary on the one hand. And on presses. In the blues on stand she cant you check both polls 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 eclipse who emerged from the cave in the history of speech. Some cities in california los angeles and San Francisco in particular but their biggest threat are criminal. Other black males who are involved in this crime and violence to keep the political commentary to yourself or as someone once said shut up and terrible. Will be right back. Thats the fundamental threat. They do all that they can to cultivate divisions all that they can. Well the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. As americans we dont come with the we dont look like seeing the whole world needs to be. Judged as commentary classes. We can do better we should. Everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is critical to response has been masked so many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. In the early ninetys. 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And its just like that reality im so tired of best cycle that we see in a city this 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 you know is talking about global realities because a profit maximisation is one that it lead to concerned about gaining access to low wage markets were 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. 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Its all really about taking us back. To essentially a pre democratic period. Was all really about a battle that the losers after 900 never accept. And portrayed as a defeat of their right as the own as the most powerful people. That 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 gun in america certainly illegal immigration is 100 percent about 24 hours a day the democratic push brusha narrative illusion narrative. We are bombarded with images. And those images are confused with no. Clothes no water to turn the friggin frogs 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 one america is United America is totally unstoppable although ill be totally honest with you even if its not united were unstoppable. 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 to imagine is in vision and courage shattering the indifference and shattering the callousness and thats the challenge i discern fight back in texas but how did you conceive of every day people actually sees 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 a Younger Generation concerned about not do psychological crisis the planet concerned above the walls. People how do you know us in though its unpredictable in Indian History is a mystery just lanka 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 fasces we hope that it doesnt return to the most barbaric and be still love. 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Theyre part of a civilization theyre part of out of a community theyre part of something which understands without knowing. Their reminder to me of really how civilizations work were all part of something just deeply deeply into rove and and this is the enormous flaw in the corporatist argument that you can sort of slice everybody up into their Interest Groups and then get somebody who is a con of you know miscellany and trump like figure who uses emotion to hold it all together and isnt actually the way Society Works and all. Some fosli grossmans great novel once and for 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 a few kindness which he witnessed as a war correspondent he was in stone when. All the way to the. End he said that the power of that human kindness me is that. It is not humankind that is and that 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 class. And i think thats right. I think that. We probably only save the world one person at a time although i was aware years ago. That those small unheralded acts of compassion. Are what keep us human and ultimately are the seeds by which we can rise up again. The i. Am a woman a reality was. A ladder larry. Larry. Larry who. Also lives in. A round. 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 is the way of opportunity the reality of it is 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 will always turn around and told me stay away i dont miss. 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