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We have jennifer granholm. ladies, thank you for being here. governor, ill start with you. did donald trump effectively divert attention from his alleged sexual abuses to bill clintons alleged sexual abuses? >> he sure tried. obviously the press conference was an effort to do that. he went right back at it during the debate. ultimately what will live on is the tape from friday and the other scores of anti-women and anti-immigrant and anti-you name it comments he made. from the very first questio...

Offic office, and there is a different moment in the politicians -- >> how dare you. i dare you. >> trust me, as progressive as anyone and my organization has been fighting to rein in wall streets abuses, and we know what we get with hillary clinton. >> do you trust her? >> actually, in some ways and knowing that someone is such a politician that they actually go to the center of the political moment has made it, i think easier for the progressives to know how the organize. i am serious. after j...

Does the city deal with it. they allege it was a cover-up of abuses fostered upon citizens by officers employed by members of the chicago p.d. >> when we talk about whats going on in chicago and the uphill questions for the mayor rahm emanuel as well as the police department there, explain the connective tissue why this resonates, because of laquan mcdonald, right? >> right. laquan mcdonald was the case that led to everything in chicago that people have seen recently, including the firing of chi...

And then when the bush administration came in obviously, you know, they lowered the top rates and thankfully that expired. so we are now in a position i think where we can go after some of these schemes that you did read about, the kind of misclassifying of income, trying to make it look like its a capital gain when its really ordinary income. going ahead and routing income through the bahamas or the cayman islands or wherever. so i want to have a surcharge so wherever the income comes from, wha...

Whatever the income is, it would be on the adjusted gross income and it would give us a chance to try to get around and end some of these abuses that are taking place in the tax system. >> you talked about not -- growing middle-class incomes, not taxes, raising taxes on the middle class. and theres a little bit of a debate right now on what the definition of middle class is. my understanding is your campaign is essentially saying no taxes on households earning less than $250,000. but thats still...

Smaller institutions can be irresponsible. countrywide did all these bad mortgages. if we had had glass-steagall, it would not have prevented the abuses of the crisis. it would have done nothing to have stopped the derivative regulation. but heres the problem. he does not say how small the institutions have to be. lehman brothers -- the failure of lea lehman brothers, again not a bank, not affected by glass stegall. they went under. they were very snal. if youre telling me with cannot have any f...

Would not have prevented the abuses of the crisis. it would have done nothing to have stopped the derivative regulation. but heres the problem. he does not say how small the institutions have to be. lehman brothers -- the failure lehman brothers, again not a bank, not affected by glass stegall. they went under. they were very small. if youre telling me with cannot have any financial institution in america that if it totally failed it, could cause stress, i guess nobody could be as big as lehman ...

Mortgages. if we had had glass-steagall, it would not have prevented the abuses of the crisis. it would have done nothing to have stopped the derivative regulation. but heres the problem. he does not say how small the institutions have to be. lehman brothers -- the failure lehman brothers, again not a bank, not affected by glass stegall. they went under. they were very small. if youre telling me with cannot have any financial institution in america that if it totally failed it, could cause stres...

The past. and so i think those are good programs. i think what shes offered on the prescription drug abuse and heroin problem, on the alzheimers issue, on many other health issues that we face are good. i think it is obvious that now we got 90% of our people insured, we got to keep going the rest of the way. but i want to say to you, theres a story in the paper today about how young people are leading the way this year in increasing enrollment in the health care plans. more than 2 million of the...

And to no avail. that they have been ignored to the point where they have not even responded back at all. i myself and along with many other organizations and influential people have contacted these representatives and the county sheriff asking them to get involved. and all we have been asking from the very beginning is that they put together an evidential hearing board to look at the evidences, look at the accusations that are set forth and to look at the abuses that the hammonds have been expe...