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Sitting there. i know that you recently worked out some deal with the old post office in d.c., 14,000 buildings. do you have advice for the federal government, business advice what do do? >> real estate is my primary thing in life. i would say century, they could be auctioned off if they are good f. they are not good, perhaps you cant auction them off. this is a time when buying real estate is a good thing. you can buy real estate. people would like to buy real estate and hiring good brokers to ...

Their voice heard and think that doing it collectively is the most effective way to do it? >> theres a couple issues. one, the supreme court didnt have to take the radical step it did to unleash the power of corporate treasuries on the election system in order to deal with the issue. they didnt want to. there was so many ways they could have done it. they could have said it wasnt an election year. they reached out deliberately wanted to decide this decision in as big a way possible. what we have...

Other groups that want to have their voice heard and think that doing it collectively is the most effective way to do it? >> theres a couple issues. one, the supreme court didnt have to take the radical step it did to unleash the power of corporate treasuries on the election system in order to deal with the issue. they didnt want to. there was so many ways they could have done it. they could have said it wasnt an election year. they reached out deliberately wanted to decide this decision in as b...

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So i think its a message thats resonating with people and has broad appeal, and its spot-on in terms of its message about focusing on, you know, we are the 99% and focusing a lot of its grievance on, you know, the fact that our political system does not seem to be able to look out for the common good at this point. >> yeah. and a lot of the reason, obviously, that i believe that, and a couple hundred thousand other folks agree with me, at this point, growing very quickly, is that because of the ...

American public. it doesnt work for jobs, it doesnt work for our companies. >> at this point, i dont think the american people need to be informed of the problem. i think the american people are confused as to why the president and the treasury department have not stepped up to the plate to defend america and the biggest question is, how big is the onslaught of money as we know that the auction process is best to spend money to prevent legislation, that is why the banks spend money, that is why ...

Were increasingly given more and more contributions. and it was almost always the lawmakers who got more contributions from these industries that voted against the legislation that would reform it. >> and again, if you remember from our reporting on friday, 93 or 94% of the time, the campaign -- or the candidate who spends the most money wins. if youre wondering if money is determinative, the person with the most money wins. to that end, we did a podcast with tom ferguson at the university of ma...

Candidate ones or ones that are sort of associated with a political party, and that candidates can raise money for them. maybe leadership posts will go to those who can raise the most money for a super pac from a corporation or a union. >> and lisa, how distorting to a policy debate is it to have the chairmanship in committees, whether its democrats or republicans, determined by an auction process for who can raise the most money? >> i mean, we arent going to have an honest policy debate in this...

2012. >> and you would think as long as we keep the the gerrymandering, however, and the auction process, martin, for the process, whoever replaces them will likely be equally bought. >> yeah, if you have confidence that there will be a big wave election and everything will change again, youre not paying close attention. i mean, its only fitting that this final debate of the year is another 11th hour crisis that congress created. i mean, we already almost had a government shutdown. remember, pre...

But i think that is the job that we have got to undertake. >> and that would seem to be, if you look at the history of amendments and this sort of task to this magnitude, it will only be if everybody, this is not a left/right issue. you can only assert power on this level if you do it all together all at once, is that not correct? >> absolutely. were going to need a real grass roots movement, and youre beginning to see it. i mean, this is what this occupying wall street is about. its saying enou...