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. steve: shady pay to play donations part of politics for generations, a part of the swamp most people think never will be drained. can a conservative with concerns with campaign finance reform really work? joining me is john putnam. great to see you. weve talked about this many times before. explain to our audience what you think needs to be done to tackle this problem of the big money donors corrupting politics? >> campaign finance can be positive. we want to bring the reagan era tax credits w...

I mean, the reason people are leaking in this administration is that president trump has lost the trust of his government across the board. this is not so simple as bring in the mooch, scaramucci, fire a bunch of people and all of a sudden people are not going to leak to the press. hes lost the trust of the government across the board given the style and chaotic nature of the first six months in office, and its going to be much, much, much more difficult without a dramatic overhaul of management...

Entertaining for people, i think getting things done in government is really hard. ive been there trying to do this. youve got to be on the same page. they are on wildly different pages at the moment. >> this is a man who ran on the platform of being a great manager, great business person and turn it into great companies. the zoo, its literally been a zoo for the first six months, what i would say is he needs to figure out how to get this under control, and its not nearly as simple, again, as cl...

Clear up tax credits and thrown out accidentally in 8and 6 we never put it back in. steve: fascinating, did reagan introduce it? >> preexisted reagan in the early 70s. anyone who wrote a check for or against him got write it off on the taxes, a small check. steve: the political fence thinks about the question of campaign finance reform, is that the liberal thing to stop political speech and its unconstitutional? >> they dont like the word. daal drain the swamp, if you want. the word isnt importa...

There was an omnibus measure to clear up tax credits and thrown out accidentally in 8and 6 we never put it back in. steve: fascinating, did reagan introduce it? >> preexisted reagan in the early 70s. anyone who wrote a check for or against him got write it off on the taxes, a small check. steve: the political fence thinks about the question of campaign finance reform, is that the liberal thing to stop political speech and its unconstitutional? >> they dont like the word. daal drain the swamp, if...

. steve: shady pay to play donations part of politics for generations, a part of the swamp most people think never will be drained. can a conservative with concerns with campaign finance reform really work? joining me is john putnam. great to see you. weve talked about this many times before. explain to our audience what you think needs to be done to tackle this problem of the big money donors corrupting politics? >> campaign finance can be positive. we want to bring the reagan era tax credits w...

Donald trump off the hook here. i mean, the reason people are leaking in this administration is that president trump has lost the trust of his government across the board. this is not so simple as bring in the mooch, scaramucci, fire a bunch of people and all of a sudden people are not going to leak to the press. hes lost the trust of the government across the board given the style and chaotic nature of the first six months in office, and its going to be much, much, much more difficult without a...

Ill be interested to see whether president trump can deliver on the promise he talked so much on the campaign trail. steve: very specific example of fulfilling the drain the swamp agenda if he does clamp down on this. >> for sure, this is a great example why big government is such a problem. there are so many problems, spending so much of our taxpayer dollars, its impossible. this is a complex issue, hard for americans to understand. in your segment. people had no idea what it was, and people wa...

>> i think youre letting donald trump off the hook here. i mean, the reason people are leaking in this administration is that president trump has lost the trust of his government across the board. this is not so simple as bring in the mooch, scaramucci, fire a bunch of people and all of a sudden people are not going to leak to the press. hes lost the trust of the government across the board given the style and chaotic nature of the first six months in office, and its going to be much, much, much...

Things change. ill be interested to see whether president trump can deliver on the promise he talked so much on the campaign trail. steve: very specific example of fulfilling the drain the swamp agenda if he does clamp down on this. >> for sure, this is a great example why big government is such a problem. there are so many problems, spending so much of our taxpayer dollars, its impossible. this is a complex issue, hard for americans to understand. in your segment. people had no idea what it was...