Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith goes to washington scenario. And certainly that does happen. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. But my experience over the last 20 years or so in washington politics researching and writing, more often than not the opposite is true. You have a lot of corporations, other lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government, and you have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. The
Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith gooas i call this the Jimmy Stewart washington scenario and that does happen. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces but my experience in the washington politics in the writing is so often not the opposite is true but you have a lot of corporations into a lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government and the executive branch looking for ways in which to have their needs to get the corporations involved. The hightech industry as a classic example if you look back 15, 20 years ago the
Im fast, im pretty and cant possibly be beat. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor George Stephanopoulos. Good morning. The world is remembering muhammad ali this week. A legendary champ thanks to his fast hands, even faster mouth. Im not the greatest, im the double greatest, he said. Its hard to be humble when youre as great as i am. Ali knew how to get inside his opponents head, and all through the primaries donald trump showed he could do exactly the same thing with tough talk, taunts and labels that stuck. The big question for him now, will those same tactics work in a general election . Does trump have to change to win . In this weeks latest round of the president ial fight, trump declared hes not changing at all, and Hillary Clinton is following his lead. This week, fists flew in the streets of san jose and donald trump combative as ever on the stump. Is this what its going to be like covering you if youre had president . Yeah, it is. Were going to have
Donald trump coming under fire after trump tweeted his respects. Dont tell us how much you love muhammad ali and yet youre going to be prejudiced against muslims in this country. Hillary clinton also taking aim as we look ahead to tuesdays crucial california primary. And the nba showdown, the cavs versus the warriors. Lebron james and steph curry ready to face off. Who will be the king of the court . And even one of the biggest names in basketball has to respect the pecking order at home. Im like on the third of the totem pole probably. Our oneonone with the players. Hey, good morning, everybody. And as we look at the growing carpet of flowers and gifts and cards outside of the Muhammad Ali Center in louisville, were learning much more about the elaborate plans for the funeral coming up in just days. Meanwhile, the death of this legend is only adding to the vitriol out on the campaign trail. We will have more on that in a moment. But we start with the wildfire threatening thousands of
Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor George Stephanopoulos. Good morning. The world is remembering muhammad ali this week. A legendary champ thanks to his fast hands, even faster mouth. Im not the greatest, im the double greatest, he said. Its hard to be humble when youre as great as i am. Ali knew how to get inside his opponents head, and all through the primaries donald trump showed he could do exactly the same thing with tough talk, taunts and labels that stuck. The big question for him now, will those same tactics work in a general election . Does trump have to change to win . In this weeks latest round of the president ial fight, trump declared hes not changing at all, and Hillary Clinton is following his lead. This week, fists flew in the streets of san jose and donald trump combative as ever on the stump. Is this what its going to be like covering you if youre had president . Yeah, it is. Were going to have this kind of confrontation in the press room.