fits that conservative right wing free market ideology as you and i both know unions have no place in that kind of mindset and so these think tanks have not just this year but for decades laid a ground work, have pushed legislators, have tried as hard as they doon knee cap unions and knee cap collective bargaining rights for organized labor which as you said is one way to knock out the middle class. well how many of thieves laws that we re seeing being proposed are actually coming from these think tanks directing elected officials, directing officials to go ahead and write the legislation this way and then coming back and filtering money into the campaigns? what about that? the think tanks don t give campaign contributions. that s they re 501c3 nonprofits but my reporting turned up other kinds of pressure. it comes in policy briefings, some think tanks can lobby lawmakers so it s not quite
wants his voice heard, it would be wise to go back to on camera every day. lynne, back to you, last word on this topic, what should viewers know about press access at the white house for you and your colleagues? you have access if you mean by just getting physically into the west wing briefing area, you can get in. if you talk about access to different press people, to people who do policy briefings, you don t have it because they don t do these kinds of briefings in the multiplicity that other administrations did. they do some phone briefings. so if you talk about access means that you can get in to see people easier, faster, sooner, you don t have that now. we still have the access of seeing the people who work in the press apparatus and lower what we call lower and upper press, that sean and sarah and some other people who are part of the press workings of the west wing. so you physically have that, but