In bed with wall street. This week nomi rins, all the president s bankers. And at the former wall street executives explicit multigenerational relationships to the political worlds that are the basis of power and influence in the u. S. The program is about an hour. Host welcome. I am pleased to have a wall street insider and renowned journalist, author and speaker, nomi prins at chase manhattan bank, lehman brothers, bear stearns, director of Goldman Sachs with a distinguished career on wall street has only distinguished herself further by sharing her expertise by the written and spoken words. Widely sought after by the outlets shes written a number of acclaimed works including other peoples money it takes a pillage and black tuesday. She joins me to discuss the most recent work all of the president s bankers they had their alliances that drives american power. Welcome and congratulations on such a study of this book as we take a look into washington, wall street and the families that
Them money, but the entire industry. All the president s bankers the hidden alliances that drive american power. We will speak with nomi prins about the 100 year history of collusion between washington and wall street. In shining a light on the nsa black budget. We will go to capitol hill to speak with commerce member peter welch is sponsoring the bill to force the president to include the total dollar amount requested for each of the 16 intelligence agencies. Then, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging u. S. Governments killing of three americans in yemen in drone strikes. We will get reaction from attorney maria lahood. The constitution clearly applies to our awlaki because he is u. S. Citizen, so he is guaranteed due process. If the Us Government can kill a u. S. Citizen in yemen, that not only expands the global war, but also means a u. S. Citizen can be killed anywhere by our government. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the w