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Far. for example, the legal engineers, the lawyers, were able to have much greater influence than they ever had, and their idea of trail blazing legal strategy was to create corporate takeovers and mergers. or to create arbitration clauses that keep people out of the courts when they have a consumer dispute or a job discrimination dispute. so everything was tilted toward what i called the protected in this country at the expense of the vast majority in this country who were the unprotected. and that's where we purpose and those unprotected became so frustrated that 46% of them decided to vote ...

Themselves. that's the country we have today. >> was it done with malice? >> no, not at all. this was -- these were smart people striving achieving and they were doing what makes america great, it's just that the usual guardrails didn't work because they were so smart and so driven that they were able to go too far. for example, the legal engineers, the lawyers were able to have, you know, much greater influence than they ever had. their idea of trailblazing legal strategy was to create a, you know, corporate takeovers and mergers and fights or to create arbitration clauses that keep, you know...

Corporate takeover fights and they created the legal precedent for the arbitration clauses that are keeping the middle-class out of the courts when they have a job discrimination claim or a consumer rights claim so the knowledge economy typically ended up with liberal lawyers coming out of liberal law schools going to liberal law firms and doing the legal engineering that caused all the discontent that we have of the middle-class today. the paul weiss law firm, for example, in new york, a notable bastion of democrats, they did the legal engineering for the jp stevens company when they figured ...

Schools went off to law schools like i did, like yale and harvard, and their knowledge economy was legal engineering and financial engineering. it was stock buy backs and corporate take over fights. and they created the legal precedent for the arbitration clauses that are keeping the middle class out of the courts when they have a job discrimination claim. >> right. >> or, you know, a consumer rights claim. so, the knowledge economy typically ended up with liberal lawyers who were coming out of liberal law schools going to liberal law firms and doing the legal engineering that caused all the d...

Arbitration clauses can get at that issue is by having some open proceeding, being able to reveal in public without the nondisclosure agreements that are forced on them some kind of public accountability. that's what we want from uber. >> have they been responsive? >> so far not, but i'm hoping that they will not only eliminate the arbitration clause, but also allow these people who have been physically assaulted, raped, abused, to have their day in court. >> senator richard blumenthal, always great to talk to you, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> chris. will the latest cre...