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Harvard law professor. we asked him to give us his three best -- three of his favorite examples of things we can do and the first one you offered up was citizens funded election elections. >> the basic idea is small dollar contributions. there's a bill in the house close to this. basically this would say no more than $100 from any citizen to any candidate, and the fair elections now act matches that four to one, so that it's only small dollars. >> does that apply to corporations as well? >> well, corporations can't give directly to candidates. and right now because of the supreme court, we can...

Break the debilitating dependency they have on private campaign contributions. they spend between 30 and 70% of their time raising money. they are like a driver driving down the road texting. the only way to fix that is a different way of funding. citizen fix funding. >> that would have to be through a constitutional amendment? >> no. you can actually right now pass a law, and congress has one before them, a bill supported by congressman larson and jones, republican from north carolina, that would create opt-in system where candidates, for every $100 they raise from a citizen get four times th...