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Having me, chris. i appreciate the opportunity to talk with you tonight. you make some great points, senator sanders makes some great points. i agree the quality of care we're seeing, especially locally in new york city, if veterans can access that care and if they are choosing to access that care, there is actually some excellent care to be had. the manhattan v.a. has one of the best prosthetic care programs in the country. and so, i hear a lot of veterans being happy with their care but again, access is the issue. so, america has around 21 million veterans but fewer than 6 million of those v...

Right. they're not about faith or ethics anymore, they're not focused in school, parents aren't pushing them, they're to the supported when they get in trouble. it seems there is an argument to be made that there is a breakdown in american values. >> there's always a breakdown in american values. in the 1920s, they were talking about martin luther king and rosa parks. many of the groups she talks about come here through self-selection. if i were to go to nigeria and pull out 50 people and drop them in the middle of america, i would suspect they'd have the same outcome. there's a difference bet...

Going to do and what type can rise to the top and enter into the primaries and get the right money behind them. they self-select their positions of policies that conform. we have a strange system where they can't communicate with the candidate or coordinate. there's all different ways to coordinate rather than communications. i think you have a shaping of ideology that is going to flow. frankly, this is going to be too big of a business and too profitable for those within the system for there to be much push for reform. a candidate or member staffer to go and profit off those super pacs, it's ...

Communications model with high signal transfer and everything you have going for you, the decision to enroll people who are the most vested in it by self selection for giving you money to do this in east village. how important is that in founding those first followers? >> this campaign was incredible in a lot of ways. we had, we now have, you know, over 3,000 individuals who have raised their hands and said that they are interested in supporting us either a dollar, $5 or in some cases, many thousands of dollars of support. so here we have, now the, as james mentioned, beginning of a real movem...

Conversation with a reporter where you're trying to convince them, no, you've got that wrong, don't go with that. it's not always a clash, doesn't have to be. paul: and what's your advice to those of us in the press corps if we really want to do our job which is to explain to the american public what's going on? >> i'm old-fashioned. be neutral, be accurate, be fair. i've got to tell you, paul, i think because of bias and self-selection of who goes into reporting, it's too liberal, too culturally un-understanding of much of america, and i don't think this current press corps in the mainstream ...