not one of them and we are so frustrated. we had to vote him in if donald trump goes away we'll find another trump believe me we'll find another one the people dreamed this couch the people built this country at it's the people who are making america great again. the clintons and the obama's all oh they talked about families and children and justice and so on maintained these rights for corporations promoted the right of their companies to do whatever they want around the world in a strange way it was those who might oppose trump right now who set the stage for him to be elected it was the very policies that hold out north america i mean we created huge pockets of poverty we've never had in 100 years the same difference between rich and poor the the class differences incredible they set the stage for

a savior obama was supposed to be that savior and he wasn't and what happens after a savior fails you you look to something very different they set the table in my opinion for donald trump success do you find this contradictory in any way to the. cabinet full of millionaires a situation where some of them have been accused of misusing their offices in terms of the of lavishness of those artists or so on and so forth. to trump state a promise to drain the swamp if you will i don't think you drained it i think you move to going to the white house. so they didn't drain the swamp and just moved to dinner. i think every politician is probably abuse there are. why don't we totally drain the swamp. why are we the people more actively involved.

major contributions of far has been completely devalued the idea of regulatory oversight. of department of education or scott pruitt d.p.a. and these people who are essentially trying to dismantle government oversight from within the e.p.a. is regulators people that are jeff's. hundreds of thousands and then you add to it smudge a slate of gambits like the tax cut like this recent bank lobbyist impartial repeal of the dot frank act they've been on their wish list for ages the stuff thousands tens of thousands of lobbyist essentially are writing the legislation every once in a while a bill will be submitted and the the lobbying firms name will be on it because the congressman messed up you know by not taking her off my question represent god well someone hears what represent me i'm just curious does it have does the legislation have some connection to alec this bill didn't come to me from alec it answered your

question but the reason i ask is because earlier you passed out a handout that says got walt at the top and it says health care compact and there's a logo right in the middle of that page and i went to the elec website and there is exactly the same the same file the same size in the same logo. pane promised after the president that out to quote do a big number on the dot frank act oh here is the plan that shows that the lobbying has succeeded in persuading the house of representatives. to prove the biggest rollback of banking rules instilled frank. in the bank lobbyists came to capitol hill and pressured lawmakers to weaken their safeguards to rollback those regulations although it was mostly republicans who voted for this measure democrats who are some of the biggest recipients of bank money also voted with republicans to

roll back the signature accomplishment of the obama administration. made jim a 2nd when i was a leaf on our corner with the intercept. hi my name is leaf on. why is congress moving to remove some of those dodd frank protections designed to prevent another crisis those pensions were actually extended into the community banking center ground which did not have a cascade effect and i helped write the right and i defended it for 9 years and like a lot of people i think that there were areas in which dodd frank zappa little heavy on our smaller institutions and you're in some instances having difficulty lending making small loans to small businesses so i know you have a history in the banking sector work to goldman sachs do you think that any influence on your decision about this what this is not a wall street bill this is a bill about providing relief to smaller communities to suntrust in face of so many

other regional stadium banks now sarah was small right no no they don't as installed were 10 years after the financial crisis but congress has moved to repeal some of these big you voted with republicans softer bill as i write i voted to support the community banks the bill was entirely about you sitting group along with some of these community bankers and other big trade associations really had the hill they had a lot of lobbyist working on this to have it work and so you do you think that the banking lobby and their campaign donations had any influence on the 2000 a fiasco that the bank said no no right. i'm mad today you ask me that do they have any influence over the vote. and banking lobby have any influence on this vote and shall go to see office and he will along the lines of that we're thrilled with this it's the community banks that like yes i did support the community bank bill and i think when people mention this to others and what things are that makes it really hard to write one last question you said the regional banks are doing very well

thank you all right. are you concerned that the banking lobby bank lobbyists had influence over this bill that they have too much influence here on capitol hill absolutely i think the banks. be the pharma lobby all have too much influence here in congress this bill 252500 1000000 in the kinds of things j.p. morgan so you think the kinds of things that talking about are not small banks so i don't know that anybody with a straight face can say this is an answer to that question this is. couching small banks in order to give big banks relief from these write necessary regulations thank you so much take care. in response to obama's one effort to clean up influence peddling in washington lobbyist simply deregistered became more secretive thousands of lobbyist said we're not even going to comply with the registration

system and we're going to move out into the shadows and continue to influence government but without disclosing what we're doing on paper there are something like 9000 or 10000 registered lobbyist but in reality that the number is closer 210-0000. on paper lobbyist spend about 3000000000 or so every year influencing the federal government but in reality that number is closer to 9 or 10000000000. who served in the bush administration now. and. general company better see if a lot of military contracts what do you how do you feel about this issue of senior military officials government officials going to a large firms that receive major military contracts. as executive vice president of a major defense for vets receive billions of dollars in defense contracts. to

interface with the pentagon have you spoken to either obama administration officials or travel ministration officials on contracting issues. excuse me fran townsend here with just a quick moment i don't want to take too much of your time. shake and i host a welcome to washington fundraisers for you my law firm on k. street absolutely at 500 dollars and you can pick up 2025 grand get started in the. history of the species very much a history of domination exploitation no pressure in the hatred contempt and then the kalama veiling forces the count of milling voices against domination against a tree against and so you've got this struggle going on but that's what

democracy is all about how do you interrupt the dominance cycles of domination oprah's and hatred in b.n. resent we is concern for compassion and the specially concern for the most vulnerable. and the weak. and the history democracy is like the history of the blues. the blues is about catastrophe overwhelming catastrophe that seems to suffocate a great efforts. of improvement. and yet one steel keeps keeping one steel tries to tell the truth one steel tries

to fight for justice looks like you don't make a breakthrough good morning hard to cure it is again. i was but it's also one in which you recognize no i'm so surprised when you have bring to the breakthroughs a real and so it isn't democracy. one step forward 2 steps back 3 steps forward 2 steps back that's the history of who we are as a species both wonderful and terrible. aspirational and visionary on the one hand. and no precedent. in the blue zones then you can't you check both polls at same time and always

preserve not your optimism preserve your hope your prisoner of hope the corporate elites they want to divide. they want to divide and conquer it is a strategy as old as the links who emerged from the cave in the history of speech. in some cities in california los angeles and san francisco in particular but their biggest threat are criminal. black males who are involved in this crime and violence so keep the political commentary to yourself or as someone once said shut up and variable. will be right back. that's the fundamental threat. they do all that they can to cultivate divisions all that they can. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in this very dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i

don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. seemed wrong. rules just don't call. me you get to shape out these days become agitated and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect the. wanted data skimping climate change poses the same threat right now alaska seems some of the

fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. it is fast and that means the river is $35.00 closer than how it was for i think we're part of earth for. the pandemic no certainly no borders and just blocking 2 nationalities. has emerged we don't have a theory we don't have the facts in the whole world needs to be.

judged as coming a crisis with christiane to modern times we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. big mosaic is the regulator work that we started 1st ours was roebuck cousin and his brother was the producer. my nephew had killed and we're going to video you'll see to stand in front of we'll

be doing makeshift sheets of rest in peace at his name and all that is. being discussed. and then 7 days later my cousin who i was close with more like a brother he was shot down in front of his kids he was walking into his house somebody walked up and he had his daughter his girl. just man 11 times in the face of them said and proceed to shooting who is autograph. one of her. first. period. it's like you know our family was a good family you know me and you should come to our environment. and it's just like that reality i'm so tired of best cycle that we see in the city this happens you know i mean we had to eat some nights so i had to go do what i had to do you know maybe in the streets and ran the streets for. you know and i'm just blessed that

i'm able to be here and be a parent now i guess my whole focus in life was just to give market a better life to my. president we have to understand it's because of course we're talking about. more production you know is talking about. realities because a profit maximisation is one that it lead to concerned about gaining access to low wage markets were that has devastated so many poor working people of all colors places like camden where you have precious black brothers and sisters you've got white supremacy shot through this is the same capitalist process. and of course as historically the case slave holding capitalism for over 200 years jim crow cabalist the former 90 years and the jim crow jr had to do with what not just devastating industrial working class as a do the escalation of mass incarceration only to to cripple the educational system

on to indecent owing to communities and families. out there racism is. terrifying it's core to the problem so is the sexism which we don't talk about enough they are essentially promising to for store hierarchy in which people know their place which men get their place this is what we refer to as patriarchy this is a society that runs around the sort of structure of a family where the man is the head of the family except the man is the head of society jam to get d.'s white supremacy forces capitalist forces patriarchal forces almost checkmate. precious brothers and sisters. were not accidental bits and pieces in different places. together in

a very old fashioned way. it's all really about taking us back. to essentially a pre democratic period. it was all really about a battle that the losers after 900 never accept. and portrayed as a defeat of their right as the owner as the most powerful people. by then they put it back together again. and that's why you know in 1905 i felt i had to say things like we're in the midst of a coup d'etat in slow motion. the world is a. college of corporations. inexorably determined by the. immutable

laws of business. the world. is a business mr bush. has been since man crawled out of the slow. chase. we've lost the ability to think. images on screens are ubiquitous. the truth is they want to ban it. in america certainly illegal immigration is 100 percent about 24 hours a day. push their narrative collusion. we

are bombarded with images. and those images are confused with no. clothes no water. we confuse how we are made to feel. we can't success that's what it's all about success trump stakes are by far the best tasting most flavorful beef you've ever had because when america is united america is totally unstoppable. really honest with you even if it's not united we're unstoppable. in understanding how systems of power work which you can only grasp. by investing yourself in a print based culture reading john ralston saul reading noam chomsky. but in a post literate society the books are still there but nobody picks them up anymore

. oh brother dylan great to meet you good to see you yeah really great to meet you the great owner now known as mine no. question which american. but without tool of magination vision and courage shattering the indifference and shattering the callousness and that's the challenge i discern fight back in texas but also how did you conceive of every day people actually sees with the fire for a better world alternative but i think they are if they can figure out how to do it if they can feel that they are involved that it's about then and i think the great

disaster of the last. 30 years is that a large part of. the liberal elite has basically given in to a large part of the themes of being basically anti democratic elite and so they they they they're then created to discourse a top down discourse which excluded people is it which really made those people who are the who are the guarantors of democracy the holder of the citizen made them feel excluded and once they feel excluded they start getting mad and they get mad or there's a new day coming those signs of hope a younger generation concerned about not do psychological crisis the planet concern the bugs the walls. people how do you think it's a knowledge fussin though it's unpredictable in indian history is a mystery just like love in life you just don't know we none of us have control you know when the the ruling classes think that there might be but they did not

almighty they're going to fall sooner or later we don't know what form we just hope isn't neo-fascist we hope that it doesn't return to the most mulberry can be still love. of aspects of our condition the human condition that it's inside of all of us that's inside the hatred and the gangsta like proclivities inside every human being . and i think there's a. present there is. yes we're almost there so it's all kind of. that whereas i was hungry and i think then date i help everybody here don't quote whatever advice. ok they were god. they're sent out there to. pick up. right now kind of tell me i have to be here and help the people here versus. when i went on that then. i put other people far.

you know i've always been fascinated by them are modified. strictly in august and you see them heading south. and of course they're going to head south across the united states to mexico where they're all winter. and it takes about 3 generations to do the round trip so in fact known butterfly can be a guy. there is no butterfly who knows how to do this who knows where to go. they're part of a civilization they're part of out of a community they're part of something which understands without knowing. their reminder to me of really how civilizations work we're all part of something just deeply deeply injured and this is the enormous flaw in the

corporatist argument that you can sort of slice everybody up into their interest groups and then get somebody who is a kind of you know miscellany and trump like figure who uses emotion to hold it all together and isn't actually the way society works and all. some fosli grossman's great novel once and she. writes about the evils of both communism and fascism the evils of idiology still seek to exterminate whole numbers of opponents people whether they're condemned by because of class or race. and in the novel he talks about the power of human kindness which he witnessed as a war correspondent he was installing red. went all the way to baghdad.

and he said that the power of that human kind of smooth steady. it is not humankind that has empathy in the face of evil. but evil that is impotent in the face of humankind. because it is never able to crush that small kernel of class. and i think that's right. i think that. we probably only save the world one person at a time slowed down so years ago. that those small unheralded acts of compassion. are what keep us human and ultimately are the seeds by which we can rise up together.

they are a little more a reality was. planted larry. larry. believe me when we were. all made it was. a war on our.

i don't. even some of my school jane dishes if you're meeting. the most you're going by each. moment. our life. is going to. change or more. change. to us economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40 hours 'd in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still has the lead up to the reality of we're not financially equality and the lack of affordable housing living minimum wage give many people no choice. that's been a problem with the city always turn. out

a little bit. before. the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become invisible. you know in a month in which we were meant to have the 2 party conventions officially nominated . joe biden for the democrats the pen demick in the election and even more chaos than usual so joining us is greg palast journalist author of many books including the latest out now skyrocketing up all the bestseller lists it's called. 20.

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