america great again. the clintons and the obama's all they talk 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 to the world in a strange way it was those who might oppose trial right now who set the stage for him to be elected it was the very policies that 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 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's excess do you find this contradictory in any way to be. a cabinet full of millionaires

a situation where some of them have been accused of misusing their offices in terms of the. of those offices so 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 moved it into the white house so it ingrain a swamp and does move didn't. i think every politician has probably abused their office. why don't we totally drain the swamp playing up. why are we the people more actively involved. major contributions so far has to completely devalue the idea of regulatory oversight. department of education or scott pruitt. these people who are essentially trying to dismantle gun. i'm an oversight from within the e.p.a.

is regulators people that have jumps on hundreds of thousands and then you add to it smudges live 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 of 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 it off my question represented god well somewhat mirrors would represent a moment i'm just curious does it have does the legislation have some connection to alec this bill didn't come to me from alec in answer to 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 find the same size in the same logo. on t.v.

you know the pain promised after the president is that how to quote do a big number on the dot frank act so he is a sign that just like the lobbying has succeeded in persuading the house of representatives to approve the biggest rollback of banking rules instead frank. 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 him 2nd when i was a leaf on our border with me and i sat. my name's leaf on.

why is congress moving to remove some of those dodd frank protections was designed to prevent another crisis those tensions were actually extended into the community banking center ground which did not have a cascade effect i helped write write and i've defended it for 9 years and like a lot of people i think that there were areas in which dodd frank said a little heavy on our smaller institutions to insure in some instances having difficulty lending making small loans to small businesses so i know you have a history in the banking sector work of goldman sachs do you think that any influence on your decision about this why this was not a wall street bill this was a bill about providing relief to smaller communities to suntrust in the 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 citigroup along with

some of these community bankers and other bank trade associations really hit the hill had a lot of lobbyist working on this you have a deal with the city and do you think that the banking lobby and their campaign donations had any influence of the 2000 a fiasco that the bank said no no role in that debate if you ask me that question do they have any influence over the vote. and banking lobby have any influence on this vote actually go to see office and take it along with the money center that we're thrilled with this it's the community banks that like. yes i did support that community bank bill and i think when people mention this to others and what things are that makes it really hard all right one last question you should know regional banks are doing very well thank you. 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 bank allowed the guy. 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 here 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 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 that's received a lot of military contracts what do you how do you feel about this issue of senior military officials government officials going to large firms that receive major military contracts. as executive vice president of a major defense firm that's received billions of dollars in defense contracts. to interface with the pentagon have you spoken to either obama administration officials or trouble 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. jake and i host

a welcome to washington fundraiser for you and my law firm on k. street absolutely at 500 dollars and it's going to pick up 2025 grand i'll get started in. the history of the species very much a history of domination exploitation no pressure in the hatred contempt and then that countervailing forces the count of veiling voices against domination against each 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 especially a concern for the moles. and the

weak. and the history democracy is like the history of the blues. because the blues is about catastrophe overwhelming catastrophe that seems to suffocate every effort. i'm improvement. and yet one steel keeps keepin on one steel tries to tell the truth one steel tries to fight for justice looks like you're going to make a break. i was but is also one and would you recognize now i'm so surprised when you have breakthrough the breakthrough is a real and so it isn't democracy. i am.

one step forward 2 steps 3 steps forward 2 steps back that's the history of who we are as a species both wonderful and terrible. aspirational and visionary elma one. and all present. in the blue zones then you can't you check both poles at same time and always preserve not your optimism preserve your hope your prisoner of hope. they want to do. they want to conquer it it is a strategy as old as the elites who emerged from the. speech. cities in california los angeles and san francisco in particular biggest threat.

in this crime and violence to keep the political commentary to yourself or as someone once said shut up and terrible. will be right back. to fundamental threat. they do all that they tend to cultivate divisions all that they can. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. the dares thinks. we dare to ask.

the illustrations but it's put to rest and not just get up but just tell the speech that i'm. eat eat eat food for she marched over i'm going to pitch a slow pull on. what i'm. most been able to. say. oh. did. you push too much they didn't calm us but no more some.

big moves in as the regulator with that we started 1st ours was robot the small cousin and his brother was the producer of. the pulse one of the most solid. videos called mahsud. 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 not. even with us. 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 and somebody walked up and he had his daughter girl walked up to stop this man levantine in the face of them said and proceed to shooting for his autograph. and i got. one of her.

head 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 that cycle that we see in a city and as it 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 on life is just to give my kids a better life than i think you should do is it all we have to understand is of course we're talking about capitalism more production you know is talking about global realities because a profit maximisation is one that it lead to concerned about gaining access to low wage markets all around the world that has devastated so many port working people

of all colors places like camden way 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 90 years and the jim crow jr had to do with what not just devastating. still working class as a duty. incarceration only to to cripple the educational system into indecent owing to communities and families and how low out the racism you know 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 a 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. you get decent white supremacist forces capitalist forces paid your uncle force is almost checkmate precious brothers and sisters. these are not accidental bits and pieces in different places it all fit together in a very old fashioned way. it's all really about taking us back. to essentially a pre democratic year. it was all really about a battle that the losers after 900 never accept. and portrayed as defeat their right as the owners as the

most powerful people. so goodbye but they put it back together again. and that's why you know in 1905 i felt i had to say things like we were in the midst of a coup d'etat in slow motion. the world is a. college of corporations. and extremely determined by the. immutable laws of business. the world. is a business must be. of the. right.

we've lost the ability to think. images on screens are ubiquitous. the truth is they want to ban every gun in america certainly illegal immigration is 100 percent about voting 24 hours a day the democratic push russia narrative collusion narrative. we are bombarded with images. and images are confused with no. clothes no water that turned up. we confuse how we are made to feel with. a game 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 one america is united

america is totally unstoppable although i'll be totally honest with you even if it's not united we're unstoppable said or. 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 . rather. great to meet you see the really great to meet you need a great owner well known as mine no. question which american. but

without the rule of magination vision and courage shattering the indifference and shattering the callousness and that's the challenge i discerned fight back in the attacks but also how did you conceive of every day people being 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 there then created a 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 just psychological crisis the planet concern above the walls. people how do you. know 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 it isn't neo-fascist we hope that it doesn't return to the most barbaric and beast . of aspects of of our condition the human condition of it's inside of all of us it's inside the hatred and the gangsta like proclivities inside every human being. and i think their. prayers are there. yes we're all there set up kind of.

so where's your responder and then date i help everybody here don't quote whatever i buy. ok we're. not there to. back up. right now kind of tell me i have to be here and help the people here. when i am done that then i'll do that i put other people 1st. you know i've always been fascinated by them are modified. strictly in august you see them heading south. and of course they're going to head south across the united states to mexico where the winter. but it takes about 3 generations to do the round trip. in fact known butterfly can be

a god. 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 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 woven and this is the enormous flaw in the corporate star judgement that you can sort of slice everybody up into their interest groups and then get somebody who's 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. vasily grossman's great novelist and film he. 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 in stalingrad and went all the way to believe. i am he said that the power of the human kindness means that the bit is not humankind that is and that in the face of evil. but evil that is impotent in the face of humankind to it because it is never able to crush that small kernel of class i and i think that's

right i am not i i i think that. we probably only save the world one person at a time as well the 1000 years ago. that those small unheralded acts of compassion. are what keep us human and ultimately are the scenes by which we can rise up again. the i. am a little earlier we were. heard

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