jonathan soros, dan cantor, we'll be watching what happens. thank you very much for this very informative discussion. >> thank you, bill. >> thanks for having us. >> there's a familiar saying in politics that campaigning is poetry and governing is prose. not on this broadcast. here, poetry is poetry, period, and holds a cherished place, which is why we maintain a sort of poet's corner and welcome back to it our friend, martÍn espada. growing up tough and puerto rican in the city and then in the segregated suburbs of long island, martÍn espada wove his life's experience into poetry, composed even as he studied history and law and worked as an advocate for tenant's rights in boston. now he teaches poetry at the university of massachusetts, amherst and has published 16 books, including his recent collection, "the trouble ball." martÍn espada welcome back. >> thank you. >> there's a very short poem in the book, four lines long, that i wonder if it's autobiographical. it's the poet's son. >> yes, it's in the book, and, yes, it is. the poet's son wa

dan cantor is a former community and union organizer who's executive director of the working families party. that's a third party that began in new york state and has now spread to five others. since its launch 15 years ago, he's helped lead the party's efforts to elect progressive candidates throughout the state and worked to increase new york's minimum wage and raise taxes on the rich. jonathan soros is one of those who would pay more. he's a lawyer, investor, and philanthropist working on economic change and social goods. a senior fellow at the roosevelt institute exploring the role of corporations in society, and co-founder of the super pac friends of democracy, which aims to counter the influence of money in politics. an irony we'll discuss later. dan and jonathan are on the front lines of the fight to make new york state a national model for the public financing of political campaigns. welcome to you both. >> thank you so much. >> glad to be here. >> what an odd couple you are. jonathan, you're a lawyer, a man of means, you're active in finance, among other things. daniel, you a

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they won't -- boehner and cantor won't put it on the floor because they don't want to put their congressmen in a position of having to take difficult votes. >> bill: given that, danjohn boehner. here's what boehner -- the reality which you are right on, here's what bain her the audacity to say yesterday about this. >> i understand where the postal commission is coming from. they're in charge with running the post office. but yet the congress, in its wisdom has tied their hands every which way in order for them to actually run the post office in a revenue-neutral way. so congress needs to act. there's no question about that. and i hope that we'll act soon. >> bill: isn't that outrageous? he's the freaking speaker of the house of representatives. and he's complaining congress hasn't acted. it hasn't acted because he has not called for a vote. >> hello! it is astonishing. it is because he doesn't want to put some of his own rural lawmakers on the spot, voting against their own post offices. >> bill: all right now quick comment before we take a break we'll talk more about it on the other side. about drones. a lot of heat on the white house saying you've got to releas