so i am skeptical of that, the impact of citizens united on the political system. >> host: of course holding corporations people got a lot of attention but in the book you point out that might be sort of misplaced and maybe the bigger issue is not corporations but billionaires who are propping up candidates. >> guest: right, and if there is a problem it's money not the form of donor. my favorite example of this is something i have to be careful with in my phrasing. the koch brothers are these billionaires who are demonized by the left as providing an enormous amount of of support for very conservative positions by politicians. and liberals say citizens united allows the coat brothers to make their contributions, to make their contributions from the corporate of coke industries. it appears to be the case that coke industries is what is known as a subchapter s corp. but if it is some type of s. corp. what it means is there is no difference between koch industries making a contribution and the koch brothers nick in the contribution. if the koch brothers are a problem and if they are it'

so now we have these -- >> citizens united -- wait. citizens -- >> wait, wait.s is not a conversation about citizens united or -- >> sure, it is. >> no, it isn't. >> it should be. >> i want to ask you one final question. it's bad form, would you not agree, for a sitting senator to attack the supreme court? you've been in the white house. is the white house cringing at a moment like this when senator warren is going off like that? >> perhaps. i think it's not bad form for the senator to cite facts of the type she did. i'm sorry you don't want to talk about citizens united. it has diminished transparency in campaign finance. it's not made it more transparent. >> i understand but we're not -- >> we all agree we need more transparency. >> we're not trying to have a conversation about campaign finance. >> well, that's -- that's one of the main ways that the supreme court has lifted corporate powers influence in elections. i think you've got to understand that. >> we're simply trying to debate senator warren saying, and this is the sentence, you follow this pro corpor

. >> host: one of the court's least popular decisions has involved campaign citizens united case. president obama's election has got have to say citizens united were overstated, which i read with some skepticism. what is your basis for that? >> guest: there's a couple of reasons. one is my witness a legal academic. business united itself was, i hate to say this on a relatively narrow decision. in itself, and expanded opportunities for corporate expenditures, only a bit and it doesn't look like big corporations, big publicly held corporations really do engage in a lot of independent expenditures on political campaigns that they couldn't have engaged in before citizens united. now citizens united clearly has a large symbolic effect than it did seem to encourage people who might have been holding back from doing things that they thought might have been prohibited, but might not have been. over their wallet when they did keeping them closed. but it's not clear that there's the scene are this enormous vantage on the republican side for these independent expenditures. i think one of the

most people are familiar with the citizens united supreme court case from two thousand and ten which allowed for unlimited campaign spending by corporations that landmark decision only exacerbated the already corrupt influence big money has on american elections but next month the intrusion of money in politics could become even more pervasive it's a supreme court case called mccutcheon vs the f.e.c. and it would remove the remaining on the taishan is on political contributions by individuals well my next guest addresses the systematic desecration of american democracy and his book dollar ocracy how the money and media election complex is destroying america i first asked him about the historical precedent for the money media complex and how it took over american politics. well to be fair america started as a model of the reality of america it would be i mean it's history was a less than ten percent of adults were allowed to vote so it was an ideal revolutionary idea but we didn't really fulfill it for a long time if we ever have it we're going to enormous struggle almost two hundred

they were absolutely obsessed with the idea that citizens united was going to be challenged by the tea party groups and looking for a reason to keep them at bay. and i think that's what has driven this entire process. >> speaking of lois lerner, you came up we mails between lerner and her staff also illuminated an angle here. >> yeah, they basically showed she was very closely watching this in february 2011. and also that, you know, she actually made offhand comments about the role the sec might play in aiding in. >> the federal election commission is the fec. >> of course, yes. >> the one other thing that happened this week too that was interesting was that we also learned that in addition to the targeting that happened on the front end that after a lot of these groups were approved by the irs, a lot of conservative groups were then flagged for follow-on sort of surveillance to make sure that they were, you know, they were actually being watched by an examinations unit in dallas that was making sure that they were comporting with the tax exempt status that they had sought. so there wa

reelection talks about citizens united's was overstated ready -- that was read with some skepticism about what is your basis for that? we but there are a couple of reasons but one is from my perspective as a legal academic citizens united itself i hate to say this relatively a matter of decision. added self it expanded opportunities for corporate expenditures and it does not look like big publicly held corporations really do engage in independent and ditchers that they could have engaged in before services united it clearly has a large symbolic effect and it did encourage people who might have been a holding back from to read things that might have been prohibited will then they open their wallets. but it is not clear the enormous advantage on the republican side i the glenda the fee is the tea party phenomenon suggests is that independent spending actually can cause problems personally and a like the amount of money but it is not clear to me that should be regarded as a serious constitutional problem and some aspect has to be right if i care a lot about a candidate and i want to sp

liberals say that citizens united allows the cole brothers to make their contributions and make their contributions from the corporate treasury of industries, which is what they have talked about. it appears to be the case that the coke industries has a sub chapter corporate situation with taxes. but if it is, what it means is that there is no difference between coke industries making a contribution and the coke brothers making a contribution. so if they are a problem, if they are, it is because they are really rich, not because they control a company that can make expenditures on behalf of us. >> the procedure was a little bit odd that they called everyone back for every argument. which leads us to how much do oral arguments actually matter? >> i think that they sometimes matter some. but basically don't matter all that much. in the affordable care act phase. the immediate reaction was it was a train wreck of an argument. there is nothing that the solicitor general could've done to keep that train wreck from happening. and it was part of daniel webster, one of the great orators in ou

any bearing whatsoever on this this overturn well sure i mean this actually goes farther than citizens unitedi think since united was wrongly decided is that corporations could spend whatever they amount they want on free speech to influence election campaign this allows direct donations to the political campaign so it actually goes one further in my view corporations are not people and don't have the free speech rights under the constitution which which i carry with me but you know that is something that we're going to have to wait for a change united states supreme court to overturn. that was mark levine host of inside scoop and a former congressional attorney. and the nation's most active death penalty state has just announced it will continue to use the same execution drug that it's running out of the drug is called pentobarbital the state switched to this lethal single dose sedative last year after the substances that made up their three drug execution cocktail became difficult to obtain but apparently switching the drug wasn't enough because now their supply of pentobarbital is also run

all of this sounds familiar it sounds like an episode of house of cards or they go as we know citizens unitedwas passed in january of two thousand and ten it opened the floodgates to corporate donations giving rise to the super pacs do you think that the leniency we're now seeing in campaign election laws has any bearing whatsoever on the overturn well sure i mean this actually goes farther than citizens united i think since united was wrongly decided it's a corporation. spend whatever the amount they want on free speech to influence election campaign this allows direct donations to the political campaign so it actually goes one further in my view corporations are not people and don't have the free speech rights under the constitution which which i carry with me but you know that is something that we're going to have to wait for a change in a state supreme court to overturn it absolutely well the district attorneys i mentioned this leading out i was sad that you know this was originally tried by twelve juries they listened to forty different witnesses and then in the appeal of course two judg

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and the thing is citizens united. i don't purport to be an expert on their opinion.ut it was what they could and could do. and in terms of a political action committee it is separate. >> they must shut it down. >> i think so. it will be shut down unless they use what we talked about section three of the statute. >> and it is interesting, allyson, it is going to get interesting. >> it is. >> doug, leiowa gh thank you so much. >> two cars buried for decades revealing their secrets and shining new light on long forgotten disappearances. what police found inside and why the mist rows may soon be solved. this is for you. ♪ [ male announcer ] bob's heart attack didn't come with a warning. today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack, be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. t's as much as you like, any way you like. try classic garlic shrimp scampi and more. only $15.99, offer ends soon. so come in and sea food differently. now, try seven lunch choices for $7.99. sandwich

due to citizens united, it teamrs congressmen to non- players. they need to do is find a sugar daddy and they can fly off .n their own with no discipline until some move is made to correct the citizens united problem i think you are fighting against a stacked the deck. guest: i think you make an extremely important point. danlet me paraphrase what is saying and go on from there. despite all of the hoopla about obamacare and everything else, i think most people understand that what goes on in washington is the big-money interests have enormous power over what goes on. in fact, i think it is fair to say that there is no piece of legislation that can get past congress if wall street and the multinational corporation say no. that is what it is. the disastrous supreme court decision danis talking about, what it is is is said to the billionaires of the country, the others, yous and own all kinds of manufacturing capabilities, you own all kinds of companies, and now you can own the united states government because there are no limits. you can put as muc

if he went so hard after the court for the citizen united opinion. he is benefiting from. he attacked the court there. we can manage what he would have said if they struck down the signature legislation. it had to weigh on the legislation. some else will talk about whether or not he switched his opinion. we know he was trying to have -- i think it's a very bad precedent. the chief justice ilya said he sold out. he can d. he rewrote a law. he upheld the law that never passed. ly give him some credit because as a chief justice he has to think perspectively. he has a 30-year term ahead of him if he stays healthy. the president has three years and counting. the president is a fairly short time left in office. we have a lot of other cases coming up. just this past term voting rights was struck down. affirmative action is coming up soon. i'm sorry the affirmative action might be a better test case. the a lot of things the court has to do. let's talk about -- and randy i'm sure will talk about this. what is the impact of inteel yous on the constitution? well dock trinally. i don'

if you recall the 2010 state of the union which was after citizens united. he made statements critical to the course. they reverse unjust precedent and open the flood gate to spending. he said it with them sitting five feet away. the justice was shaking his head like not true. the president repeated this behavior in -- i'm sorry two days after the oral argument he made offhand comments where he basically said to the court that you should, quote, exercise your jurisprudence carefully. he made a very clear message what he expected them. he cited the lochner president which might be a first. i don't know if any president mentioned lochner before. in this crowd it's probably a good thing. david burstein is here. he cited the opinion. he made it clear he was not going to be happy if the court struck the law down. it might be a good or bad thing. if you recognize the climate, which was the case was decided. it was a presidential election year. it was decided three months before the general election, and the court was rightfully concerned about what would happen. j

we are living in an era of citizens united where money is speech people who use the internet yet the internet anyway. they can go to the library. you don't need money to use the internet. so this is a form of speech that may be the affluent and the politically connected have access to that others don't. >> so combating millions and billions of money with millions of like, right? >> if you can spread the word through activism on the internet and that transforms into on this read activism or political activism that changes laws and creates laws, don't say a problem with that whatsoever. it's not the first venue he was ever kicked out of and it likely won't be the last. but actor russell brand is making headlines this week after he was booted from the gq men of the year awards. but what did he do? the event was sponsored by the german fashion firm hugo boss. something you might not know about that fashion company is it manufactured not see uniforms back in the day and boss himself was a member of the nazi party. the company also use forced labor is provided by the not sees to make the u

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leniency we are seeing has any bearing on this overturn question mark rex this goes farther than citizens unitedcorporations could spend whatever amount they want on free speech to influence an election campaign. this allows rick donations so it goes one further. corporations are not people and do not have the free speech rights under the constitution which i carry with me. that is something we will have to wait for a change in the supreme court to overturn. >> that was mock levine come a former congressional attorney -- mark levine, a former congressional attorney. the drug is pentobarbital. the state switched to this lethal single-dose sedative after the substances that made up the drug execution cocktail became difficult to obtain but switching the drug was not enough. now their supply is also running out. other death penalty states have encountered similar problems because many drug suppliers are barring the use and executions under pressure from death penalty opponents. the state will not say how it plans to replace it supply after it expires this month. it seems no executions will be delay

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because there are forms of expression i mean we're living in an era we're living in a narrow citizens united where money is speech i mean people who use the internet they get these or anywhere they go to the library you don't need to have money to use the internet so this is a form of speech that maybe the the affluent to the politically connected or have access to that that others do too that others don't i mean i'm batting millions and billions of dollars of money with millions of likes and. i mean if you can spread the word through activism on the internet and that transforms into on the street activism or political activism that changes laws creates laws i don't see a problem with that whatsoever that has not been there producer of the majority report. well here in the us we love our ladders the social ladder the financial ladder we love the feeling that we're always moving on or moving up but for many this sense of wealth really isn't as good as it might seem and the perception of it is lower than you would think the residents laurie harshness with more on the american sense of our own

because there are forms of expression i mean we're living in an era we're living in a narrow citizens united where money is speech i mean people who use the internet they get isn't anywhere they go to the library you don't need to have money to use the internet so this is a form of speech that maybe the the affluent to the politically connected or have access to that that others do too that others don't i mean i'm batting millions and billions of dollars of money with millions of likes. i mean if you can spread the word through activism on the internet and that transforms into on the street activism or political activism that changes laws creates laws i don't see a problem with that whatsoever but at the same time does this blurring the line between what is and what is not exactly speech. i don't think so i mean speech speeches mean like i said it's been covered under many forms of expressions simply because in this case the deputy sheriff didn't say that he liked this candidate outright he didn't say the words he didn't type those words out i mean if he was saying that over the phone and if

because there are forms of expression i mean we're living in an era we're living in a narrow citizens united where money is speech i mean people who use the internet they get these or anywhere they go to the library you don't need to have money to use the internet so this is a form of speech that maybe the affluent to the politically connected or have access to that others do too that others don't i mean i'm batting millions and billions of dollars of money with millions like. i mean if you can spread the word through activism on the internet and that transforms into on the street activism or political activism that changes laws creates laws i don't see a problem with that whatsoever that was not bender producer for the majority report . well it's not the first venue he was ever kicked out of and it likely won't be the last but actor russell brand is making headlines this week after he was booted from the g.q. man of the year awards but whatever did he do you ask while the event was sponsored by the german fashion firm google bots something you might not know about that fashion company it ma

citizens." this should be an unthinkable event. never in our history of the unitedtates have we defaulted on our obligations. congress has always lived up to its responsibility to protect the nation's credit. those in congress who think default is an option claim it is possible to protect our economy by simply paying the interest on our debts while stopping or delaying payments on a number of other legal commitments. there is no way of knowing the irrevocable damage such an approach would have on our economy and the financial markets. host: treasury secretary jack lew from yesterday and there are discussions in washington in the follow-up to the shooting at the navy yard monday which killed 12. here is the headline in "the atlanta journal-constitution" this morning -- they have a photo of the washington monument with flags at half staff. that's from "the washington times." --k to bias partisanship back to bipartisanship in congress -- here is a tweet -- ralph is in new york, first on our democrats line. caller: good morning and good to see you back. i was thinking b

and that's what citizens united makes even worse. mean, you know, ed, sometimes commentators say we are a very divided nation. and on some issues, we are. but on all of the issues you talked about, the need to protect social security, medicare and medicaid, the need to create millions and millions of decent-paying jobs. do you know what african-american youth unemployment is today in this country? >> staggering low. >> over 40%. that's a generation of kids we are leaving behind. the american people want to deal with that. they want to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. so all kinds of issues out there that bring us together. but the big money interests, the wall street guys, are on the other side. what we need is the president and congress to work together to rally the american people. >> senator bernie sanders, great to have you on "the ed show". i appreciate your time, sir. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts with us on twitter at ed show,

you want to be a united states citizen, true? >> yes, please. >> stephen: you want to be a united states citizen. okay, all right, you have to understand there's such a thing as american exceptionalism, all right? the rules don't apply to us. >> (laughs) >> stephen: we get to do what we want. everybody should say "hey, that's good because america did it." (laughter) >> why not use the rules to get what we want done without having to ourselves actually having to do it? >> stephen: and use the u.n. resolution? >> the u.n. is a useful institution to cover and to execute great power designs. >> stephen: what great power? what war have they ever preventd? >> well, we may have just prevented this one and i ale tell you why. >> stephen: but we don't know because it didn't happen! >> we don't know yet. >> stephen: you can't prove a negative. >> what we have preventd is any major war between great powers. >> stephen: because if we wanted to go to war with russia or china they would veto it and then we'd have to stop. (laughter) you're not

martha: she says this could end up being the vehicle to go to court to take on the citizens united issue get more clarity on the 2010 supreme court ruling on campaign finance rules. >> i said for a long time it sounds like lois lerner probably should not have been at her job and should be relieved of her job permanently as soon as she can be. but to say this has some sort of connection to president obama as katie implied. i don't see it. i see no evidence of that despite the leaks chairman issa of the oversight committee has leaked. there has not been any connection to anybody in the white house. i said this for months. as an independent prosecutor who can go in and look at this matter. somebody who is not affiliated with the political sea general today as i think chairman issa is. it sound like democrats are claiming and other e-mails have shown not just tea party groups fan pro questionsive groups are targeted. let's get to the bottom of it. let's get to the bottom of this once and for all. martha: this e-mail from 2012 came out after this sort of started to come out. there was a heari

if he went so hard after the court for the citizens united opinion which he benefited from immensely. he benefited immensely. if he had right there, we can imagine what he would have said. and this had to had weighed on the chief justice. well we do know is that he was trying to have have the influence of the court. the chief justice sold out. he did. he wrote a lot. i will give him some credit. he has a 30-year term ahead of him if he stays healthy. the president has three years and counting. i'm sure their is a count noun summer in this building. a fairly short time left in office. we have a lot of other cases coming up. just this past term voting rights to step down. affirmative-action is coming of san. the affirmative-action, better test case. so a lot of things that the court has to do. randy am sure we will talk about this. what is the impact on the constitution? well, i don't know how big it is. i will caveat that. this law definitely says congress cannot regulate inactivity. if congress has other purchase mandate this would probably be there. medicaid spending. at think with t

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citizens united has great direct bearing on how you think about that case. and it's an even bigger case for that reason in the political area and it's a huge impact directly. >> yes? >> obviously the citizens united was about first amendment speech rights to the extent which corporations can invoke them, although it is pretty subtle that corporations and the free speech under the first amendment, i agree with you. i think it will play into this political debate about corporations and their roles and the protections that they get. >> just? >> hello, my name is henrygreen. do any of you know if the court had accepted anything that would cause it to let the confrontation clause and how it is applied in trial courts, mishmash. it has been very difficult for both trial judges and practitioners to deal with. does anyone know about that? >> i am not aware of any confrontation clauses. >> i'm sure we have not seen the end of that saga. >> going back to the ballot initiative, doesn't this case potentially nullify and eviscerate this by institutionalizing the majority

really long-term, but if you don't have public financing of campaigns so that we can blunt the citizens unitedalk about overhauling the tax code, we have to incentivize folks to pay living wages, or else -- >> i want to talk about the politics of inequality, and how they sort of affect the political system. because here in new york we just ran the experiment. and this is the thing you have not heard, dear viewer, about bill de blasio, is part of what allowed him to win is the faction that new york has a very robust campaign system. in fact, he was able to take on the 1% of the message because he was not drowned out by wages against him, because we have a very robust financial scheme that essentially put everybody on the same playing field. and whether you think he had a good message or not -- >> exactly, these people can get around, but, you are basically right you can have poor candidates, candidates of color, more women color, and dare we say the word more left candidates, because of that public fight. >> and also an endorsement from joe -- >> we have public financing in new york, bill de bl

for example, on citizens united, the tea party is perfectly happy to take that ruling.he fact that that same supreme court with the similar majority makes the decision around the affordable care act and they're unwilling to abide by it is evidence that this is fundamentally about their unwillingness to submit to the realities of a national government that through free and fair representatives made a law. >> including them. and it's not just the budget. they seem so have a similar strategy when it comes to the debt ceiling. look at this. 35% of republicans believe not raising the debt ceiling would cause serious harm to the economy but want to do it anyway. even if it would cause widespread economic harm. they know it's bad, and they still want to do it. >> yeah. but this is in part the complete campaign of misinformation that the republican party has been extremely good at on two major issues. the economy and obama care or the affordable care act. on the debt ceiling, the reason that so many people are willing to basically suggest doing something that's not even in thei

as in citizens united, the petitioners in mccutchen are urging the court to overrule a prior court decision in the area of campaign finance. the prior case was buckley vs vallejo, a 1976 decision in which the court upheld congress authority to up hold aggregate limits on individuals contributions to prevent circumvention of the limits on donations to individual candidates. the aggregate limit today is about $125,000 on contributions to individuals during an election cycle. an individual can contribute to parties, pac's, or individuals. there is a $74,600 two-year ceiling to contributions and a $48,600 limit to candidate organizations. the individual position or the case is sean mccutchen. he is a wealthy man who gave a lot of money to individuals and parties during the last election cycle but he wanted to give more and had he given more, he would have exceeded the limit. he challenged the federal election campaign act arguing along with co-petitioners, the republican national committee, that the aggregate limits violate their first amendment rights and should be eliminated because the resul

as in citizens united, the petitioners in mccutchen are overrule acourt to prior court decision in the area of campaign finance. the prior case was buckley versus vallejo and which the court upheld congress authority to up hold aggregate limits on individuals contributions to cook -- to prevent circumvention of the limits on donations to individual candidates. the aggregate limit today is about $125,000 on contributions to individuals during an election cycle. an individual can contribute to parties, pacs, or individuals. to twos a $74,600 limit year contributions and a 48,000 $600 limit to candidate organizations. the individual position or the case is sean mccutchen. man who gave a lot of money to individuals and parties during the last election cycle but he wanted to give more and had he given more, he would have exceeded the limit. challenged the federal election campaign act arguing along with co-petitioners, the republican national committee, that the aggregate limits violate their first amendment rights and should be eliminated because the resulting contributions will not be lar