the alan brown public banking -- >> who is ellen brown class. >> ellen brown class. >> yes. >> she was the one who started the public banking concept and has been pushing it worldwide for some time now. >> thank you. >> she started by writing the book. now she has another book out. anyway, she has -- i think she has a radio program twice a week or it may be it is even on t.v. i don't know. i'm surprised you don't know about ellen brown. >> i don't get out much. >> one of the ideas they had that i not heard today was to buy an existing bank, to start a public bank by buying an existing bank, so that's just an idea you might consider once you look into it, or may be you have to buy the entire bank. may be you just invest heavily so you have control of the policies that the bank has. that is another idea you might look into. thank you. >> thank you. hello. >> i'm introducing myself to you in my grandmother's language because that is where it all starts for as. is at least for this coalition in san francisco, the public bank coalition started with seeing the effect of our money being inves

this moment in late december, 2016, where ellen goes to her mailbox and pulls out what she expects to be usual junk mail and there's an envelope with a charlie brown stamp on and she pulled it out and it's a letter typed, no name, no return address-- address that lays out all these concerns that this individual has with things happening in the trump transition, mostly about russia and some about michael flynn. it-- as much as that document penned out over time it was not a source document for us. it was not anything in and of itself that we could rely on to build stories around. we could treated as a reporting map to pursue things, but we don't know who that is spirit we don't know if it's really still have no idea who sent that to us here we've never been able to figure that out here we ran down a bunch of suspicions, never able to just-- discern who that was. >> maybe it's the person who wrote the anonymous op-ed. >> it falls into the category of astonishing things that have happened over the past year. it was only a few months after that i started getting from a source or sources transcripts of the president's phone calls with the leader of mex