. >> reporter: ytoday she's gettig this one for free thanks to operation prom. a nonprofit started 13 years ago to help offset the costs of prom. >> i think it's out of control. with the expenses senior year to begin with, you're going to college and paying for college applications and then you pay for prom and that's a ticket, a dress, limo, it's gotten out of hand. >> the group gives away racks own dresses worth hundreds of dollars each. >> these came from macy's. >> reporter: these are dresses were girls who can't afford to buy one or their school counselors recommend them. >> i wish it didn't cost so much. i think with social media, the competition of everybody try to do something bigger and better, it's almost impossible to pull back. >> reporter: it's like a prom arms race. so much so that she says her organization may get into the promposal game. >> operation prom would sponsor some of them and the money the students would pay for it would go back to students that were in need. >> reporter: over 2 00 girls came to the event. including this one who found h

our children are getting fatter and fatter, they're getting more diabetes, they ae gettig demorazed, it rtricts tir potenal in life at young a, they're prediosed to high blood pressure, they're being exposed by electronic child molesters called food processing companies... [scattered chuckling] teaching them how to nag their parents at a very young age to buy junk food, to drink junk drink, while they're watching violent programs that show them how to kill. a colonel who used to teach at west point, col. grossman, was so offended by these "child programs" and vicious toys that he wrote a book called "teaching our children to kill." do you know any parents that aren't bothered by that? do you know any parents who want to have their children exposed to clever ads that nag them? that's the word that's used for prize-winning ads toward children on madison avenue. it has a high nag factor. [scattered chuckling] how about restoring our civil liberties? you think the majority of the people don't want arrests without charges, throwing people in jail without lawyers, many indefinitely? invasi

. >> he just said he's gnot gettig in politics. >> it's a question for the head of the chamber of commercend democrats to agree on, you know, a set of issues that will produce more growth in the coming year. >> that's the one thing they do agree on. they don't like trade. >> that's a problem. >> finally found a bipartisan issue. we're anti-trade. >> am i wrong to think, though, given how polarized the country is, almost no matter who wins, whether hillary clinton or donald trump on the other side that instead of hitting the reset button it actually gets worse? >> no. it's harder. it's not so much that the country is polarized. it's easy to move the public with social media. we wouldn't have done bretton woods in 1944 if it was being done today. there are lots of things we did that we praise that we wouldn't have done. >> is that because weigh-in from the general public is not helpful in accomplishing goals. >> it means a small number of people can leverage opposition and terrify politicians into doing nothing. terrify the right into doing nothing. terrify the democrats because labor will c