without further ado, i give you jeffrey clements. [applause] >> thank you, senator whitehouse and michael and caroline. before he goes too far, i have here -- already got a book already. this doesn't cost as much but it is clearly more valuable. it is the constitution. free speech for people and includes the declaration and the gettysburg address. [applause] senator whitehouse saying he was warming up from a leader like the garage man who comes on after bruce springsteen. i'm just going to waive for a minute here. i don't usually do readings of my book because it is not that kind of book. i will talk about that in a minute but near the end, a out the history of where citizens united came from and this corporate doctrine came from and how it came up in the chamber of commerce, very select group of the largest corporations in the world to literally transform our social/political and legal structure and i end with quoting senator whitehouse. i'm not sure he even knows this unless he read page 142 already. because he went to the senate f

. >> next, jeffrey clement argues the supreme court citizens united decision was flawed and outlines a plan to reverse it. this is about 40 minutes. [applause] >> thank you again, caroline and michael, for your leadership. i get to warm up the crowd for jeff and i merely had the to do it because i'm really proud to be here for the american way with all of you because we have a real battle on our hands. saturday was dhaka to year anniversary of the ghastly citizens united decision, and i hope that it actually was the point at which the court went too far and will provoke a public reaction that we can take advantage of to try to restrict the extraordinary explosion of the corporate power that the court has been stepping with smaller steps towards in so many decisions along the way, but the citizens united decision was really extraordinary. it's basically a capsule they did by the candidate mitt romney's comment that the corporations or people. no, corporations are not people, they don't have a soul or conscious, they are a mechanism by which people organize their behavior. but they are