let's turn to a clip of harvard law professor lawrence lessig commenting on citizens united. >> it iss if on generate 2010 the day before citizens united was decided, democracy was coming along well and broken by the supreme court. democracy was already broken in the united states in 2010. it is broken because the tiniest slice of americans, point to 6%, give or than $200 and a congressional campaign. 0.05% max out. the tiniest slice of the top 1% of america funds elections in america. that reality will always be, whether corporations or persons or not, corrupt the system in washington. the only solution to that problem is not just limiting the ability of corporations or private individuals, but to talk openly and honestly about the need to funds publicly fund elections. >> that was lawrence lessig. what are you going to do about citizens united? it is a supreme court decision. >> absolutely i agree with the professor that it is not that citizens united made all the difference. we had big problems with money in politics going back for decades, really, forever, but the problem became r

>> i want to draw your attention to a dwoet from a lawrence lessig article which sums up his point andl. it is as if america ran two elections every cycle, one a money election and then a voting election. to get that second vote, you need to keep that fraction of one percent happy. explain that assertion, unpack that a little for us. >> money is the mortar of the status quo. i mean everything knows that, you can have everyone in favor of reform and i have been there before and have one special interest oppose you and it won't even get to the floor of congress, even though you have consumer groups, industry, everyone else in favor of it. in my case it happened to be a reform that the trial lawyers imposed. but it happens with all interest groups, so we wonder why nothing ever changes and congress keeps kicking the can down the road. because there ee's relatively aw special interest groups that give all the money. >> i wanted to ask about one of the specific subjects in this piece. >> larry lessig's idea which i think is very creative, is to let each voter designate $50 from their tax re