marie c.e.o. is the president of the local small scale miners association. with the for all that used to be cocoa plantations. and the government has eradicated all the coke on the region. each day dozens of mules amble up and down these paths loaded up with cans of cyanide like mercury it's used to extract the gold from the or. we're in the heart of a rich gold bearing region. the mines are artisanal the techniques and c'est the gold reserves have hardly been tapped. the big companies rarely venture out here but they already hold all the mining permits. and all this land is already tenured by the company's compass you know whenever a small farmer goes to request a mining permit he's told that the land has already been allocated that someone has requested it before and. in this way the small scale miners are considered illegal by the colombian government they live under fark rule most of the time the guerrilla fighters are invisible but they come here regularly to collect their war tax. in order to work you have to pay the guerillas. everyone pays the entire

c.e.o. of the hip-hop caucus mary boyle vice president of communications with common cause back and alexis baden mer and i center and got a political director with the organic consumers association and what thank you all for joining me tonight let's start with the money out voters in day of action revenue want to give us a snapshot of this definitely it's the money out voters in a coalition of groups coming together to really this bring awareness to how bad the citizens united decision was to many people that decision was as bad as the dred scott decision was and couldn't couldn't you argue that it was actually the mirror image of dred scott because dred scott said that people are property in this one property as people know you can you can own from a decision that was so bad i mean that decision for dred scott people so outweighs that it live to that much pot with base of the thirteenth the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment the civil war and the civil war. we don't want that to happen but we do want this to be change because this has a huge impact on democracy and all communities so hundreds o

. >> reporter: but mary callahan erdoes says the bickering in washington is holding it back. erdos is one of the most powerful women on wall street. as c.e.o. of j.p. morgan asset management, she presides over $1.2 trillion in investments. >> the u.s. has to realize it's got so much going for it. let's just get ourselves to come together as a team, one team running that country, helping to get itself back on stable footing which then cascades to the rest of the world. >> reporter: how much does it hurt the economy if we don't confront this? >> it hurts us tremendously. it hurts the confidence of the u.s., it hurts the confidence of the c.e.o.s to know how do i invest? what are the rules going to be? and we've got to get back to believing that business is good. american business is good. >> reporter: erdoes is making her fourth trip to the world economic forum in davos. the talk here is of recovery. does the atmosphere feel a little better this year? >> it feels much more hopeful. i mean, it was just a year ago we were talking about country defaults and company defaults. >> reporter: in europe now they're looking at the u.s., wondering why

prosecutor in mary jo white's resume and say that means she must be tough on crime forget that she hasn't been a prosecutor for a decade and has been defending the biggest most powerful wall street c.e.ohe country. politically, it's banking on voters, on the elite media simply not knowing who she really is. i think as a citizen as somebody concerned with the fact that the administration hasn't prosecuted a single wall street banker connected to the financial crisis, i think this is a terrible pick. i think wall street is celebrating right now saying the person who's in in the s.c.c. looks like she's going to get tough on us, but we know she has a record of defending our interest. >> >> cenk: the new york times explains she's not going to face much opposition from the republicans. >> shocking. >> cenk: michael david and i are clear on this. what's your take? >> i agree with you which is not something we always do. i think that it's actually pretty shocking that this appointment came down. the only -- i was trying to think about what was the only reason. maybe david has insight in this. the only reason they could make this choice is they feel she would be good at implementing the dodd f