[applause] >> calls to raise the minimum wage as part of the president's very populace economic message. "america tonight"'s adam may, looking into the proposals and how they're going to affect real americans. >> and there's a reason why the president stuck with these very populace messages. they polled well among republicans and democrats. the president's most specific proposal is to raise the minimum wage, it would lift millions of americans in our country out of poverty. president obama, from $7.25 would like to make that $10.10 an hour. moving them from 15 to $21,000 a year. the president called to raise the minimum wage in his 2013 state of the union. he wanted to raise that to $9 back then but congress did not act. so this time he did something kind of unique. he actually offered a solution around congress urging state and local governments to raise their minimum wages on their own. in fact some states have already done that. california is a good example here, they are currently phasing in a $10 minimum wage, now up to $9 an hour. what we saw in a lot of those cases those raises b

more of the interests here is to create actually new fears and to ride on the tide of an increasing populace and debate in germany about migration. >> we've seen the u.k. for instance has rushed through legislation that prevents u.k. musicians ration for three months. is that the kind of thing that they're leading to in germany? >> that is one of the arguments. actually for the first three months, the new incoming migrants are not entitled anyway from socially benefits. but i think the larger issue here is amongst some conservative politicians, there is a dream after creating a for tress europe to create a fortress germany where you know this sort of migration can be, where new internal border can be drawn and unwanted migration can be kept part of germany. this is an illusion, of course, it chides with very basic principles within the eu anyway but it will also of course lead to more resistance in terms of those fathers who actually still hold up to this idea of freedom of movement within europe. >> i mean you mentioned the issue of needing workers, german chamber of commerce, that germany

little bit, roger ailes has been a bridge between the business country club republicans and the populacee collar democrats. the white catholic conservative voters. his political hero was george h.w. bush. he ran his media campaign in '88. took a country club republican like george h.w. bush, and he made him into a fire-breathing, flag-waving conservative. he hammered dukakis as soft on crime, weak on foreign policy. we put that hilarious ad with dukakis in the tank. he made george bush popular with the middle class. it works because it brings that coalition together. >> populism -- good, effective, motivating populism is much harder than it was. >> yes. >> gabriel sherman, author of "the loudest voice in the room," thank you. >> coming up, another way to screw people who don't have photo i.d.'s. that story is next. i was having trouble getting out of bed in the morning because my back hurt so bad. the sleep number bed conforms to you. i wake up in the morning with no back pain. i can adjust it if i need to...if my back's a little more sore. and by the time i get up in the morning, i feel

awareness that harm reduction is necessary and increase awareness of drug education in general among the populace. we released a mobile app that's essentially like a phone version of love our information. we're trying to increase the information on the substances. because of - due to the prohibition of common drugs theirs on a arms race to create new drugs like meth doctrine and meth lone were made legal by congress last year but there's an influx of new drugs like a b e and etc., so trying to stay on top of new drugs and to really educate people that we know nothing about those drugs for the most part and, you know, they might have a psych actually effects as a result of mixing them with other drugs >> commissioner joseph. >> just one other question you mentioned in your presentation smoking. we the entertainment commission there's no smoking allowed inside of public buildings and very often night clubs have smoking sections and now w you have to be a certain amount of feet away from 9 doors of establishment. how do we reduce smoking or how do businesses deal with the infiltration of smoke comin

little bit, roger ailes has been a bridge between the business country club republicans and the populacethe white catholic conservative voters. his political hero was george h.w. bush. he ran his media campaign in '88. took a country club republican like george h.w. bush, and he made him into a fire-breathing, flag-waving conservative. he hammered dukakis as soft on crime, weak on foreign policy. we put that hilarious ad with dukakis in the tank. he made george bush popular with the middle class. it works because it brings that coalition together. >> populism, good, effective, motivating populism is much harder than it was. >> yes. >> gabriel sherman, author of the loudest voice in the room, thank you. >> coming up, another way to screw people who don't have photo i.d.'s. that story is next. natural gas? nuclear? or renewables like solar... and wind? let's find out. this is where america's electricity comes from. a diversity of energy sources helps ensure the electricity we need is reliable. take the energy quiz. energy lives here. does it end after you've expanded your business?? after

. >> is it populace or class warfare? the on idea i heard yesterday is they will tax people who make $500,000 a year and put it into pre-k classes in new york city. >> obama ran on it himself. soak the rich. somehow the top 5% are responsible for all the woes. the top 5% pay for everybody else. in new york you will find the top earners pay for everybody else. what will they do? they will do what they have previously done. that will be a boon to places like new jersey and connecticut. they will just leave because they won't be subject to this demonization. >> we have the lowest tax rate since the eisenhower administration. trickle down only made the rich richer. that's why there is a vanishing middle class in is lake new york, something bill deblasio with his populace policies are helping to return. bill: the to be market they have seen their investments double. a tax structure that's 50% of your gross income. >> we have lower tax rates federally since the eisenhower administration and it's not working. >> you know what th

a lot of ways the very governments that are now creating some of these than national populace the political london. xd exploiting some of these in a populace that means are the ones they're also putting some checks announces on how widely spread of european political identity and can develop and trinkets at the end of the day the desert elections happening in may in this country. the party that tudor pole first is the far right national front. whisk in the future of europe and for those orange. yes and and today is not just in front is said and would win wimbledon little do the same daycare they will have had a considerable considerable st through to because of the books that they will be able to chew on irony. may be able to form. a euro skeptics law. music that they are so that they already having divisions and you know fight team for different points of view is usually the european far right causes you know the pain depending on season with the joining of the belgians for example he and i think it is a segment of the twelve though they will say will unfortunately be in that position beca

the populace that are people in the world of finance that we're nothing else but to make people who are all for their own benefit why should we allow them to do that this sticker indicates this restaurant accept cash the red wings a fish a no peach in french but also energy and the slogan was overlap h u r c is used to express someone is in good health and full of energy which the local currencies hailed from was certainly seem to be experts claim complimentary currencies will never replace an official one however if trust is undermined it hard enough and conventional money people may start looking for a different type of change. from france. and coming up later this hour the right wing voices in japan that's i guess a lotta. campaigning i'm going to get. off the mix of how national is that calling for need to regain self-respect and to make japan its presence felt after the break stay with us. iraq is clearly again falling back into extreme civil strife washington says it wants to help but most iraqis appear weary of any more american assistance then there is afghanistan washington pla

syria libya wherever the goal seems to be because what happens is they destroy those they leave the populace in chaos the infrastructure in shambles and whatever the the resources are that they want they managed to get those out just fine and you have to have a hard time believing that this is all an accident it's a very successful. project that they've been on and it's a pretty bright one all right richard please jump in in new york i mean i guess one way what don was saying we're getting legacies giving legacies go ahead richard. well let's not forget that the reason we went in in the first place was to get hold of. al qaida leadership to destroy that as a movement now we missed on both accounts but we have succeeded in the year when they're far from true. the the affiliates around the around in africa they're around in the middle east in syria etc but the goal was to get rid of them and we could not convince that then taliban authorities to hand them over that was against their they saw as against their interest in their tradition the little richard. richard don't you think now the united

the populace that are people in the world of finance that we're nothing else but to make people who are all for their own benefit why should we allow them to do that this sticker indicates this restaurant accept cash the red means a fishy no peach in french but also energy and the slogan was over your seed is used to express someone is in good health and full of energy which the local currencies here france certainly seem to be experts claim complimentary currencies will never replace an official one however if trust is undermined it hard enough in conventional money people may start looking for a different type of change. from france your head van overtveldt economic expert from belgium's new flemish alliance party explain why he thinks the easy economic crisis has turned into a political one. but are now a lot of people especially in the southern european countries and ireland that not only lost a job but also lost a larger or smaller part of their income so there are a huge amount of people in these crises countries that have a lot to be frustrated about and that is being felt now in

kicked off by too many government officials preventing banks from unloading toxic mortgages on a populace the people at the helm of solving global inequality are hollywood celebrities criminal bankers and giddy but kissing journalists so don't be fooled by all the hype because davos is really nothing more than a bunch of one percenters up in the alps laughing that you'll never have a golden ticket to the party. well you guys it's friday as usual i've been inundated with you guys the press seen as hell news all week so the line of food can't talk right now my good friend or you can have those the moment of clarity webster is here to break it all down what is going to be so lead up out of all of the. m.s.m. is obsession with justin bieber last week actually was really happy to hear congressman harman saying some really really cutting things about the n.s.a. . let's take a look i think at this point we should seriously consider not not can comment on it let me let me get down to you congresswoman let me interrupt you just for a moment we've got some breaking news out of miami standby. right

its own euro putting but despite ongoing economic woes the country with almost a quarter of its populace at risk of poverty is beginning its term as rotating e.u. president starting today let's take a look at a quick look at how the blocks policies affected athens and some other european economies in four years of austerity all the nations you see here will have their debts rise in greece and spain by forty percent this despite the fact that all countries adopting the euro mustn't allow their national public debt to exceed sixty percent of g.d.p. at the same time average income of those living in these fall in these countries has fallen except germany and it greece horsed of all meanwhile the country's leaders are giving assurances that athens will leave its bella program within the next year within that without the need for a third aid package when the greek journalist we talked to says what the e.u. did to his country is a cautionary tale. i believe that greece can give some lessons of how sturdy masers in a time of crisis and when a country has a huge problem that this is a very big o

. >> in order to do that you'd have to build a consensus with the general populace.bine that with the rest of the strength of this country as we should be seen growth of not one to 3 percent but 45%. neil: quickly, it is not that we're celebrating the large government action as what has separated us from arrests of the world. all letters artificial stimulus. >> we can get away with it. we have the world's largest economy. neil: thank you. good having you want. well, don't think this latest budget deal. chris christie in the wall street tighten, the deal the media is praising is our undoing. what super poligrip does for me is it keeps the food out. before those little pies would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. [ male announcer ] just a f dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. [ corrine ] super poligrip is part of my life now. de. ♪ neil: remember when paul ryan and patty murray scored that big budget deal buried each side took its lumps, but both sides got something done. well, exactly what got done? is seen as the f

. >> in order to do that you'd have to build a consensus with the general populace.that with the rest of the strength of this country as we should be seen growth of not one to 3 percent but 45%. neil: quickly, it is not that we're celebrating the large government action as what has separated us from arrests of the world. all letters artificial stimulus. >> we can get away with it. we have the wor's largest economy. neil: thank you. good having you want. well, don't think this latest budget deal. chris christie in the wall street tight, the deal the street tight, the deal the media is praising de. ♪ neil: remember when pau ryan and patty murray scored that big budget deal buried each side took its lumps, but both sides got something done. well, exactly what got done? is seen as the former chairman and friend of chris christie started looking under the boss. because he does, i keep doing that. you know what, they just discovered that someone has been spreading some heat. 63 billion. southern the reductions. revenue increases. neil: we should say wwill have more data an

your activity online and then you can get a search engine specific to you rather than the general populace>> reporter: now there is increasing demand for e-mail and mobilencrypted e-maig messages. there is not going to be a tangible record. things like snap chat are a new idea that are taking hold pretty quickly. >> reporter: they're already in use in show business but hollow graphic or 3d images are being developed for personal video calls. they're expensive, and the technology needed make it inaccessible to most but at least for now. the developers hope in time that their vision of the future will become part of every day life. >> very cold temperatures on the way. eboni is back with the forecast next on al jazeera america. >> hi, i'm meteorologist eboni deon. we're watching active weather taking shape across the country. it's been all rain here across much of the deep south where tempt artemperatures are milder. but the cold air is on the move and it will head into the northeast dropping our temperatures and bringing with it a little bit in the way of snow. some areas can see over a foo

takeover in cambodia, it was impossible for westerners to operate there and control on the local populace was such there was no independent journalism. if you look what is happening in syria today, extraordinarily difficult story to cover because of the logistics involved, because of infighting among various rebel groups fighting the assad regime. over the course of last year it was possible to send in teams of journalists to cover the story, very carefully and very well-planned operations with all sort of backup and logistics surrounding them. but in the last year or so it has become impossible to cover that story because the various rebel groups have started to abduct foreign journalists. right now there are as many as 18 foreign journalists who have been kidnapped in syria, some whose stories have been made public, some whose stories have not been made public. but it changed the whole equation of the coverage and essentially made it off limits for independent journalism to tell what's going on there. and as as a result the only information that's coming out in many cases a country like

whether the antiimmigration reform or pro, and our community is getting bigger, it's stronger more populace. and so if the republicans want to just forgot foresigh forget e latino vote, there are a lot of moderate republicans that are moving in the right direction. unfortunately most are in the senate but in the house even if you get a piecemeal approach and you roll something out in the course of the year five different elements, the ability for instance the legalization provisions, the border provisions, the provisions that allow individuals with high-level skills to stay in the united states, maybe you do that in the little slower basis in the senate. boehner, i know him, i served in the house with him. he's a realistic guy but he's got a caucus of tea party republicans who make it hard for him to maneuver and do what's best for not only the country but his own party. >> hillary clinton is expected to be the candidate for your party in 2016. yesterday you said that john kerry could be the candidate. is there a chance you could be a candidates yourself? >> you have one shot antonio, you d

together to show good stead to the people that they would make that change that they are equal to the populace they represent. the second question i would have is it seems was so much conversation about cutting back expenditures or increasing taxation and those two bipolar conversations, why there is not more emphasis on the contributions that the wealthier are getting as corporate fare, or wealthy fare, that there is such a move to cut welfare, when on a budget sheet, when you continue to give tax incentives to only one edge of the population, that is the same effectively as giving benefit packages to the wealthy. it does not seem to come out in the media. i am a republican and a conservative republican, but as i have studied this, i recognize that is pretty absent from the argument. it is just to not tax. but on the balance sheets, you either -- if you get an incentive or a benefit, it is coming from the revenue streams that come into the country. >> that is such a good point. i will take the second part of your question first. we have spent over $1 trillion on tax loopholes. it is become fa

together to show good stead to the people that they would make that change that they are equal to the populace they represent. the second question i would have is it seems was so much -- with so much conversation about cutting back expenditures or increasing taxation and those two bipolar conversations, why there is not more emphasis on the contributions that the are getting as corporate-fare, or wealthy fare, that there is such a move to cut welfare, when on a budget - sheet, when you continue to give tax incentives to only one edge of the population, that is the same effectively as giving benefit packages to the wealthy. it does not seem to come out in the media. i am a republican and a conservative republican, but as i have studied this, i recognize that is pretty absent from the argument. it is just to not tax. but on the balance sheets, you either -- if you get an incentive or a benefit, it is coming from the revenue streams that come into the country. >> that is such a good point. i will take the second part of your question first. we have spent over $1 trillion on tax loopholes. it has

>> we had a great populace year.to necessarily confirm or deny this year's participation. that is trade secret. we'll keep our cards close to the vest on but we certainly saw a significant pop in sales when we did our commercial last year in bunch of markets we ran it in. we're satisfied and consider that again. cheryl: my coanchor is smoking one up. it is illegal in new york city. david: that's a good question. now, what i am doing right now, i'm wondering, craig, if mayor bloomberg, of course he is no longer mayor, we have a a illegal? this is public building. spoking e-cigarette, we're talking puffs is it illegal or not. >> i won't tell anyone if you don't. i would say, i would say, obviously enjoy the as inch door smoking bans include bans on indoor smoking the cigarettes. we're not just opposed. pretty prominent people. tom glenn from the american cancer society felt those were counter productive what new york did. very powerful articles, for example, in yesterday's "journal of the american medical association."

the american populace releasing. they're going radical. and we've got to get in the game. if we don't, we'll end up with people like ralph nader. first we have to control public opinion. think tanks will constantly turned out. our point is competing with ralph nader. the second night, by buying it or influencing it. we need to influence the textbooks. we need possessors enter college. they need to take control of the court systems, get our people in the course. he went through this long list of basically all the institutions. of course the institutions and governments need to get our people elected to the house of government to get them on the supreme court. and out of this that no, by the way, if you miss if you miss after he wrote the memo, richard nixon put him on the supreme court. and then we started getting decisions at buckley versus the layout speech corporations are people and he was wanted to be for citizens united came along in 2010. but anyhow, lewis powell, what came out of that was the american legislative exchange council. i don't want everyone to vote. elec

. >> is there a way to change the populace opinion of banking? not was -- if it for bankers lending to small businesses and americans when many could not live the american dream. >> i think the americans like that, but what they do not like was the bailout to the fact that be could lose money, and made whole by the federal government. there has to be risk, reward. when in your major company loses money can be cannot have the federal government say they are too big to fail. it is not about banking, it is that theyerception have great upside if they can make money, and if they lose money, they are going to be bailed out. that is the perception and the reality we have to change. went to let the banks that are too big but -- too big to fail, fail, if they in fact, screw up. aware ofthink they are how bad fannie and freddie are. i think the media should pay a lot more attention. thatd it hard to accept jpmorgan is being fined and paying the money to fannie and freddie when they were the ones that issued a guaranteed all of these subprime mortgages tha

we have to have a scientifically literate populace in order to solve the world's problems, make lifeas possible in the coming decades. to have the scientifically illiterate point of view in your neighborhood, or in the state, is not in anyone's best interests, and so we're going to talk about it. >> let me ask you, bill, because not everybody is in your camp on this, even on the evolution side. one science blogger, greg lleyton, is criticizing your participation, and says -- bill nye is not an expert on evolution, and not that experienced in debates, bag really pro-science and science education is not enough. when they went in after osama bin laden, they did not send people really against terrorism, they sent in s.e.a.l. team 6. what do you make of that criticism, bill? >> for me, i think the word debate is used loosely here. i'm not going to change this guy's mind. i imagine he'll fill the audience with his own supporters, but -- >> you're going to be outnumbered there? >> yeah, i believe so. i would be surprisefold i weren't, but bring it on. for the people who live in that area, t

in terms of participation, the populace, they are less active, but that is not sure if libertarian spirit it's interesting to point out that ross perot did very well for a third-party candidate from that group. quit nuke of the two as well as another person. if you look up to support the democrats have gotten over time, they're getting a significant amount of support compared to moderate. they're actually getting more than they are from populist groups. i find that significant. >> may just add one thing. they have become more correlated over time partisanship and ideology. we measured different ways. the single left right dimension is offering more purchase in explaining public opinion perhaps now than it used to. >> the correlation at heart and ship is it? it does two dimensions, the core values become more correlated. that's what i don't necessarily see happening. >> thank you. my name is bill being. this goes to you -- since we're talking about going forward and the libertarians. you brought the word up a couple of times. the word libertarian up a couple times. you brought the word tea

cities very often mounted these enormous celebrations to celebrate the emperors, and all the populace have been expected to come and join in. >> narrator: at these great public ceremonials, christians were becoming all too often conspicuous by their absence. >> when the christians really do become much more prominent in the social arena of greek and roman cities, the pagans start to take note of their absence from important festival days and their unwillingness to participate in certain aspects of social life. >> judaism had long ago come to a legal agreement with the emperor that they would... jews would not be forced to participate in pagan rituals. and pagan rituals are part of the normal fabric of life in a roman city. jews were exempted from this because romans knew the jews were odd about this kind of thing. >> now, along come this new group, the christians, and they're behaving the same way, but they obviously aren't ancient. they started under pontius pilate; they say so themselves. so it's novel. but if it's novel, from the roman point of view, it cannot be a religion. religi

: this morning i couldn't help but notice the anger and amongsttration of -- agains the american populace. i'm 555 years old and i've never witnessed this until today. it is scary to me. are politicians and policies -- no thanks to mr. snowden, ei ther, but he has created a major fiasco. the country as a whole, it just seems like everyone is frustrated to a level like i've never seen before. ok, bill. let's show you how it is playing on the front pages of the newspaper. theirashington times," front page, " benghazi was preventable." here is the front page of "the new york times." "benghazi attack called avoidable incident report -- in the senate report." report is broadly consistent with the findings of previous inquiries but it is the first public examination of a breakdown in communication between the state department and the cia during the weeks leading up to the daily episode of the diplomatic compound where chris stevens, the american investor, died. it is the first report to implicitly criticize mr. stevens, raising questions about his judgments and actions in the weeks before his d

it causes fear and concern throughout the entire american populace and the world uneasy about the future of the united states with these kind of debts. so the point i would say is let's do some things that fix the disease and the disease is an excessive government domination of the economy that's suppressing growth and prosperity, suppressing wages, and government actions that create more unemployment and part-time employment than is necessary and should be happening. that's the problem we need to be addressing, and the symptoms of that are being addressed when you deal with unemployment insurance or mandatory wage rates. madam president, i thank the chair and my colleagues for the opportunity to share these thoughts. i really do believe senator ayotte's proposal to deal with the wasted, fraudulent abuse of tax money through the improper use of the i.t.n., individual tax identification number is very real, it's very effective, would save billions of dollars and help us pay for some of the things we'd like to do and that is what we should be doing, not adding more debt to the people of am

we cannot allow for this european populace to worry about the things that the united states worries about. egg notchesuple of on her belt so far, the , it isnt in the balkans not the end of solution there, it is the beginning of solution for those two countries. there have been some anxiety as to how it did not play out exactly as expected. we're trying to keep an open line of mitigation with iran, that it was to replace that has a diplomatic solution -- that gets us to a place that has a diplomatic solution. that is the quickest way you get to a solution, because that is the only thing that is standing in the white -- way of macedonia joining nato. i take your comments seriously, and we will examine this weekend's summit and other venues for the way that we can the two sides to talk together more. >> senator mccain? >> i do not share my friends opinion. on the case of macedonia and greece, it is just ,ncomprehensible to many of us how important a name is to our greek friends. as we continue to hope that this will review -- will be resolved, ofhave the name macedonia be such offense to ou

you'd think that the people who are in office are more in touch with the general concerns of the populace at large. what happens is you have these matching funds or some system where you bring more people into the system, and then when you have the two years of the legislative session, that goes away. so you have people who are new to legislating and maybe voters who have gotten involved, and then there's nothing to support their participation through that two years. so one hypothesis, my contention, is that what happens, that all goes away, and then you're left with this permanent class of lobbyists and special interests to help part-time legislators do what the lobbyists and special interests want them to do. so i guess my question is, are there insights from public funding that we can take to actual law making, and should we be thinking more about the two years of governing as a, as a complement to public funding? >> you know, we -- there are only three states with full public funding, and some of the experts are in the room, all right? but one has an impression but there have been no

. >> it is so hot, there are concerns about power outages, a number expected in more populace areas. players actually passing out courtside. >> these athletes are well conditioned, but this type of heat in the triple digit is a problem. a lot of top-seeded players trying to overcome that. maria the is no stranger to the heat, by sharapova trying to beat the heat. down 6-5, cannot return the serve, the match goes six all. 102 degrees when this began. now once again serving to hold on. remember the aussie open, you have to win by two games. after a long rally, she sends the ball into the net, sharapova ties the match at seven. she took four match points before getting her to hit the ball long and sharapova advances to the third round. the temperature at the end of the match, almost 109. the heat taking its toll. >> there's no way of getting around the fact that the conditions were extremely difficult and have been for the last few days. >> it was really hard, but i know that it was hot for me, but i know it was hot also for maria and everywhere, both fighting with the heat. >> i just l

dare i say without being a populace here, there are a lot of dwayne's sitting at home because companies more money by employing a lot less people. senator? >> we have had huge gains in manufacturing and manufacturing is reorganize back but most of that has gone to the bottom lines of corporations rather than to putting people back to work. >> people aren't making 35 dollars an hour but $16 an hour doing the same jobs where they would have been making double and having great benefits just ten years ago. >> but i'm convinced there is a real moment of opportunity here for us to come together in a bipartisan way to do the things we can do to strengthen skills and strengthen exports and strengthen research. we have grown more than 600,000 manufacturing jobs the last three years, and those can be strong jobs for the future. if you look at germany and how they do in relation to europe as a manufacturing company, we can take that role for much of the rest of the world but it requires good policy and it requires us getting past short-term politics. >> lee? >> i mean, this is very topical right n

then you can go to search engine specific to you, rather than general populace. >> in 2013, we learned how spy agencies track us and can read our communications. now, there's increasing demand for secure and encrypted email and mobile messaging. >> this has led to the rise of apps like snap chat. >> when you share the photo, it deletes itself after the person saw it, so there's not going to be a tangible record. we are all learning that the internet doesn't forget. snapshot is a new idea that are taking hold pretty quickly. >> they're already alcoholo graphs being developed the big three have rebounded and the future looks even brighter. >> the big three detroit based automakers are on a roll, chrysler, ford and general motors on a record pace to close 2013 exporting more than 2 million cars and trucks around the world. >> so there's still many more imports than exports, but right now, the trajectory is exports will continue to grow for the next three to five years. >> the turnaround comes four years after ford was in financial turmoil and both chrysler and g.m. nearing bankruptcy. for

you'd think that the people who are in office are more in touch with the general concerns of the populace at large. what happens is you have these matching funds or some system where you bring more people into the system, and then when you have the two years of the legislative session, that goes away. so you have people who are new to legislating and maybe voters who have gotten involved, and then there's nothing to support their participation through that two years. so one hypothesis, my contention, is that what happens, that all goes away, and then you're left with this permanent class of lobbyists and special interests to help part-time legislators do what the lobbyists and special interests want them to do. so i guess my question is, are there insights from public funding that we can take to actual law making, and should we be thinking more about the two years of governing as a, as a complement to public funding? >> you know, we -- there are only three states with full public funding, and some of the experts are in the room, all right? but one has an impression but there have been no