[applause] roemer is a louisiana native, a former member of congress and served as governor of louisiana from 19881990 two. He was a president ial candidate in 2012 with a platform centered unrigging the system. Washington is bought and sold. Special interest control washington, d. C. He has not been invited to a single televised debate. Wake up, america, they stole your government. [applause] buddy welcome to louisiana. [applause] stay be wonderful. Was a governor 30 years ago after eight years of congressmen. I have been around the world a couple of times. And i can tell you that louisiana is one of the special places in the world. Flora, fauna, rivers, french heritage, some call occasion call it cajun. I speak slowly as i get old diabetic am a type one and have diabetic neuropathy. And mycts both my speech walking and gets worse and worse , so i apologize. Thisise the work of convocation. I ran for the United States congress five times. Them, successfully. Ran for governor and won it upset. After 20 years out of politics, iran for president i ran for president unsuccessfully. I never took pac money for either of those races. [applause] and i did not take contributions of more than 100. [applause] money spent against me in the millions while in office. Usually, i beat it. Works against honesty, reality and, america. To the special interest, trade associations, and large corporations. To keep your job, you dont follow your values you follow the money. Cussed andten discussed these days. On a main theme, he is right on one main theme, he is right drain the swamp. , the tradedia associations, and the bureaucracy think they control america. They dont. We do. Work hard and have fun. I am 100 with you. Thank you. [applause] [applause] now for someone who needs little introduction. I am delighted to welcome my fellow board member and Academy Awardwinning actress Jennifer Lawrence. [applause] jennifer hi. In 2011, Stephen Colbert stunned america by starting his own super pac and he showed just how thin the line is between bribery and legal political contribution. Seven years later, we want to check in on how all of that is going. Please welcome his personal pac,r for the super current president of the Campaign Legal center, trevor potter. [applause] much. thank you so welcome, trevor. I will jump right in. I am hollywood elite, so, as a hollywood elite, i want all of the influence i can buy but i am sure there are limits. If i wanted to give as much money as i wanted, it would be 1000 would be the limit . Trevor the legal limit you can ise directly to a candidate 2700. Before you get nervous that that is not enough, you can give as much as you want to help the candidate. You just give it to a super pac, a single candidate super pac that can then go and spend it on behalf of the candidate. In thereme Court Citizens United case struck down existing limits and said corporations, individuals could spend as much as they wanted to help candidates because that sort of independent spending could never be corrupted. [laughter] jennifer that money is not going to a candidate, right . They do not have any say on how that money is being used . That would be a slush fund, monday money laundering. Trevor Justice Kennedy assumed this spending would be completely independent of candidates and parties, that these groups would operate as outsiders. But that is not how it has turned out. Candidates nowadays create their own independent super pacs before they become candidates and they raise money with these super pacs. Once they become candidates, they can spend it to elect the candidate. Jennifer pretty clever. Once they become candidates, they cannot touch any of it. [applause] trevor it takes them a surprisingly long time to become candidates. You might recall jeb bush in 2016 who spent six or nine months going around the country traveling at the expense of the super pac, raising tens of millions of dollars saying he was thinking of exploring the possibility of considering whether to become a candidate. He did all that and then jumped into the race. Jennifer but once they sign all the paperwork, then they have to stay away from super pacs, right . Trevor there are lots of ways they can and do stay in contact. For example, the federal Elections Commission says it is all right for candidates to appear at super pac fundraisers, either to raise small amounts or to be a featured or honored guest. That may not sound like a lot of contact to you, but the fec has said you can have one of these fundraisers with as few as two guests. Kind of a private fundraiser. The candidate can thank people for giving and ask them to help support the work of the pac. The fec has come up with the two cats rule. You can be the principal fundraiser for a candidate and the fundraiser for the super pac. Jennifer there is a wall between candidates and super pacs and if i throw big money at a super pac, my personal politician does not get to decide how it is spent, right . Trevor well, that is technically correct except that the people who do decide how to spend it are usually, in this scenario, the former Campaign Manager of the candidate or a close friend of the candidate and one of my favorite examples, the parents of the candidate who are running the super pac. They also can share common vendors so they can use the same consultants. Basically, it is the other pocket on the candidates coat. Jennifer if the candidate tells the super pac what to do with the money, that is legal . Trevor that would be illegal. However, first they have to get caught and then the ftc has to have a majority vote on whether and the fecte it, is deadlocked on all of this. Jennifer if they break the rules, what is the punishment . A really big fine . Trevor the fec has never actually punished a candidate for coordinating with a super pac. They have never seen an example of that. Jennifer they must be blind, bless their hearts. Lets say my candidate is testing the waters and they got caught telling a super pac what to do and the fec stormed down on them with power and fury. Trevor the first thing to remember is the candidate is almost never fined. The committee or the super pac or the treasurer might be, but not the candidate. , theey levy a fine candidate or the super pac has to pay voluntarily, and if they do not agree, the ftc has to take them to court. If they do all of that, the problem is would the fec actually collected . There are fines that have been levied that the fec never got around to collect. Jennifer i can give as much as pac and thereper are no repercussions for the candidate. What about me . Trevor if you did not have a good lawyer and you gave directly, yes, you would be listed as the donor of the super pac. Lawyer, they good would say to you, you can give through an llc. You can create one. Anythingould be named you want. You could name it after your cat. Do you have a cat . Jennifer gof. No. But i do have a dog. Pippy lawrence stockings. Be to your option would take a Million Dollars and give it to one of these taxexempt nonprofit groups, a dark money expose they do not disclose their donors. They can go ahead and spend it themselves or give it to the super pac and your name will never be out there. The Supreme Court said, dont worry about all of this new spending because it will be fully disclosed. That is not turned out to be the way they expected it to be. Jennifer ok. Lets say we have weathered the storm, my candidate is elected by want to buy more politicians. Lets say you are a politician. Could i just get you a bunch of bribes to get you to do stuff . Trevor depending on who the politician was, yes. [laughter] mcdonnell ofor virginia just had his conviction 11 bribery charges overturned by the Supreme Court. I bet that surprises you. Jennifer i am very surprised. I could just get you a rolex or pay for your daughters wedding . Trevor literally, all of those things were taken by governor mcdonnell. His lawyers argued that was not a bride because what he did in return did not count as an official act. You only introduced the businessman to state officials themsked them to meet with and held events in the governors mansion. The Supreme Court bought that argument. They said that was not a bride but constituent services. To chief justice referred outofstate contributors to. Andidates as constituents i guess that means that every wealthy favor seeker in the country with a checkbook and a pocket full of rolexes can go right ahead. Jennifer this is all really disturbing. Bribery is legal. In america. Corruption is legal. Are we at a Tipping Point . What will it take to get to a point where we were at postwatergate where congress felt obliged to take bold measures . Trevor i think we are at a Tipping Point. The good news is it is not too late. [applause] out there, at polls about half the people say we should completely get rid of the current campaignfinance system and put in a new one. 30 say we should just make major changes in the system. Everybody is on board with doing something. Congress could pass bills that are sitting there, like the honest ads act, the disclose act. There are states and cities around the country doing interesting things. Seattle has a citizen voucher program. The fec could update its Disclosure Rules enforced existing laws and crackdown on this nonclinical coronation noncoordination coordination racket. We have to Work Together to make it happen. [applause] jennifer thank you for coming on the show. Our next speaker is an attorney and the National Campaigns director for honor the earth. She was an advisor on native american issues for the Bernie Sanders campaign. She has been a powerful voice for justice on a stunning array of issues. [applause] how are you guys doing . I would like to acknowledge whose land whereon right now. No other people have had relationship with the u. S. Government quite like the Indigenous People. We have had promises that have werebroken when treaties made. We talk about treaties like they are archaic. A u. S. Led government systematically disempowered native people and take our children from us. In 2016, i thought i had a pretty good idea of what political corruption was. I worked in d. C. And on capitol sandersrked for bernie [applause] but it was not until i went to north dakota that i truly understood what that meant. The Dakota Access pipeline, i saw corruption and corporate greed firsthand. I watched Indigenous People think pushed off their lands. And interviewed women and children who had been bitten by attack dogs. When i was arrested, i was put into a dog kennel and stripsearched for a misdemeanor charge. That is a pretty interesting concept. I saw hundreds of people suffering from hypothermia and i saw bullets that left holes in peoples legs from fighting this pipeline unarmed. I saw women who have really lost their vision in one eye. When you look at that and you remember that all of this happened because of the pipeline, all this happened to unarmed people who pay the salaries of the Law Enforcement doing this. All of these Human Rights Violations happened on u. S. Soil. There were veterans who said it was like a war zone, that they could not believe this was happening in the u. S. We fight still, they did not break us. We continue to fight still. [applause] time, we are fighting a line through the Mississippi River to the shores of lake said. Lake superior. All. Ght for us we are fighting for your water and your childrens futures. When i sit in spaces like this and we hear conversations about corporate greed and influence of politics, influence of money into politics, it is difficult after you have seen Something Like that. Something like that fundamentally changes the way you look at justice. We recognize that something is wrong. We recognize that we need change. We recognize, usually, special interest influence our Government Systems and people do not hold the same rights that corporations do. We need more than just words. We need action, engagement beyond social media shares. Incremental change is not going extreme climate. It is not going to stop police brutality. It is not going to stop our friends and neighbors being deported. It will not stop the destruction of protected lands. Today is friday. There is a land rush on a sacred site and other National Parks right now in 2018. That narrative of seeing it is madness that is happening. We also recognize that some of the most oppressed, consistently forgotten people in this country led one of the most significant environmental movements in decades. We reached millions of people around the world. [applause] we inspired resistance that continues. The targeting the banks that fund these projects, we have cost the industry billions of dollars. Billions of dollars from committed people. The language of money is a powerful campaigning tool but in the end, the one truth is that we cannot drink money. Climate change and a lack of clean Drinking Water becomes a reality. The first u. S. Climate change refugees are here in louisiana. Indigenous people whose homelands are underwater. It is time to learn from our past mistakes. It is justice for all. Remember that we have to be inclusive and collaborate together. We have to find Real Solutions in these urgent times and please, please, heed the message from the original people water is life. [applause] thank you, tara. Our next speaker has been a democracy reform activist and leader for more than three decades, including over 25 years with common cause. Kare karen thank you. It is great to be here today. To hear from these powerful speakers. I am so encouraged by the crowd we have here today and that are joining us for three days to talk about how we can Work Together and collaborate to tackle the very difficult challenges we face. John gardner founded common cause 50 years ago because he banks, pharma, oil and gas, they had representatives lobbying on capitol hill and they were giving Huge Campaign contributions and they often got what they wanted. He formed common cause to take on the special interest and to be working on ways that the peoples voice can be heard in our democracy. Common cause worked at the state and local level and at the federal level to move transparency reform, freedom of information reform, ethics, Campaign Finance reform as well as election reform. Not because they are an end to themselves but because they allow people to take on power so their voices are heard in elections, district lines are not drawn to stifle peoples voice. Politicians choose voters insert of the other way around. That work continues and many groups have joined this movement, which i think is so important because we will never win if we do not have more people joining us. I wanted to talk about the challenges our movement faces and what we need to do to take advantage of this opportunity where millions of people understand that our system is broken and needs to be fixed. First, i think we can learn some. Essons from the right one of the challenges we faced over the last few decades is that the far right has invested millions of dollars in tackling and taking down the reforms we pass. Millionaires like the Koch Brothers provide funding for groups sos, legal they can sue every Campaign ReformCampaign Finance reform bill that has been passed and help to bring us Citizens United decision. Funded rightwing media sources, groups like the American Legislative Exchange council to work with state legislatures to move an antigovernment, antiregulation, and antidemocracy platform and move that at the state level. Organizations that work with thousands of Ground Troops who are working on get out the vote and encouraging and voting for candidates and in between elections, they spend their time recruiting for more people to get involved. We do not have this kind of infrastructure yet. That is what we have to work on. We have to look at this as a longterm effort to be moving reform that breakdown barriers to participation and we need donors and funders to support that work. Over the long haul. We also need to recognize there is no silver bullet. There are a lot of single issue organizations out there. Important andre there is no one single issue that trumps all others. We also need to simultaneously be tackling institutional and structural racism. One way to do that is to be looking the reforms [applause] the reforms we need to move with an equity lands to see if there to see if there are unintended consequences. We do not have a reflective democracy. 51 of our population are women but they only hold 29 of the seats of the local all the way up to the federal level. Women of color represent hold 4 of the seats. This is in blue states, red states, and states. The states. Purple states. We need to make it easier for people to run for office. In a place like connecticut, where i helped lead an effort to move small donor Public Financing, candidates who were not wealthy could afford to run for office by collecting small contributions and getting a grant. They could bring their issue to the table. They could listen to their constituents. What do they want . Juvenile Justice Reform, ending the death penalty, environmental reforms. That is why this matters. We also need to break out of our echo chamber. The truth is, when common cause is working on issues like voting reform, small donor Public Financing, we work with applicants an independents. It is not just progressives that support this work. It is hard to imagine him him we look at the cnc the dysfunction there that we are moving it is hard to imagine when we look at d. C. And we see the dysfunction there. We need to recognize that. Emocracy is 365 days a year it is not just around election time. We see groups come in and funders come in to focus on the three months before an election. Wed to be engaging people after the election. We need to be engaging people after the election. We need to move legislation that can make a difference for peoples lives. This is so that we can have the clean water we need for our communities, the clean water for places like flint, michigan, and that is why we need to move these reforms. We need to recognize that the state and localities are leading the way and you will hear over the next couple of days Inspiring Stories of how that is happening now. When you are thinking about the challenges we face in washington, d. C. , i believe the state and cities are going to be leading the way in this reform effort. One of the things i think about when i think about some of what we are facing i am inspired by the millions and millions of activists protesting in the streets and not just to resist the trump administration, their actions on immigration or health care. They are joining our group our membership has catapulted they want to be engaged in moving these reforms at the state of local level. They want to be part of the fight for redistricting. That is what inspires me and i am very excited to work with all of you as we come together so we can figure out how we can Work Together on this work. Thank you. [applause] speaker serves as a harvarddvisor at university. He now serves as the National Court in eating quote in dintingcommittee coor committee. Please welcome renaldo pearson. [applause] i attended morehouse college. The alma mater of dr. Martin luther king. Naturally, i took a deep dive in Civil Rights Movement history. I went to pick up Michelle Alexanders book. By the fact that another system had arisen out of the ashes that dr. King and others fought so hard to dismantle. I became a criminal justice advocate and the youngest member of the mass incarceration pushed the Obama Administration to end the war on drugs and the mass incarceration its bond. It spawned. Long for me to that no matter how many we continue to face diminishing returns due to the bigmoney interest that block the necessary legislative reforms that most americans support. This was not just the case with criminal Justice Reform but it remains true for issues across the gamut of Public Interest, a living wage, Debt Free College andation, support for daca, the list goes on. Happened and that election revealed a problem so big that you almost have to step back just beyond the echo chamber of punditry just to see it. A broken democracy. More specifically, it revealed what i called the seven deadly sins of american democracy. Voter suppression. Despite internationally low voter turnout, 99 bills were introduced to restrict access to registration and voting. Voter erasure. The reason for not amend and wherecent phenomena i voters were purged from the rolls. Felon disenfranchisement. Theirns who have served time are still barred from the right to vote. The corrupting influence of money in politics. Gerrymandering. This is nothing more that a practice of politicians choosing their voters. Systems. E voting not just the russian tampering but also the uncounted spoiled ballots. Finally, the Electoral College. If we are to fix our democracy, america must finally face the fact that the Electoral College is a vestige of our nations original sin of slavery. [applause] 3 5 compromise, anyone . Not to mention the of oneutional principle person, one vote. Before dr. King was assassinated, he was preparing to preach a sermon titled why america may go to hell. This sermon is more typical of today, not because of those seven deadly sins alone but because those sins aided and abetted by the ageold trick of divide and conquer politics are keeping us from addressing the and the existential threats of climate change. Not to mention the common challenges like economic inequality and mass incarceration. Dr. King was not able to preach that sermon but he left us some clues. Either we will learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. He said, now more than ever before, america is challenged to realize it stream for the shape of the world realized it stream for the shape of the world today does not provide the luxury for an anemic democracy. The hour is late and the clock of destiny is taking out. Ticking. We must act now before it is too late. The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight then has been since the height of the cold war in 1953 and the evaporating timeline climate scientist say we have to reverse the effects of climate change, it is more precious today than ever before. In a real and apocalyptic sense,. Merica may go to hell we still have a fighting chance. We must work with a fierce urgency to redeem this nation of those seven deadly sense. We cannot do it without the nonviolent direct action we need. [applause] from the founding revolution to womens suffrage and civil rights, no major, craddick struggle has been no democratic struggle has been won without the sword that heals. We organize the largest civil disobedience this century in april of 2016 against bigmoney and politics and voter suppression. [applause] with the regression we are seeing at the federal level, we must build a grassroots nonviolent army to take that fight to local and state levels to win things like automatic voter registration, Public Financing for campaigns. [applause] this, there is this misconception that civil. Isobedience is a leftist tool dr. King did not see it that way. And neither did republican new york governor Nelson Rockefeller when he said he sent the money to bail out the children who put their bodies on the line in the Birmingham Campaign in the 1960s. Nonviolent direct action is not the liberal or conservative thing to do. It is the right thing to do. [applause] it is the right thing to do in the face of unequal and unjust laws and those seven deadly sins fit the bill. [applause] the fact of the matter is that this is a decisive moment in the american story and a new chapter is being written. This calls for real patriots and creative synergy sacrifice. Real patriots who see the urgency of collaboration and put their careers and bodies on the line to get into what john lewis calls good trouble. [applause] i will leave you with these words. The world is equally balanced between good and evil. Your next act will tip the scales. [applause] thank you, rinaldo. A professor of law at leadership at Harvard Law School and one of the most compelling voices of the Anticorruption Movement and a prolific Public Interest entrepreneur. He started change congress, mayday pac, he ran for president on a platform to unrig the system. Please welcome our next speaker. [applause] the fact is, none of us want to be here. [laughter] literally. N this is new orleans and i am sharing a stage with Jennifer Lawrence and buddy roemer. I am perfectly happy to be here today. None of us want to have to be here. None of us want to be living in a democracy where our first fight has got to be about that democracy because all of us believe that there are real things, important things, substantial things that this democracy must do but that it cannot do now. Some of us want to address climate change, finally. Some of us want to fight the inequality that has shot through. He society this is america and that is not right. Some of us wanted to kickstart the economy were middleclass wages hover and they do not rise productivity and corporate and rise. Se, rise, for two generations, 50 of americans have seen no growth in their income. Last year, 1 of americans captured 82 of the wealth that this economy created. That is not right. Whatever the issue, whatever the want, what we know is we we wont address any of these until we fixly this democracy first. This we all know. What we dont know is how we do that. I dont mean what changes we need to make. How do we get america to take up the fight to take back our democracy . That begins by speaking an obvious truth. They dont represent us. Has spent 3070 of their time sucking up to 100,000 rich people, they do not represent us. When gerrymandering makes congressman care only about the , theys of their own party do not represent us. They represent them. When the president get elected statestem that that represent only 35 of america, we know that president cannot represent us. Them. Resent [applause] us. Dont represent you are aue whether republican or democrat, whether you are from montana or north carolina, whether you are old or not yet old, whatever your race, ex, they your s dont represent us. That truth is step one. Step two is to use that truth, a truth already believed by practically every american, to build a different kind of Political Movement. A Political Movement that steps to the side and above partisan politics. , there areamerica thousands who have been inspired by reverend barber. Those thousands, tens of thousands, go from community to community to say how can we possibly disagree. Black citizens travel to kkk country and sitting at the kitchen tables of men whose fathers burned crosses. From that question, a question with only one possible answer, the moral Majority Movement is building a movement. For the first time ever, just maybe. Here,d a moral movement too. We need a movement that does not just hang around in d. C. But gets citizens to walk with citizens. On this issue, we are not divided. We are united. Step three, we must turn those citizens to our leaders, to the people we elect to represent us, and tell them, if you want our votes, you must commit to fixing this democracy first. At some point, my friends, we have to draw a line of integrity across the ground that stand before us and ask on which side you stand . It is fine to talk about singlepayer health care but it is not serious unless you show us how you will fix the democracy first. Its wonderful to rail against corporate welfare, as conservatives and libertarians call it, but its useless unless you explain to us how you will fix this democracy first. We know their words mean nothing unless they fix this democracy first. [applause] we have been patient for way too long. We had been way too polite for way too long. Must feel our entitlement. We are citizens, and this is a democracy, and use that power to make this change happen now because we cannot afford to be hanging around in conferences like this. We cannot afford a democracy that still needs to fix itself. There is too much to be done. There is too much that a moral america, the only Great America that i can imagine, a moral america must do, so, my friends, let us, like reverend barber, bring america to its feet. Andus get america to walk, in those walks, as dr. King asked us, let us dream. Dream again of the greatness a democracy in america could give if we could only finally sing in unison to everyone who asks us for our vote. I will stand with you if you , i will fix this democracy first now. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, larry. Ar next and final speaker is journalist, bestselling author, and the founder of an innovative approach to connecting with autistic children. His books like confidence men and the price of loyalty have chronicled and defined presidencies. He lectures about narrative and justice at Harvard Law School. Please welcome ron sus kind. [applause] thank you. I looked across the roster, and i realized i am just about the only working journalist here today, so i thought i would speak for we enemies of the people. Thats one of me. Someone must. Someone must. Look, we as reporters are used to being hated. I mean, that is part of the job. You know . We are a scorch scourge. Coveredthe folks i have have not liked me very much. [imitates bill clinton] i mean, some of them, i think, felt i mean, ive got nothing against you personally, but that newspaper. Er damn [normal voice] and some of them have just outright hated me. It is easy to do the bush walk. You just tighten your sinker sphincter. [imitates george w. Bush] i dont know if i should hug you or kill you. Normal voice] my wife wont let me do trump anymore in the house, so i just do it out here on spaces. This is nixon, this is eldridge cleaver, this is trump. Everyone can do it. Little finger up just like that, then you get the pinky out. This man is keeping me up at night. Hes keeping us all up at night. Were all god damn sleepless. First of all, take the god damn cell phone out of the bedroom. Youve got an alarm clock. Thats your clock. For the phone in the bedroom. By 8 00, we are a disaster. That is part of trumps plan. Tweeting. Up at 3 45 you are waking up to trump. What a nightmare. I mean, i feel for millennia. Have to wake up to that man. Not that she does it very often. I feel form a lot of you i feel for melania. Larry at class with Harvard Law School. I know this whole movement you all are part of. The system is busted. Are saying busted, fix it. Thats a high majority of people. In some ways, the moment you are now is the ideal movement the ideal moment because fear works. Fear drives change. We hate to admit that. Everyone here likes hope better, right . I wont even get into my relationship with barack obama, but we do like hope better. We do. But we have got to respect fear. It drives change and history. Thing ect another years ago, i was talking to a famous psychiatrist about something that was not working in my family. My mother would not admit to something. She would not admit that she was starting into alzheimers. She knew it, but we cannot talk about it. Jewish, cuban cuban jew they are called cuban, jewish, cuban jews they are called jewbans. You must remember to respect denial. Its a key part of the human architecture, allowing us to get when we do morning not think we can get up, when the world has thrown so much at us, it seems untenable. We need to all respect denial. Theres a lot of people in the country in denial. When you respect them out there in your campaign, when you respect them in all the ways you rewrite or hope to rewrite the laws and your understanding of them, and that is what the journalist tries to do, but there are principles. We know that. There is also compromise. Let me just talk a minute about it. Because it is hard. There are many rooms like this, like the other side is the enemy. I cannot even beat in the same room with them. We have been here before. This is often the way it is in this country. Us and them. I mean, they are not even a human being like me. How can i a core them the respect of the negotiation . Lets be very clear about this. Fate. S fact, not this country has survived from its start on compromise. The senate and the house compromise. Big states versus little one. Everything with one exception one single moment when we could not compromise, and that is called civil war. That is the dilemma we are all in now. I call it something, though, that is different. I call it principled compromise. First, we have to agree on fundamental principles. We all agree on that, dont we . The first thing you do. Unless there is that foundation, we are lost, and there are fundamental principles we do agree about. One man, one vote. Law. Of without that, theres nothing. Pursuit of happiness, liberty, as long as it does not infringe upon the rights of someone else or harm them. Fundamental. And finally, the free press. Thats right. [applause] kind we are the only profession mentioned in the bill of rights. Doesnt that get us something . What does that mean . Whats our job . Our job is simply in this context of this thing we call our democracy to nourish , not justo inform it the facts, the context. Heres plenty of facts unless they are in the context that is true and thoughtful and. Orked through, they just float are you hearing me, fox news . When little example. Trey gowdy just left congress, right . One year, one day, june of an election year, i am watching fox news. Ninemonth investigation on hillary in benghazi. Nine months. Fox news put so much airtime into it they could have read war and peace backwards and russian. This gets 30 seconds on fox news. That is a failure of content. That means they are not journalists. That simple. You cannot do that. You cannot hold up the banner of journalism and do that. Let me just finish by making this personal. Thats what he does. Do with mying i people, my profession the only thing we do is truth. Some people do other things. They run businesses. They make profit. All we do is walk around with a pad looking for truth that is objective, verifiable, in context. That is what we do. Its collocated with your sources, but the core thing we do is simple and clear truth. Gang walk, me and my through war zones, for christs sake. I have done it. I have walked through innercity america, places of fear and crime, then chased by innercity bombers, and i have a whole gang of people who do that, and we are not the enemy. [applause] suskind let me give you a clue. Says something , it means its huge news. Play well. Change the system. [applause] narrator now, more from the unrig the system summit. This panel focuses on president ial elections and features panelists from three groups advocating for a National Popular vote to replace the Electoral College. Nonprofit group represent. U. S. Us hosted the panel. Its about an hour. Welcome, everyone. It is tremendous to see so many people in a room for what really is an important issue. This does not get enough attention. For the