A promise to drain the swamp if you will i dont think you drained it i think you moved it into the white house for it in grain a swamp it is moved to dinner. I think every politician has probably abused their office. Why dont we totally drain the swamp right away playing up the free altogether. Why are we the people more actively involved. Dont trust major contributions of 4 has been completely devalued the idea of regulatory oversight. Of betsy the vast department of education or scott pruitt. And these people who are essentially trying to dismantle government oversight from within the fears regulators the people out of jobs. By the hundreds of thousands and then you add to it smudges live gambits like the tax cut at this recent Bank Lobbyist impartial repeal of the dot frank act they have been on their wish list for ages the stuff of thousands tens of thousands of lobbyist essentially are writing the legislation every once in a while a bill will be submitted and the the lobbying firms name will be on it because the congressman messed up you know by not taking it off my question represented god well somewhat mirrors would represent money im just curious does it have does the legislation have some connection to alec this bill didnt come to me from alec in answer to your question but the reason i ask is because earlier you passed out a handout it says got walt at the top and it says Health Care Compact and theres a logo right in the middle of that page and i went to the elec website and there is exactly the same the same fun the same size in the same logo. On t. V. You know the pain promised after the president that out to quote do a big number on the dot frank act so he is the financial side to lobbying has succeeded in persuading the house of representatives to approve the biggest rollback of banking rules since dont frank. The Bank Lobbyists came to capitol hill and pressured lawmakers to weaken their safeguards to rollback those regulations although it was mostly republicans who voted for this measure democrats who are some of the biggest recipients of bank money also voted with republicans to roll back the signature accomplishment of the Obama Administration. Made him 2nd when i was a leaf on a reporter with me and i sat. My names leaf on. Why is Congress Moving to remove some of those dodd frank protections. Designed to prevent another crisis those tensions were actually extended into the Community BankingCenter Ground which did not help a cascade effect i helped write write and ive defended it for 9 years and like a lot of people i think that there were areas in which dodd frank said a little heavy on our smaller institutions to ensure that some is this is having difficulty lending making small loans to Small Businesses so i know you have a history in the Banking Sector work to Goldman Sachs do you think that any influence on your decision about this why this was not a wall street bill this was a bill about providing relief to smaller communities to suntrust in space and so many other regional stadium banks now sara was small right no no they dont as installed were 10 years after the financial crisis but congress has moved to repeal some of these big you voted with republicans softer bill as i write i voted to support the Community Banks the bill was entirely about you citigroup along with some of these Community Bankers and other bank trade associations really hit the hill had a lot of lobbyist working on this you have a deal with the city do you think that the banking lobby and their Campaign Donations had any influence over 2000 a fiasco that the bank said no no role in that debate you asked me where do they have any influence over the vote. And banking lobby have any influence on this vote actually go to see office and can take. A lot of the Big Money Center banks were thrilled with this its the Community Banks that like. Yes i did support the Community Bank bill and i think when people mention this to others and what things are that makes it really hard all right one last question you should know regional banks are doing very well thank you. Are you concerned that the banking lobby Bank Lobbyists had influence over this bill that they have too much influence here on capitol hill absolutely i think the bank on the gun lobby the pharma lobby all have too much influence here in congress and this bill to. 152500 1000000 in the kinds of things j. P. Morgan so you think the kinds of things that talking about are not small banks so i dont know that anybody with a straight face can say this is an answer to that question this is a. Small banks in order to give big banks really great and necessary regulation thank you so much take care. In response to obamas one effort to clean up influence peddling in washington lobbyist simply deregistered became more secretive thousands of lobbyist said were not even going to comply with the Registration System and were going to move into the shadows and continue to influence government but without disclosing what were doing on paper there are Something Like 9000 or 10000 registered lobbyist but in reality that the number is closer 2100000. On paper lobbyist spend about 3000000000 or so every year influencing the federal government but in reality that number is closer to 9 or 10000000000. You served in the Bush Administration now. And general company thats received a lot of military contracts what do you how do you feel about this issue of senior military officials government officials going to a large firms that receive Major Military contracts. As executive Vice President of a major defense firm thats received billions of dollars in defense contracts. To interface with the pentagon have you spoken to either Obama Administration officials or trouble ministration officials on contracting issues. Excuse me Fran Townsend here with just a quick moment i dont want to take too much of your time. Shake and i host a welcome to washington fundraisers for you my law firm on k. Street. Absolutely at 500. 00 and you could pick up 2025 grand get started in. The history of the species very much a history of domination exploitation no pressure in the hatred contempt and then that countervailing forces the count of veiling voices against domination against each against and so youve got this struggle going on but thats what democracy is all about how do you interrupt the dominance cycles of domination oprahs and hatred in b. N. Resent we is concern for others compassion and especially a concern for the moles. The poor and the weak. 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Terrifying its core to the problem so is the sexism which we dont talk about enough they are essentially promising to for store hierarchy in which people know their place which men get their place this is what we refer to as patriarchy this is a society that runs around the sort of structure of a family where the man is the head of the family except the man is the head of society jam to get d. s White Supremacy forces capitalist forces patriarchal forces a most checkmate. Precious brothers and sisters. Were not accidental bits and pieces in different places. Together in a very Old Fashioned way. Its all really about taking us back. To essentially a pre democratic period. Was all really about a battle that the losers after 900. 00 never except. For trade as a defeat for their rights as the own as the most powerful people. So bit by bit they put it back together again. And thats why you know in 1905 i felt i had to say things like were in the midst of a coup detat in slow motion. 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But in a post Literate Society the books are still there but nobody picks them up anymore. Brother bill great to meet you good to see the really great to meet you in the great owner now known as mine no. Question which american. But without tool of magination vision and courage shattering the indifference and shattering the callousness and thats the challenge i discerned fight back in the attacks but also how did you conceive of every day people being actually sees with the fire for a better world alternative but i think they are if they can figure out how to do it if they can feel that they are involved that its about then and i think the great disaster of the last. 30 years is that a large part of. 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Theyre part of a civilization theyre part of a of a community theyre part of something which understands without knowing. Their reminder to me of really how civilizations work were all part of something just deeply deeply injured and this is the enormous flaw in the corporatist argument that you can sort of slice everybody up into their Interest Groups and then get somebody with whose economy you know miscellany and trump like figure who uses emotion to hold it all together and isnt actually the way Society Works and all. Soon fosli grossmans great novel once and she. Writes about the evils of both communism and fascism the evils of idiology still seek to exterminate whole numbers of opponents people whether theyre condemned by because of class or race. And in the novel he talks about the power of humankind switch he witnessed as a war correspondent he was in stone when. All the way to berlin. And he said that the power of the human kindness me us that. It is not humankind that has entered it in the face of evil. But evil that is impotent in the face of humankind. Because it is never able to crush that small kernel of class. And i think thats right. I think that. We probably only save the world one person at a time small amounts of years ago. That those small unheralded acts of compassion. Are what keep us human and ultimately are the seeds by which we can rise up again. I am a want a rally i want. A ladder larry. Larry. King we were. All a little. Prayer our. We go to work you straight home. Industry comes to life in los angeles every night. Dozens of women sells their bodies on the street many of them underage. Los Angeles Police reveal a taste of their daily challenge if youre going to exploit our child here in los angeles are there were going to come out you see officers going undercover as 6 workers and customers to fight the 6 trade. Hedley attend the. U. S. City pleading with the president for a cease fire. 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