The reason Donald Trumps in there is because hes a celebrity or he did this or he did that he is in there because he is not one of them and we are so frustrated. We had to vote him in if donald trump goes away well find another trump believe me well find another one the people dreamed this couch the people built this cut and its the people who are making America Great again. The clintons and the obamas all all they talked about families and children and justice and so on maintained these rights for corporations promoted the right of their companies to do whatever they want to around the world in a strange way it was those who might oppose trant right now who set the stage for him to be elected it was the very policies that would out north america i mean we created huge pockets of poverty weve never had in 100 years the same difference between rich and poor the the class differences in credit. Well they set the stage for a savior obama was supposed to be that savior and he wasnt and what happens after a savior fails you you look to something very different they set the table in my opinion for donald Trump Success do you find this contradictory in any way to the of a cabinet full of millionaires a situation where some of them have been accused of misusing their offices in terms of the use of lavishness of those offices so on and so forth. To trump state a promise to drain the swamp if you will i dont think he drained it i think he moved it into the white house. So they didnt drain the swamp and just moved to dinner. I think every politician is probably abuse there are. Why dont we totally drain the swamp. Why are we the people more actively involved. Dont trust major contributions so far has been completely devalued the idea of regulatory oversight. Department of education or scott pruitt. And these people who are essentially trying to dismantle government oversight from within the e. P. A. Is regulators people. And then you add to its much a slate of gambits like the tax cut like this recent Bank Lobbyist impartial repeal of the dot frank act theyve been on their wish list for ages the stuff 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 heres what represent me 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 that says god at the top and it says Health Care Compact and theres a local right in the middle of that page and i went to the elec website and there is exactly the same the same file the same size in the same logo. Pane promised after the president that out to quote do a big number on the dot frank act oh he is the Financial Sector lobbying has succeeded in persuading the house of representatives. To prove the biggest rollback of banking rules instilled frank. In 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 jim a 2nd when i was a leaf on our corner with the intercept. Hi my name is leaf on. Why is Congress Moving to remove some of those dodd frank protections was designed to prevent another crisis those tensions were actually extended into the Community Banking Center Ground which did not have a cascade effect and i hope. And ive defended it for 9 years and like a lot of people i think that there were areas in which Dodd Frank Zappa little heavy on our smaller institutions to ensure that some 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 what this is not a wall street bill this was a bill about providing relief to smaller communities to suntrust in face of 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 banks trade associations really hit the hill they had a lot of lobbyist working on their you have a deal with the city and do you think that the banking lobby and their Campaign Donations had any influence of the 2000 a fiasco that the bank said no no right. Imagine you ask me what do they have any influence over the vote. Banking lobby have any influence on this vote go to see office and takes. 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 mess with this service and what things are that makes it really hard all right one last question you said the regional banks are doing very well thank you all right. 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 banks the gun lobby the pharma lobby all have too much influence here in congress this bill 252500 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. Couching small banks in order to give big banks relief from these write necessary regulations here 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 numbers 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 Better see if 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 for vets receive billions of dollars in defense contracts. To interface with the pentagon have you spoken to either Obama Administration officials or travel ministration officials on contracting issues. Excuse me Fran Townsend give it 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 dollars and you can 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 the kalama of veiling forces the count of mailing voices against domination against a tree 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 oprah ssion hatred in the end resent we is concern for compassion and the specially concern for the most vulnerable. Poor and the the weak. And the history democracy is like the history of the blues. The blues is about catastrophe overwhelming catastrophe that seems to suffocate the great efforts. Of improvement. And yet one steel keeps keeping one steel tries to tell the truth one steel tries to fight for justice looks like you dont make a break do good morning hardy here it is again. I was but its also one in which you recognize no im some surprise so when you have break through the breaks it was a real and so it isnt democracy. One step forward 2 steps back 3 steps forward 2 steps back thats the history of who we are as a species we both wonderful and terrible at the same time. Aspirational and visionary on the one hand. And no president. In the blues understand you cant you check both polls at same time and always preserve not your optimism preserve your hope your prisoner of hope the corporate elites they want to divide. They want to divide and conquer it is a strategy as old as the eclipse who emerged from the cave in the history of speech. Some cities in california los angeles and San Francisco in particular but their biggest threat. Black males who are involved in this crime and violence to keep the political commentary to yourself or as someone once said shut up and variable. Will be right back. Thats the fundamental threat and they do all that they can to cultivate divisions all that they can. Ambani and by north its so many people because they copied him hes sure that even such a bad copy is sending. Im not guilty anybody until god im here to find the next guy. Who looked up live again in the you being done the infidel to feed the dog she went on panty of. The deflection move for the c. E. O. She has the deflection board her to say. That is going to be better than i got up the brilliance of her. Time he and others are going to going to hear a lot about the. Fact that you can thank god you get nothing like a. Long long while and you dont want to bottom theres a playlist which i dont think a lot older. Than one person and later knee 100 gandhi a new normal gandhi run the place they are going to ignore you then go to mock you then they will join you. And. I think we need to kind of just get back to realizing that modern medicine as if to some great things but actually when it comes to what has increased our Life Expectancy more than anything else in the last 5 you know the last sort of hundreds of years most of these be Public Health you know modern medicine can be attributes to be maybe 3 in office 5 years. Well i think. In the last century. And something that people find quite surprising quite shocking. Is the regulator work that we started 1st ours was roebuck. And his brother was the producer. My nephew had killed and were going to video. Stand in front of what we do make shift sheets rest in peace and his name and all that is. Being discussed. And then 7 days later my cousin who i was close with more like a brother he was shot down in front of his kids he was walking into his house somebody walked up and he had his daughter whos girl. In the face of them said and proceeded to shooting. One of her. Its like you know our family was a good family when you should come to your environment. And its just like that reality im so tired of best cycle that we see in a city this happens you know i mean we had to eat some nights so i had to go do what i had to do you know maybe in the streets and ran the streets for. You know and im just blessed that im able to be here and be a parent now i guess my whole focus on life is just to give market a better life to my. President we have to understand its because of course were talking about capitalism more production euro is talking about. Realities because a profit maximisation is one that it lead to concerned about getting asses to low wage markets. That has devastated so many poor working people of all colors places like camden where you have precious Black Brothers and sisters youve got White Supremacy shot through this is the same capitalist process. And of course as historically the case slave holding capitalism for over 200 years jim crow capitalism former 90 years and the jim crow jr had to do with what not just devastating industrial working class as a do the escalation of mass incarceration only to to cripple the educational system only to indecent owing to communities and families. Out there racism is. 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 almost checkmate. Precious brothers and sisters. Were not accidental bits and pieces in different places and all think together in a very Old Fashioned way. Its all really about taking us back. To essentially a pre democratic period. It was all really about a battle that the losers after 900 never accept. And portrayed as a defeat of their right 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. The world is a. College of corporations. Inexorably determined by the. Immutable laws of business. The world. Is a business mr b. Has been since man crawled out of the. Chase. Weve lost the ability to think. Images on screens are ubiquitous. The truth is they want to ban every gun in america certainly illegal immigration is 100 percent about 24 hours a day the democratic push brusha narrative collusion narrative narrative we are bombarded with images. And those images are confused with no. Clothes no water that turned up. We confuse how we are made to feel with. The game we cant success thats what its all about success trump stakes are by far the best tasting most flavorful beef youve ever had because one america is United America is totally unstoppable although be totally honest with you even if its not united were unstoppable. In understanding how systems of power work which you can only grasp. By investing yourself in a print based culture reading John Ralston Saul reading noam chomsky. But in a post Literate Society the books are still there but nobody picks them up any more. Oh brother bill great to meet you good to see you yeah really great to meet you need a great owner now known as mine own. Course in which american. But without the rule of magination vision and courage shattering the indifference and shattering the callousness and thats the challenge i discern 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 theyre involved that its about them and i think the great disaster of the last. 30 years is that a large part of. The liberal elite has basically given in to a large part of the themes of being basically anti democratic elite and so they they they there then created a discourse a top down discourse which excluded people is it which really made those people who are the who are the guarantors of democracy the holder of the citizen made them feel excluded and once they feel excluded they start getting mad and they get mad or theres a new day coming those signs of hope a Younger Generation concerned about not just psychological crisis the planet concern the bugs bust the walls to. How do you make it a knowledge for us in though its unpredictable in Indian History is a mystery just like love in life you just dont know we none of us have control you know when the the ruling classes think that there might be but they did not almighty theyre going to fall sooner or later we dont know what form we just hope isnt neofascist we hope that it doesnt return to the most barbaric and beast. Of aspects of of our condition the human condition thats inside of all of us thats inside the hatred and the gangsta like proclivities inside every human being. And i think their. Presence there. You know its were almost there so it all kind of. Know what words were stronger and i think then date i help everybody here dont quote whatever i buy. Ok when i got. Up there to. Pick up. Right now kind of tell me i have to be here and help the people here. When i am done that then ill do that i put other people 1st. You know ive always been fascinated by them are modified. Strictly in august you see them heading south. And of course theyre going to head south across the United States to mexico where they are winter. And it takes about 3 generations to do the round trip. In fact known butterfly can be a god. There is no butterfly who knows how to do this who knows where to go. Theyre part of a civilization theyre part 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 Corporate Star judgment that you can sort of slice everybody up into their Interest Groups and then get somebody whos a kind of you know miscellany and trump like figure who uses emotion to hold it all together and isnt actually the way Society Works and all. I am. Soon vasily grossmans great novelist and film he. Writes about the evils of both communism and fascism the evils of idiology still seek to exterminate poll numbers of opponents people whether theyre condemned by because of class or race. And in the novel he talks about the power of human kindness which he witnessed as a war correspondent he was installing arad and went all the way to balance. The budget and he said that the power of that human kindness means that the budget is not humankind that is and that in the face of evil played by evil that is impotent in the face of humankind i am because it is never able to crush that small kernel of class i and i think thats right i am not i i i think that. We probably only save the world one person at a time as well as a lot of years over. That those small unheralded acts of compassion. Are what keep us human and ultimately are the seeds by which we can rise up against. The the a. Do you see how do you you. Also use it is the music to new york. If there was competition or free Market Competition in drugs in america the price would be low thats the beauty of free market capitalism the fact they dont have free market capitalism for drug prices in america shows you have an entrenched. Or monopoly and they galtons price gouging and hes right so you try to dismantle that but without that kind of preview for these drugs for these companies that however i dont see how theyre going to command the multiples they do on the stock market so hes hes got to thats the thing hes either going to take a 50 percent hit on the stock market or is going to lose a lot of people that drives. A dark industry comes to life in los angeles every night. Dozens of women sells their bodies on the streets many of them underage. Los Angeles Police reveal a taste of their daily challenge no if youre going to exploit for a child here in los angeles all they were going to come as you would see officers going undercover as 6 workers and customers to fight the 6 trades. Welcome to your exact of the night this is the show where americans in america covering American News are called foreign agents by the end of this segment youll know why. Why the 1st person to receive the electric chair in america was not a person it was an elephant named topsy but well get back to that a moment with 150000 americans killed by covert 19 in a u. S. Drone bomb being dropped overseas roughly every 12 minutes Donald Trumps Justice Department recently thought to themselves you know we need this country more killing there are enough murders going on because you know if youre going to go to hell anyway make it worth it swing for the fences drive cattle i give youre gonna cheat on your