Rich and poor the the class differences incredible 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 be. A cabinet full of millionaires a situation where some of them have been accused of misusing their offices in terms of the lavishness of those offices so on and so forth. To trump state a promise to drain the swamp if you will i dont think you drained it i think you moved it into the white house so they didnt drain a swamp and is moved to dinner. I think every politician has probably abuse their offers. Why dont we totally drain the swamp right away playing up the field altogether. Why are we the people more actively involved. Dont trust major contributions so far has been completely devalued the idea of Regulatory Oversight and so you know. 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 that are jumps. Hundreds of thousands 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 theyve 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 answered your question but the reason i ask is because earlier you passed out a handout that 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 find the same size in the same logo. You know the pain promised after the president that out to quote do a big number on the dot frank act oh here is the plan that has succeeded in persuading the house of representatives to approve the biggest rollback of banking ruth frank. To 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 BankingCenter Ground which did not have a cascade effect and i helped write the right and i 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 and youre in some instances having difficulty lending schmall 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 face of so many other regional stadium banks now sarah 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 sitting group along with some of these Community Bankers and other big trade associations really hit the hill they had a lot of lobbyist working on their you have it work and so you do you think that the banking lobby and their Campaign Donations had any influence on the 2000 a fiasco that the bank said no no role in that debate you asked me that question 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 it will along with the Money Center Banks were thrilled with this its the Community Banks that like yes i did support that community. Bill and i think when people mess with this service and what things are that makes it really hard to write 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 have influence over this bill that they have too much influence here on capitol hill absolutely i think the bank will. Be 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 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 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 contract 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 fundraiser for you and my law firm on k. Street absolutely at 500 dollars a head 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 countervailing forces the counter baling 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 oprahs and hatred in b. N. Resent we is concern for compassion and the specially a concern for the moles bother of. The poor and the weak. And the history democracy is like the history of the blues. Because the blues is about catastrophe overwhelming catastrophe that seems to suffocate the great efforts. Im 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 breakthrough good morning hardy cure it is against. Our will but its also one in which you recognize no im so surprised when you have breakthrough the breakthroughs are 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 both wonderful and terrible. Aspirational and visionary on the one hand. And all present. 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 are criminal. 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. They do all that they tend to cultivate the divisions all that they can. The demick no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. As americans we dont come with the we do a back seat the whole world needs to be. People. Judging. Comedy classes please respect my time so we can do better we should. Everyone is contributing each in our own way but we also know that this crisis not go on forever the challenge is great the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. This. In the early ninetys. A psychologist just proposed to the west but the incentive to social experiment. Paedophiles and neglected boys experiment was a. Its. Good. That sex with older men would help with the boys socialization over 30 years many children were paedophiles to raise. The. Boardrooms or she didnt understand for the person were going to go through. This. Is the regulator work that we started 1st ours was roebuck. And his brother was the producer. My nephew had got killed and were going to video youll see to stand in front of what we do make shift sheets rest in peace his name and all that is. And then 7 days later my cousin who i was close with. He was shot dead in front of his kids he was walking into his house somebody walked up and he had his daughter girl. In the face of them said and proceed to shoot. One of her. Period to 3 of her head its like you know our family is a good family man and you should come to. And its just like that reality im so tired of best cycle that we see in the 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 in life is just to give market a better life to my. President we have to understand this because of course were talking about capitalism more production you know is talking about. Realities because a profit maximisation is one that it lead to concerned about getting asses to low wage markets were 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 cabalist the 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 own to indecent owing to communities and families. Out 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 cam to get d. s White Supremacy forces capitalist forces pager arkell force is almost checkmate. Precious brothers and sisters. These are not accidental bits and pieces in different places in all things 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 defeat their right. As the only 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. Of business. The world. Is a business must be. Of the. Right. Weve lost the ability to think. Images on screens are ubiquitous. The truth is. Every town in america certainly illegal immigration is 100 percent about voting 24 hours a day the democratic push russia narrative collusion narrative. We are bombarded with images. And images are confused with no. Clothes no water expect 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 ill be totally honest with you even if its not united were unstoppable so i dont work. And 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 anymore. Dylan great to meet you good to see you yeah really great to meet you need a great owner well known as mine no. Question 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 do you conceive of every day people 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 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 theyre then created to 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 the walls. 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 it 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 theres. Pressure there. Yes were all there set up kind of. So wheres your responder and then date i help everybody here dont quote whatever i buy. Ok were. Not there to. Back up. Right now kind of tell me i have to be here and help the people here 1st. When i went on that then ill do that i put other people 1st. And 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 all 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 woven and this is the enormous flaw in the Corporate Star judgement 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. This. Vasily grossmans great novel lesson for she. Writes about the evils of both communism and fascism the evils of idiology east and 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 in stalingrad and went all the way to believe. I am he said that the power of the human kindness means that the bit is not humankind that is anchored in the face of evil. But evil that is impotent in the face of humankind i am because it is never able to crush that small kernel of class the but i think thats right i am not i i i think that. We probably only save the world one person at a time slowed down so 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. The are. There are people who are made her. Father larry. Bird. Do you how do you do you you. Know now do you. Do you know how. Serious imax guys are Stacy Herbert you know in a month in which we were meant to have the 2 Party Conventions officially baumann a doll child for the republican and joe biden for the democrats the 10 demick in the election and even more chaos than usual so joining us is greg palast a journalist author of many books including his latest out now skyrocketing up all the bestseller lists its called how true stole 2020. 1 to. The moment last campaign asked for the last 70 and seeing and on the race for the rats. Branch and schuster. Leachate mom. You know you care so said im not going much to you mama its just that. The u. S. Economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. You can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the way of opportunity the reality of those who were not financially equality and the lack of Affordable Housing for a living minimum wage gave many people no choice. Thats been a problem with the city will always turn up at every turn and told me stay away ive always. Considered that there is no answer because yes the records. The most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become invisible cops. Arrive breaks out between the u. N. Batteries softer brussels threaten sanctions over the countrys heavy handed response to the protests over the disputed election prompting minsk to say will sever all ties with the bloc also to come the sad that your mistakes were very apologizes after failing to tell 900 people that they had coronavirus batters countries across europe see infections spike and u. K. Holiday makers in lefty rushing home after france is added to britains quarantine list but with only short notice it does spark chaos for travelers. Weve paid. Over the facilities completely to both calls the soonest. The gateway there was