once in five years come down from his private island to hold a single public town hall. he is a caricature of washington corruption, and i'm running because we face a crisis of political corruption in this country. when nine out of ten americans support universal background checks for firearms purchases, but congress refuses to act because they're bought by the nra, that's corruption. when the federal government is silencing its own scientists, its own environmental scientists because their findings threaten the profitability of the fossil fuel industry, that's corruption. as power becomes concentrated in fewer and fewer hands and wealth becomes concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and those wealthy and powerful groups can spend limitless amounts in secret on a vicious political propaganda to manipulate elections, that's corruption. i've spent the last six years as an investigative journalist. i lead a team that's taken on powerful corporations, isis war