Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question how bad are the problems of big money and powerful corporations in american politics and are they eroding people stressed in elections their elected leaders and even democracy itself lets get to the bottom line. In the last president ial election cycle more than 2000000000. 00 was raised and spent by the top 2 candidates donald trump and Hillary Clinton this time around we have some fabulously wealthy candidates mayor Michael Bloomberg tom stier and even donald trump but were still waiting for proof and its never released tax forms while other candidates pride themselves on not accepting any big money with the top one percent of this country getting even richer and the poor getting poorer and the middle collapsing out of the middle class and concentration of money in fewer and fewer hands what is happening to the solvency of we the people fortunately we have some folks with us today who have the answers matt stoler is the Research Director of
Im sorry so much going to thank you for joining us a long list of conflicts and uncertainty over the wests role in the world those are the top issues at the Munich Security Conference that is kicking off this hour a World Leaders top Security Experts diplomats are all now gathering for the central meeting in southern germany on everyones mind the big global issues the war in syria where a government offensive and it live has triggered a full blown humanitarian crisis another issue concerns over the shrinking influence of the west in shaping Global Security it is even spawned a new term west lists next. And we have our chief Political Editor michelle you look at the Munich Security Conference for us where she is watching in on everything thats happening there for us jaime said and i want to ask you about that term west listener what are people there saying about this. Well many feel that it is kind of appropriate and thats exactly what the security conference always aims to do is kind o
Union stepped up their battle against proposed Pension Reforms its not the longest industrial action that france a seen in decades. Im sorry so misconducts good to have you with us u. S. Officials say they believe that iran likely shot down the Ukraine International Airlines Plane that crashed on wednesday now the plane was on its way from the iranian capital tehran to the ukrainian capital kiev unnamed u. S. Officials have told American Media that Iranian Air Defense systems might have accidentally shot down the airliner killing all 176 passengers and crew iran says the crew did not put out a distress call but did try to turn back before the plane went down and ukraine is such a team of investigators to join the search for answers. Now a short while ago u. S. President trump had this to say i have my suspicions it was very i dont want to say that because other people have those suspicions also and. Its a tragic thing when i see that its a tragic thing. But somebody could have made a m
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