Warlike situation, relationship changed but the dependency of one group on the other continued. It was either about money or influence by them is pretty much prevalent in different ways through different presidencies weve had throughout our history but the history i cover specifically since Teddy Roosevelt administration until today. Host is there a reason you picked that starting point . Guest yes. First of all it was only so much time i had an life basically to do a couple of centuries versus one but really what happened was as we know there was a crisis, a crash, black tuesday 1929. Not want to start the book but when i realized when i researched that crash was a couple of the bankers that were most connected to the crash and most concerned about it including bankers from the morgan bank bank which we now s j. P. Morgan chase, if you trace them back, traced back to j. P. Morgan and j. P. Morgan was one of the league bankers in the country from 1890. There was this through line of in
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Will have a conversation as candidly as possible. I am running for president for a simple reason, the corporations have bought democracy. If we dont return the government of, by, and for the people, we will not get any of the things we want. For the last 10 years, i have organized coalitions of ordinary american citizens to take on and and we have been winning. That is what i believe has to happen. Let me give you a little background on who i am and who my family is. My mom is from minnesota. She ended up teaching in Public Schools in new york. And in the brooklyn houses of detention. My father was the first generation in his family to go to college. He was a lawyer. He stopped his law practice to go into world war ii. He ended up going after the nazis and prosecuting the nazis. At nuremberg. [applause] by the way, as long as we are in iowa, i will point out my mothers brother was a professor at the university of iowa for 50 rs, and mike and betsy aunt betsy is 99 years old and still i
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The committee will now come to order. Before we start, we have two witness panels. Senator brown and i will give our opening remarks and then we will hear from Senators Gardner and merkley. Once the senators have finished their statements, we will proceed with our second panel of witnesses. Today, we will hear from witnesses about the challenges that state sanctioned businesses havee cannabis business when attempting to access mainstream Financial Services. Marijuana or cannabis is currently considered a schedule one drug. Being categorized as a schedule one drug means that distribution, sale, of marijuana or marijuanadrug products is illegal under federal law, and any proceeds from cannabisrelated activities remain subject to u. S. Andnt laundering laws, such as the antilaundering control act. In the last several years, many states have used referendums that have legalized the marijuana and some form, whether recreational or medical use. Currently, there are 11 states, plus the distri