welcome back to our broadcast tonight. i want to bring into the conversation this evening, congressman don buyer, a democrat that represents northern virginia, including the park in alexandria where the shooting took place. congressman, thank you for staying up with us and coming on tonight. absolutely. i m curious how it felt to be the member of congress on whose home turf this happened today in this day where we saw this burst of bipartisanship, almost the most we ve seen since 9/11. i have to ask the cliched question, why does it take this to see the reaching across the aisle that we saw today? you know, brian, i think actually there s a lot more reaching across the aisle than people realize. but today really brought it out because you saw an awful lot of democrats sitting with republicans and vice versa and
very different idea about how much should we respect authority of the police, you know, how much should we what do we real believe about this stuff. one thing that social media can do is by the time people come out to the space there s already been a certain amount of agreement or a certain. a organize a sense that they have already come together around a shared purpose, you know, and i feel with occupy wall street, you know, that tumbler about we re the 99% helped to do that, and all the ideas about who the 99% is and what the 99% want, people come out and there s there s already a sense of, you know, we have a shared set of grievances. we have a shared set of action. yeah. that s an incredible point, too, in terms of i would imagine it would it certainly gives you hope that physical protests are less likely to become violent. how do you compare i ll lead this as a last question, the cliched question. compare whur seeing in the protest sense compared to what we ve seen in
when i m forced to choose between two piles of horse manure and one pile is slightly smaller it s hard for me to be enthusiastic between the piece of horse manure i was forced to choose. wow. what a segue for you. it s the horse picture in the papers got me thinking about horse manure. go ahead. i m glad i m not wearing a bowtie and not wearing a sweater vest. it s a full sweater. it s freezing down here. you ll get your moment in the sun, too. i think imogen is right in response to your question. in order for the status quo to change and for all those things that you want to have happen happen, you re going to need candidates in the race on both in the republican party and the democratic party who are going to come to the table with concrete ideas and with the backing and with the backing of voters to come to washington and do all those things that need to be done, and it s not going to be solved, you know,
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out of politics and time to make corporations people with constitutional rights. the legislature is about to consider in their 30-day session starting in a week this very question of whether to pass a resolution calling on congress to enact pass a constitutional amendment and sent to the states for the enactment. but the montana supreme court ruling is really the biggest new development on this because here you have out of a red state a five-justice majority make clear that they are not going to let their century-old ban on corporate money be every overturned. they are going to defend it and they are going to uphold it, as they did last friday, and i think that s a significant new development that is going to force the u.s. supreme court potentially to take this up question yet again you say potentially. what s the variability in the potentiality? how do you increase the probability that the montana ruling does go to the supreme court? of course, those who lost, the corporate int