to that kind of talk on the television about the top leadership in the world. presidency of the united states but you know it just shows how we ve got to have campaign finance reform. john mccain used to be for eliminating the corrupting influence of money in politics and now he s given wall street a bailout and he s taken more money from wall street than any other sitting senator. he s changed. he s not the maverick and the straight talker he once was and arizonans want new principled leadership in the senate. okay. i asked you about melania but congresswoman kirkpatrick, three weeks away. thank you so much. next, donald trump is not the only one getting some heat for the vulgar comments caught on tape. wait until you hear what his son donald, jr., told some shock jock radio hosts.
$100,000 ad in new hampshire and iowa right now. this is what our political system has turned into. larry lessig is the only presidential candidate with the will and the way to fix it. well, that candidate, lawrence lessig joins me now. where did you pick on marco rubio and not every other candidate? we open up with marco rubio because donald trump has opened this issue in the republican party, and what we re trying to do is to grab the focus around the way the corrupting influence of money makes government impossible in america today, because that s the premise for everything else that follows in this campaign. your campaign, you ve said, you you re a one-issue candidate. it s campaign finance reform. so what does it look like under the lessig government? no other issue that anybody s
released and we re told everyone on board is safe. we re now learning the faa will investigate this incident. gio benitez, abc news, new york. what should not have been a safe landing was that gyrocopter on the west lawn of the u.s. capitol last week according to congressman jason chaffetz. in fact he says the 60-year-old mailman, doug hughes should have been shot down out of the sky for flying his personal aircraft over the washington, d.c. no-fly zone. he is lucky to be alive because he should have been blown out of the air and very well could have been. if it was up to me, i would have taken care of the problem. hughes is now under house arrest back home in florida and faces a potential three-year prison sentence for operating an unregistered aircraft and violating national air space. he says he intended to send a message to congress about the corrupting influence of money in politics.
i spent lots and lots of time with doug and got the sense that this was a man who wouldn t hurt a soul. he had a point to make about campaign finance reform and it s interesting it s been side tracked media ethics question and a security question. this was a guy who did exactly to a tee what he planned. he didn t hurt anybody. he got the media s attention. he sent a message, you know, however short lived it was that i m doing this because we ve got corruption in government because of money and campaigns. it s interesting. he said to you, ben, no sane person would do this. on the other hand, seems like a pretty smart guy to have planned this for years and to have known how to do this. yet, for a smart guy, he maybe perhaps have known that security concerns and that the story would become about campaign finance reform. just an interesting sort of tension in this story because he was trying to make the point of corrupting influence in politics and the moment he landed on the
on capitol hill. you can see on the gyrocopter the united states postal service. he s said to be a mailman in florida. unclear if he s still a mailman or not. he said he had letters to deliver speaking about campaign finance reform and the corrupting influence of money in washington. obviously, we ll learn more about him andize identity izehis identity will be confirmed in the hours to confirm. as the reporter said on twitter, he made it down safe. i can t believe he made it. if you re telling me brian, that this mailman gave somebody a heads up that he was taking off from this helicopter, do you know athena if capitol hill police or some other law enforcement were aware, waiting for this? do we know? it certainly does not seem as though anyone here was made aware ahead of time about this person s plans. we know that this is restricted air space. we know from my colleague rené marsh, who spoke with the faa,