Have no bricks and mortars. these are the trademark qualities of a political committee. what is the difference between what you are describing and money laundering? not a whole heck of a lot. joining me now the hosts. great to have you here. it s wonderful to be back. congratulations on your child. thank you. so give me the kind of conceit of the show. what were you trying to get to the bottom of? what was the story you were trying to tell? we wanted to get to the bottom of the swamp. the swum p existed long before donald trump. we wanted to understand how it came to be and whether or not it actually can be drained. so the first episode here is about dark money and the corrupting influence of money in
Country. they are spending tens of millions of dollars but they have no bricks and mortars. these are the trademark qualities of a political committee. what is the difference between what you are describing and money laundering? not a whole heck of a lot. joining me now the hosts. great to have you here. it s wonderful to be back. congratulations on your child. thank you. so give me the kind of conceit of the show. what were you trying to get to the bottom of? what was the story you were trying to tell? we wanted to get to the bottom of the swamp. the swum p existed long before donald trump. we wanted to understand how it came to be and whether or not it actually can be drained. so the first episode here is about dark money and the corrupting influence of money in our politics. what we do is we take a look at exactly what dark money is, and then we get out of washington and we go to arizona. we go to montana.
We pay more for prescription drugs. we can t even negotiate the prices because the corrupting influence of money in the system. getting rid of surprise medical billing and out of net work charges. that s the way i approach it. without trying to disrupt 180 million folks with employer sponsored care. we need to make it better and affordable. in 2016 you won reelection by 4%. at the same time president trump won montana by 20%. you have an appeal in a red state. will that roll over? i think it will. we need to be able to win back some of the places that we lost. the michigan and wisconsin. pennsylvania. in addition to being good everywhere else. you look at 44%-over americans wouldn t have $400 in their pocket. the last 40 years ore half of americans haven t had a pay
For bernie sanders. that another candidate is able to take that on themselves and find success. and so it speaks to, again, especially for a lot of democrats who very often talk about the corrupting influence of money and politics, it crafts a pathway for candidates to be able to sustain a substantial campaign without having to spend all their time calling big-money donors. talking to mj lee, who covers her for us at cnn, saying the average donation 28 bucks, and got to $19.1 billion. let let s talk joe biden. the former vice president apologizing for defending segregationists. we saw this after he clashed with kamala harris in the first debate. let me play biden apology and then harris reaction. was i wrong a few weeks ago to somehow give the impression to people that i was praising those men who i successfully opposed time and again? yes. i was. i regret it.
$7 billion allotted to cover 9/11 related illnesses has already been paid out. there s not enough money to cover all of the claims. lawmakers from both parties objecting to propose congressional cost-of-living increase come about when our senior hill, senior capitol hill producer chad caught up with alexandria ocasio-cortez, she said she wants the pay hike in order to prevent corrupting influence of dark many. members of congress, retail workers, everybody should get cost-of-living increases to accommodate for the economy and when we don t do that, it only increases the pressure on members to exploit. to make it on the back. shannon: lawmakers have not given themselves a raise to the 174,000 annual salary that they have now since 2009. we have been following the protest in hong kong, the islands last fight in china for days now.