For fighting for what matters. This is cnn its time to, break. Down the, big stories with some smart people today, were asking us antiwar demonstrations spread across the country. Can President Biden continued to have it both way, saying he understands why protesters are upset while backing israels Gaza Offensive then sucking up the oxygen is all the attention Donald Trumps trial is getting all ready. A win for the former president. And stop the skeptic. The new posh to make all travelers wait in line at Airport Security the panelists here ready to go . So sit back, relax and lets talk about up first, the protests of our gaza have ignited a firestorm on College Campuses the growing demonstrations, but coming a political issue drawn condemnation from Speaker Mike Johnson and a muted response from President Biden all over the us. Propalestinian protests on College Campuses leading to hundreds of arrests at the university of texas, State Troopers use wyatt here to break up demonstration w
nonhispanics. when you look at criminal justice issues, which we ve done a lot of work here as well, significant disparities. so what i will do is what i ve done in other areas, i will show up, i will listen more than i talk and i will take action recognizing that there is significant both historical and contemporary injustices that have led many of our communities and communities of color they have held them back. let s talk about your core issue. you open your op-ed by saying two obstacles stand in the way of america being the land of the free, the divisive presidency of the droufr and corrupting influence of big money and politics. what would you want to do about that, the latter issue, the big money issue? you bet. i was attorney general when the citizens united came up. i think i ve done more to fight the corrupting influences of dark money than anyone else in this field. you look at trump tax cuts, senator graham said we have to do this to make our donors happy. we talk about
montanans i think how i ll break through the way eye i ve been successful in montana the only one in the field that actually won in a state where trump won. he was on the ballot in 2016. he took montana by 20. i won by 4. i ve been able to bridge divides and get meaningful progressive things done not only just health care but freezing college tuition, getting dark money out of our elections. i think i ve done more for kind of the original sin, and that s addressing the corrupting influences of outside spending in our elections and anybody in the field. so i think i offer something unique even in this big field. so let me ask you because you point out obviously something that stands out about you which is that in 2016 the president won montana by 20 points you won repeeks as the democrat being governor in the same year. so i m curious, governor, what do you have in common with trump that you both were successful in this same state at the same time? well, i don t know that we
that s obviously progress, but governments are increasingly controlling online spaces and the easy optimism about a free and open internet that marks its inception feels a bit misplaced. according to an october report from freedom house, 2018 marked the eighth consecutive year in which internet freedom declined worldwide. now there s been one big exception to the idea of a free internet from the start, china. there the internet always has been a world garden. the 800 million users are protected from the corrupting influences of google, facebook, the new york times. the authorities in china shut down the internet in the fractious western region of shin jung as far back as 2009 for almost a year. as more people come online all over the world, more countries are using the tools from china s playbook. these shutdowns aren t happening
is you d still end up with at least some of these kinds of problems. that is a thousand percent right. it s the system, stupid. i mean, obviously, governor christie went beyond what the system, the corrupting influences of the system. yep. i think that the evidence is showing that, in terms of how he disseminated funding and all these different things that have come out over the course of the past few weeks. but at the same time, you re absolutely right. because i say i am a democrat. but i will say this all day. if you live in a local community where your murder rate is up and your graduation rates are down, you need to vote them out, even if they are democrats. because i do think that the process, the system under which we function is very much a corrupting system, because it s driven by money and how much money people contribute to your campaign. and if you look overwhelmingly at the numbers, the more money you raise, the greater your likelihood of getting elected is. so, ob