thank you the committee on the judiciary subcommittee, will come to order, that objection share, we, i m authorized to the record the races of the subcommittee time to welcome everyone to today s hearing, potential responses by, congress i will now recognize myself for an opening statement. can you hear me? i m not going to talk that loud. i will try to talk closer to the microphone, thank you. this year marks the tenth anniversary of the supreme court s deeply troubling decision in citizens united versus federal election commission. this is good as i m going to do. that decision is resulted in the croatian of our democracy, giving disproportion a way to might interested drowning out the voices of ordinary american, today s hearing will examine the extent to this corruption explore was ways to repair the damage that the flood of darkening to our political system as broad as a result of that decision. citizens united supreme court struck down as unconstitutional ban on cor
thank you the committee on the judiciary subcommittee, will come to order, that objection share, we, i m authorized to the record the races of the subcommittee time to welcome everyone to today s hearing, potential responses by, congress i will now recognize myself for an opening statement. can you hear me? i m not going to talk that loud. i will try to talk closer to the microphone, thank you. this year marks the tenth anniversary of the supreme court s deeply troubling decision in citizens united versus federal election commission. this is good as i m going to do. that decision is resulted in the croatian of our democracy, giving disproportion a way to might interested drowning out the voices of ordinary american, today s hearing will examine the extent to this corruption explore was ways to repair the damage that the flood of darkening to our political system as broad as a result of that decision. citizens united supreme court struck down as unconstitutional ban on co
Government. Slate magazine hosted the event. Leon hey everybody. [applause] leon hi everybody, thank you for being here. Can everybody hear me . Great. Here, a week and a half after the show ended. Season one ended. , or it could slate have even guessed that we would be talking about season one, and that we are now planning season two of slow burn. Thank you again to the slate plus members who are here. It is really a dream to be here in the watergate hotel. We have a great show tonight, it is our first live show. We have this fantastic lineup of guests. Introduce them without clearing my throat anymore. Elizabeth drew to my left. [applause] elizabeth covered the water gate scandal for the new yorker. Her coverage was collected in the book washington journal. Dickight is did cap it cavett. [applause] etthosted the dick cav show. He introduced interviewed a number of key figures in the watergate scandal. Here we have susan glasser. [applause] susan is the chief International Affairs col
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