in the background with is going to come into real focus here. we are ten days away from a government shutdown. they have to raise the debt limit by the middle of october. we are not going to help you. all right, anna palmer, thank you very your reporting. let s bring in investigative reporter at the new york times, jessie trucker, his latest reporting on how accountable giants craft favorable tax rules from inside the government. and this is a really interesting question which i want to hear the answer to. also, with us, professor dorothy brown. her latest book entitled the whiteness of wealth, how we can talk about the parallel between
these two stories first. jessie, take us through your reporting here. basically what we found is that the big four accounting firms have almost an unofficial program of sorts to embed their lawyers in the treasury department where they work on what s quite favorable to their clients. what we found is they go into the government as associates and they return to their old firms and get promoted to partner where they get more pay raises. this process to some degree lawyers of the private sector having a key role of the treasure department since the beginning of time. this program is becoming institutionalized in the last 20 years or so in part of the big