long time? some politics does that i choose to see politics, funny, one of your producers of asking me this earlier, i choose to see politics as glass half full. i want to see the good innocence politics. i want to see politician and policy make ers do right by their constituents. there is always going to be that negative element and that negative element inevitably is going to be because of money. the money is what is wrong with the system and that is the biggest problem. a short-term fix could be full disclosure. cascade of sunshine? absolutely. just put it out there you want to spend 100 billion bucks and you want to influence legislation put, out there disclose it, let it be on websites an let your constituents decide whether you are a good person or a good corporation or a good whatever, trade association or labor union, for that matter but i don t think that is enough. i think that there should be, i think there should be elections financed by the american people or by sell
cable news years this show is basically like a 340-year-old dog now. but in all of the craziness we have covered over all of these years there is one thing that has happened in one american state which stands out to me above all others. and it stands out to me because i maintain that it really is the single most radical policy, the single most radical piece of legislation put into law by any state in the country in our modern american political history. even if you know nothing else about how the united states of america is governed, you know that we re a representative democracy, right? we elect our leaders at the federal level, at the state level, at the local level. we hold elections. the people who win those elections because they win the most votes, those people get put in charge of government. that s the way it works. except in the win place where they decided to not do it that way anymore, and that place is in michigan. republican governor rick snyder