clinton and newt gingrich circa 1995. by the end of that year, those two men would find themselves on opposing ends of the longest government shutdown of u.s. history. it would not be long before newt gingrich was leading a failed impeachment crusade to try to remove president clinton from office. but in june 1995, those two guys held a town hall event together. it remains the only town hall event held jointly by a sitting president and the speaker of the house. at one point they agreed on the spot to work together on something. i ve never heard this proposed before. maybe if we had a ribbon commission of people that had respect and integrity that would look at the lobbying process. i thought you were talking about health care reform. no, you want to do it on lobby reform? in a heartbeat. i accept. mr. president because otherwise, we cannot
government shutdown of u.s. history. it would not be long before newt gingrich was leading a failed impeachment crusade to try to remove president clinton from office. but in june 1995, those two guys held a town hall event together. it remains the only town hall event held jointly by a sitting president and the speaker of the house. at one point they agreed on the spot to work together on something. i ve never heard this proposed before. maybe if we had a ribbon commission of people that had respect and integrity that would look at the lobbying process. i thought you were talking about health care reform. no, you want to do it on lobby reform? in a heartbeat. i accept. mr. president because otherwise, we cannot pass lobby reform. i would love to have a
money in the lobbying process and campaigns and just clarifying those types of specific problems that we see with the current system. we ve listed all of those on our website on occupy wall street.org. reporter: thank you so much, tyler. you know, tyler is still working even though he s here every day. he goes home at night, he works overnight and he comes back here. that s really typical of a lot of people who are here. they are just very committed to what s going on here and so they re making whatever changes they have to make in their lives to be here and to contribute to this cause. as you mentioned, thomas, it is growing and spreading across the country. now word of solidarity protests taking place around the world, in fact, so this movement certainly doesn t seem to be losing momentum at this time and today is expected to be a very big day for them. thomas. mara, thanks so much. i want to pass along a programming note that mara will join tamron hall this afternoon. tamron w