you prefer the soviet style prt of the democratic party s internal elections, where votes from merely a formality. all the really big decisions, the meaningful ones, are made thars in advance by donors. oh, of course, everyone sif y on board. that s what they do. but ifou prefe you prefer democy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues thatet actually matter, it s pretty. refreshing to see it . yes, it s a little chaotic, buti this is what it s supposed to be now. we re going to give you a lotth more detail on what s happening in just a minute and throughout the week. but first, t firs a quick overviewe big to frame the big points. kevi kevin mccarthy of californo was going to be speaker. he was g wants to be speaker. in fact, he wants that job, more than anything else in his life. and he was going to get it. ause but then a group ofd that kevin twenty republican members stopped him. now they stopped becausepresent they decided that kevin mccarthy is not conser
this. we re about to talk to someone who s seen it firs t cond calling means early in his career. calling means consultant forns ultant fthe coca-cola company. his job was to ensure that sugar taxes failed and that soda was included in food stamp funding so poor people could have all the soda they needed and you could pay for itha. kalamian says that coca-colaa. paid the naacp and other civil rights groups to brand opponents of that plan as racist. oh, you re a racist.racist a okay, so that s how it works. keli means is the co-founder of thue medicine and a whistleblower. he joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on . so you re basically confirming the most cynical assumption ofl observers, which is that this is all a pay for play deal . the big corporations use these groups, people like greenblat at adl and the naacp to hurtts. their business opponents. insid that s what you saw, tucker, being inside oe f the room. the there are three parts to the and playbook to basically