money election and then a voting election. to get that second vote, you need to keep that fraction of one percent happy. explain that assertion, unpack that a little for us. >> money is the mortar of the status quo. i mean everything knows that, you can have everyone in favor of reform and i have been there before and have one special interest oppose you and it won't even get to the floor of congress, even though you have consumer groups, industry, everyone else in favor of it. in my case it happened to be a reform that the trial lawyers imposed. but it happens with all interest groups, so we wonder why nothing ever changes and congress keeps kicking the can down the road. because there ee's relatively aw special interest groups that give all the money. >> i wanted to ask about one of the specific subjects in this piece.