guest: i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these public officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the jimmy stewart mr. smith goes to washington scenario. and certainly that does happen. you have well-intentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. but my experience over the last 20 years or so in washington politics researching and writing, more often than not the opposite is true. you have a lot of corporations, other lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government, and you have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations
guest: i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these public officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the jimmy stewart mr. smith gooas i call this the jimmy stewart washington scenario and that does happen. you have well-intentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces but my experience in the washington politics in the writing is so often not the opposite is true but you have a lot of corporations into a lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government and the executive branch looking for ways in which to have their needs to get the corporations involved. the high-tech industry as a classic example if you look back 15, 20
guest: i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these public officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the jimmy stewart mr. smith the great. so i call this the june knee damage jimmy stewart mr. smith goes to washington scenario. you have well-intentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. my experience over the last 20 years or so the opposite is true that you have a lot of corporations and entities that essentially wants to be left alone by the federal government and have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. the high-tech industry is a cl
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major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ifill: nato ambassadors convened a rare emergency meeting today in brussels on the islamic state threat in turkey, after a string of attacks. representatives from 28 nations gathered at nato headquarters for the special session, at turkey s request. afterward, the alliance s secretary-general spoke to reporters. all allies stand in solidarity with turkey. we strongly condemn the terrorist attacks. we express our condolences to the turkish government and to the families of the victims in suruc and other attacks against police and military officers. ifill: at the same time, turkey faced more violence from kurdish milit