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[inaudible] amy: this comes as a group of democratic and progressive activists have published a new report autopsy: the democratic party in crisis. influence democratic party loyalists for refusing to examine their own role in their party s defeat. we will speak with co-author norman solomon. then more on money of politics as we look at new revelations from the paradise papers, a trove of millions of leaked documents in offshore finance that reveal commerce secretary wilbur ross conducting business with russian president vladimir putin s son-in-law through a shipping venture in russia. ross says he is to nothing wrong. made aink the media has lot more out of it than it deserves. the fact that it happens to be called a russian company does not mean that there is any evil. amy: we will speak with guardian reporter jon swaine who co-authored three reports from the paradise papers on tuesday .lone all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, ....
and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. i m so pleased to welcome jane mayer back to this program. she spent years cracking the shadowy world of the ultra rich and how they push their agendas. her latest text is called dark money. it s good to see you. great to be with you. you were not surprised given the back story with what happened in november. i wish i could say that were so. i didn t see necessarily trump being the choice. i think the power of the right is incredibly great, and hard to get around, but you know the people, i was writing about, the koch brothers backed other republicans. there was a swivel in the road. maybe not trump, but you saw the influence they had, the money they were spending, and what you detail here that they were pushing to have someone of their choice, of their mind-set in the oval office? yes, and what i had been seeing and following through the obama years and through the election was t ....
and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you, thank you. ann ravel was appointed to the federal election commission by president barack obama with unanimous consent. she stepped down in march and sounded a loud and blunt alarm producing a final report outlining the gridlock that has frozen the fec. the title of the report makes clear her discontent. i love this. dysfunction and deadlock, the crisis at the federal elections reveals the unlikely hood of draining the swamp. how is that for a title? ann, good to have you on the program. thank you, good to be here. i pulled this one paragraph from your reported that i think gives a pretty good sense of what is wrong with the fec and speaks, of course, to what is wrong with our elections at large. i might ask you to read your words to start the conversation? happy to do so, thank you. public should know about fec s failures. the commission made up of six commissioners is not performing it s duty. a bloc ....
and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. i m so pleased to welcome jane mayer back to this program. she spent years cracking the shadowy world of the ultra rich and how they push their agendas. her latest text is called dark money. it s good to see you. great to be with you. you were not surprised given the back story with what happened in november. i wish i could say that were so. i didn t see necessarily trump being the choice. i think the power of the right is incredibly great, and hard to get around, but you know the people, i was writing about, the koch brothers backed other republicans. there was a swivel in the road. maybe not trump, but you saw the influence they had, the money they were spending, and what you detail here that they were pushing to have someone of their choice, of their mind-set in the oval office? yes, and what i had been seeing and following through the obama years and through the election was t ....
at camp david and she said why not bring them here and get them away from the press and the they thought it would be three or four days. that is how the peace process was born. what was his view of manhattan megan? an obstinate individual and difficult for carter to deal with but carter to believe he had to make the greatest sacrifice at camp david. mahnakhan vegan s parents were killed in the holocaust. the had the burden of jewish history on his shoulders. he had to expand the safety of the jewish people enlarging the size of israel with his political agenda. for him to surrender sinai, the peninsula that israel had conquered in 1967 was to forfeit this huge strip of land that separated israel from the invading egyptian army. to trust his enemy was really hard for him to do. host: did anwar sadat and manakhan vegan develop a personal l.a. should? somewhat. they made history together but they didn t personally like each other very much. it wasn t the kind of re ....