but for tens and tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions, actually, that are disclosed. the next round of reports comes out on october 15th, and we re going to be looking at those reports to find out who on the super committee, that big congressional deficit committee that s going to look at $1 trillion plus in changes to taxes and spending, we re going to look at that and see who s been taking the political money and the lobbying money and see how that affects the the decisions. so there are millions and millions of dollars being disclosed every day, and we need to spotlight that. nick, i asked this of leo, i ve been asking this of myself and my staff and honestly the folks at the occupation and elsewhere. i would like to ask you. what, if you could just briefly tell us why you are here. what is your reason for devoting, obviously, your abundant professional resources and abilities to this particular thing. why? i believe in fairness. it s a value i was raised with. i wa
a government that s truly of, for, and by the people as long as we have a campaign system that s of wall street, by the oil companies, and for the insurance companies. that s why i m here. listen, thank you for sharing those final comments with us. i think that there s nothing more revealing i have not found anything more revealing than asking myself that question. i thank you, leo, for giving us the privilege of understanding your reasons for being here, and nick, the same for you, and i m hopeful that everyone in our audience will have the opportunity to offer those same declarations in the weeks to come so we can all understand why it is that we are here, so we can better work together to get where we are going. thank you, leo. thank you. thank you, nick. thank you, ddylan. coming up here on the d.r. show, arab autumn. we re not the only ones under a surge of energy for reform. we all know the middle east story. what is fueling the latest round of deadly violence in th
only with you and me and the 164,000 and counting on this petition, again, we know that the nitty-gritty, that the to do this takes the debate over the actual amendment. that leo and i can sit here and we can all petition, but if we don t have shovel, which is the actual text of an actual amendment, that we can actually put in the front of the face all of our politicians and demand, well, then we re just a loud crowd without a tool. with the tool, we are actually a weapon for positive change that we can all harness together. and to that end, i welcome nick nyhart, president and ceo of public campaign. he has been spending on his time pushing for publicly financed campaigns for years. nick, we ve tried to differentiate between offering a campaign financing solution, because we believe in an open source model of problem solving. we believe there s many ways to solve these problems, but we know that we can t even begin that debate until we end the auction. what is your interpretation of t
donor-based system like the fair election system that s up for debate in congress. and that s exactly the debate that somebody like myself would probably get into with you, and that i would argue any money is corrupting money. but that s the whole point of this fall debate. and that s why this is so exciting. if you look at this, leo, and look at the energy at these there s 1,300 occupations. it s not occupy wall street, it s occupy earth at this point. certainly by virtue of its wave. how do you interpret the collective energy, whether it is the occupation movement, whether it is the energy, for something like this petition, or the energy we saw under obama or the energy we saw under the tea party. this energy is not going anywhere. all of these movements start small and they try to find their definition as things evolve. what s really important, dylan, is that you and others add to their discussion, to their debate, to their protest. this issue, as nick just described, of money
last week, it s now on their lips and on their minds. the thing you ve got to do immediately, where nick is such a hero in this fight, you re not going to win these big constitutional issues overnight, they re going to take time. but transparency put, as he said, a bright spotlight on this money, so that when a woman or man abuses the system by using huge amounts of money or a corporation does, to take our government in a way contrary to the best interests of the middle class, we know who it is. we know their names, we know where they live, we know what they do for a living, and we can go after them personally and say, why are you doing this? nick, the challenge with that be, it would seem, is the super pac. i couldn t agree more that our obligation is to out and highlight those that are the most offensive in exploiting this auction system. at the same time, the ability to hide the money in the auction because of the super pacs makes the swaps market on wall street look transparent.