BONUS: Full extended interview with Sen. Elizabeth Warren
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
4.6 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Senator Elizabeth Warren joins me now. |
| 0:02.0 | Thank you very much for coming on the beat. |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, thanks for having me. |
| 0:06.0 | You see it there, the contrast between what the president as a candidate ran on and the swamp that exists today. |
| 0:13.0 | What does your bill do? |
| 0:15.0 | Well, let's start with the fact that the Trump administration is the most corrupt presidential administration |
| 0:22.9 | in living memory. But the problem is not just with Trump. We've had a problem going on for a long |
| 0:30.5 | time about the influence of money in Washington. And, you know, we've talked about campaign finance |
| 0:36.0 | reform, and boy, that is a big part of it. |
| 0:39.0 | But there is so much more. |
| 0:41.2 | There are so many other ways that money makes its way felt. |
| 0:44.9 | And you've picked up some of them. |
| 0:47.1 | The fact that people in Congress actually own individual stocks and trade on those stocks on the one hand, |
| 0:53.9 | while they're doing policy, on the one hand, while they're doing policy, |
| 0:55.4 | on the other hand, that influences the value of those stocks, that's just not right. Because the |
| 1:01.2 | American people say, wait a minute, who are you working for? Were you working in the public |
| 1:05.7 | interest, or were you just working to line your own pocket? My bill puts an absolute stop to that. My bill |
| 1:12.6 | requires that people release their taxes. Anybody wants to run for federal office, then their |
| 1:18.6 | taxes will be released by the IRS. And every year that you're in federal office, your taxes will be |
| 1:26.6 | released. The American people have a right to know where you're getting your money from. |
| 1:30.5 | You know, these are just basic things. |
| 1:32.3 | I have to tell you, when I was putting this bill together, this is a big bill. |
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