I'm Bill Moyers. This week on Warriors and Company, the Supreme Court considers handing the rich even more power over democracy.

Heather Gerkin.

What we're seeing really right now is just money being pulled into the system because politicians are always hungry for more money.

Right now we limit the ways they can get that money, but what McCutcheon wants to do

is make it easier for politicians to get that money.

And the noted storyteller and historian Joyce Appleby explores how curiosity liberated the old world

to create the new.

Curiosity depends upon your imagining something different from what exists.

It absolutely has this radical notion that we aren't bound by everything that we see and that we're told.

Thanks for joining us. that we see and that we're told.

Thanks for joining us.

It will take a long time to recover from what's been happening in Washington.

But we now know that the insurrection against the rule of law didn't happen spontaneously.

It was hatched months ago.

Not by rank-and-file folks across the country who look on Michelle Bachman as the incarnation

of Joan of Arc, but by old hands at right-wing politics who are buried deep into the culture

of Washington. Like this man, Edwin Meese, who was Ronald Reagan's Attorney General

and has been hanging around the Heritage Foundation, more or less, ever since. Heritage is where

the faithful received communion and pick up their talking points. According to reporting by

New York Times journalist Cheryl Gay-Snowberg and Mike McIntyre. Just after Barack Obama

began his second term, Ed Meese and the leaders of three dozen conservative groups met

to decide on a take-no-prisoner strategy to defund Obamacare, even if it meant shutting

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