Elizabeth Warren v. the District of Corruption

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Between appointing his daughter and son-in-law to senior White House positions, engaging in business deals with foreign governments, and “encouraging” diplomats and dignitaries to book rooms in his hotels, Donald Trump’s administration is setting new records for executive malfeasance. When corruption is so widespread, so pervasive, so ingrained in the political culture in Washington, D.C. and the executive branch, how do you push back? Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren joins Mehdi Hasan in an exclusive interview to discuss her anti-corruption legislation and how she plans to pull corporate money out of Washington.

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0:00.0	Money is going to drown our democracy.
0:04.0	And if we don't start fighting back and fighting back more aggressively,
0:08.0	then we are part of the problem as well.
0:16.0	Welcome to Deconstructed. I'm Mehdi Hassan.
0:19.0	Today on the show, the Seaward.
0:21.0	No, not some under B. Seaward about Ivanka Trump.
0:24.0	No. And not Robert Mueller's Seaward in relation to Trump and Russia.
0:28.0	Today's show is not about collusion, but it is about something perhaps just as bad.
0:33.0	Corruption.
0:35.0	Powerful corporations and their Republican allies are working overtime to roll back basic rules that protect the rest of it.
0:44.0	So why is this happening? The answer is pretty simple. Corruption.
0:49.0	That's my guess today. Yes, you may have recognized her voice, Senator Elizabeth Warren.
0:54.0	The Senator from Massachusetts, Bank of Bashar in chief for the Democrats and possible presidential candidate come 2020.
1:00.0	I'll be talking with her about her new plan to clean up U.S. politics.
1:04.0	So let's talk corruption in Trump's America.
1:12.0	Well, as a cloud of corruption has hanging over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the more that we learn the worst that it gets for the Trump administration.
1:19.0	Maryland and the District of Columbia allege that the president has received improper payments from foreign governments through his DC hotel.
1:27.0	The President of the United States attempted to use the power of his office to financially injure a company owned by a man who published journalism the president doesn't like.
1:36.0	He frequently visits properties that he owns, raising the profile of his private enterprise on the taxpayers dying.
1:42.0	Does the president believe that he is above the law?
1:46.0	Certainly not. The president hasn't done anything wrong.
1:50.0	One of the things you may not know about me is where my parents are from because I've mentioned on the show before that I'm British.
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