inaugural unrig the system summit. the opening session included actress jennifer lawrence interviewing former federal election commission chair trevor potter on how politicians push legal limits. this portion of the event from new orleans is just over an hour. [applause] >> it is an honor to introduce our first speaker. [applause] buddy roemer is a louisiana native, a former member of congress and served as governor of louisiana from 1988-1992. 1988-1990 two. he was a presidential candidate in 2012 with a platform centered unrigging the--

system. >> washington is bought and sold. special interest control washington, d.c. >> he has not been invited to a single televised debate. >> wake up, america, they stole your government. [applause] buddy: welcome to louisiana. [applause] stay be wonderful. . was a governor 30 years ago after eight years of congressmen.

i have been around the world a couple of times. and i can tell you that louisiana is one of the special places in the world. flora, fauna, rivers, french heritage, some call occasion -- call it cajun. i speak slowly as i get old diabetic am a type one and have diabetic neuropathy. and mycts both my speech walking and gets worse and worse , so i apologize.

thisise the work of convocation. i ran for the united states congress five times. them, successfully. ran for governor and won it upset. after 20 years out of politics, iran for president -- i ran for president unsuccessfully. i never took pac money for either of those races. [applause] and i did not take contributions of more than $100. [applause] money spent against

me in the millions while in office. usually, i beat it. works against honesty, reality and, america. to the special interest, trade associations, and large corporations. to keep your job, you don't follow your values -- you follow the money. cussed andten

discussed these days. on a main theme, he is right -- on one main theme, he is right -- drain the swamp. , the tradedia associations, and the bureaucracy think they control america. they don't. we do. work hard and have fun. i am 100% with you. thank you. [applause]

[applause] now for someone who needs little introduction. i am delighted to welcome my fellow board member and academy award-winning actress jennifer lawrence. [applause] jennifer: hi. in 2011, stephen colbert stunned america by starting his own super pac and he showed just how thin the line is between bribery and legal political contribution. seven years later, we want to check in on how all of that is going. please welcome his personal pac,r for the super

current president of the campaign legal center, trevor potter. [applause] much.: thank you so welcome, trevor. i will jump right in. i am hollywood elite, so, as a hollywood elite, i want all of the influence i can buy but i am sure there are limits. if i wanted to give as much money as i wanted, it would be $1000 would be the limit? trevor: the legal limit you can ise directly to a candidate $2700. before you get nervous that that is not enough, you can give as much as you want to help the candidate. you just give it to a super pac, a single candidate super pac

that can then go and spend it on behalf of the candidate. in thereme court citizens united case struck down existing limits and said corporations, individuals could spend as much as they wanted to help candidates because that sort of independent spending could never be corrupted. [laughter] jennifer: that money is not going to a candidate, right? they do not have any say on how that money is being used? that would be a slush fund, monday -- money laundering. trevor: justice kennedy assumed this spending would be completely independent of candidates and parties, that these groups would operate as outsiders. but that is not how it has turned out. candidates nowadays create their

own independent super pacs before they become candidates and they raise money with these super pac's. once they become candidates, they can spend it to elect the candidate. jennifer: pretty clever. once they become candidates, they cannot touch any of it. [applause] trevor: it takes them a surprisingly long time to become candidates. you might recall jeb bush in 2016 who spent six or nine months going around the country traveling at the expense of the super pac, raising tens of millions of dollars saying he was thinking of exploring the possibility of considering whether to become a candidate. he did all that and then jumped into the race. jennifer: but once they sign all the paperwork, then they have to

stay away from super pac's, right? trevor: there are lots of ways they can and do stay in contact. for example, the federal elections commission says it is all right for candidates to appear at super pac fundraisers, either to raise small amounts or to be a featured or honored guest. that may not sound like a lot of contact to you, but the fec has said you can have one of these fundraisers with as few as two guests. kind of a private fundraiser. the candidate can thank people for giving and ask them to help support the work of the pac. the fec has come up with the two cats rule. you can be the principal fundraiser for a candidate and the fundraiser for the super pac. jennifer: there is a wall

between candidates and super pac's and if i throw big money at a super pac, my personal politician does not get to decide how it is spent, right? trevor: well, that is technically correct except that the people who do decide how to spend it are usually, in this scenario, the former campaign manager of the candidate or a close friend of the candidate and one of my favorite examples, the parents of the candidate who are running the super pac. they also can share common vendors so they can use the same consultants. basically, it is the other pocket on the candidate's coat. jennifer: if the candidate tells the super pac what to do with the money, that is legal? trevor: that would be illegal.

however, first they have to get caught and then the ftc has to have a majority vote on whether and the fecte it, is deadlocked on all of this. jennifer: if they break the rules, what is the punishment? a really big fine? trevor: the fec has never actually punished a candidate for coordinating with a super pac. they have never seen an example of that. jennifer: they must be blind, bless their hearts. let's say my candidate is testing the waters and they got caught telling a super pac what to do and the fec stormed down on them with power and fury. trevor: the first thing to remember is the candidate is

almost never fined. the committee or the super pac or the treasurer might be, but not the candidate. , theey levy a fine candidate or the super pac has to pay voluntarily, and if they do not agree, the ftc has to take them to court. if they do all of that, the problem is would the fec actually collected? there are fines that have been levied that the fec never got around to collect. jennifer: i can give as much as pac and thereper are no repercussions for the candidate. what about me? trevor: if you -- did not have a good lawyer and you gave directly, yes, you would be

listed as the donor of the super pac. lawyer, they good would say to you, you can give through an llc. you can create one. anythingould be named you want. you could name it after your cat. do you have a cat? jennifer: gof. no. but i do have a dog. pippy lawrence stockings. be to: your option would take a million dollars and give it to one of these tax-exempt nonprofit groups, a dark money expose -- they do not

disclose their donors. they can go ahead and spend it themselves or give it to the super pac and your name will never be out there. the supreme court said, don't worry about all of this new spending because it will be fully disclosed. that is not turned out to be the way they expected it to be. jennifer: ok. let's say we have weathered the storm, my candidate is elected by want to buy more politicians. let's say you are a politician. could i just get you a bunch of bribes to get you to do stuff? trevor: depending on who the politician was, yes. [laughter] mcdonnell ofor virginia just had his conviction

11 bribery charges overturned by the supreme court. i bet that surprises you. jennifer: i am very surprised. i could just get you a rolex or pay for your daughters wedding? trevor: literally, all of those things were taken by governor mcdonnell. his lawyers argued that was not a bride because what he did in return did not count as an official act. you only introduced the businessman to state officials themsked them to meet with and held events in the governor's mansion. the supreme court bought that argument. they said that was not a bride but constituent services. to chief justice referred

out-of-state contributors to .andidates as constituents i guess that means that every wealthy favor seeker in the country with a checkbook and a pocket full of rolexes can go right ahead. jennifer: this is all really disturbing. bribery is legal. in america. corruption is legal. are we at a tipping point? what will it take to get to a point where we were at post-watergate where congress felt obliged to take bold measures? trevor: i think we are at a tipping point. the good news is it is not too late. [applause] out there, at polls about half the people say we should completely get rid of the

current campaign-finance system and put in a new one. 30% say we should just make major changes in the system. everybody is on board with doing something. congress could pass bills that are sitting there, like the honest ads act, the disclose act . there are states and cities around the country doing interesting things. seattle has a citizen voucher program. the fec could update its disclosure rules enforced existing laws and crackdown on this nonclinical coronation -- non-coordination coordination racket. we have to work together to make it happen. [applause] jennifer: thank you for coming on the show.

>> our next speaker is an attorney and the national campaigns director for honor the earth. she was an advisor on native american issues for the bernie sanders campaign. she has been a powerful voice for justice on a stunning array of issues. [applause] >> how are you guys doing?

i would like to acknowledge whose land whereon right now. no other people have had relationship with the u.s. government quite like the indigenous people. we have had promises that have werebroken when treaties made. we talk about treaties like they are archaic. a u.s. led government systematically disempowered native people and take our children from us. in 2016, i thought i had a pretty good idea of what political corruption was. i worked in d.c. and on capitol sandersrked for bernie

-- [applause] but it was not until i went to north dakota that i truly understood what that meant. the dakota access pipeline, i saw corruption and corporate greed firsthand. i watched indigenous people think pushed off their lands. and interviewed women and children who had been bitten by attack dogs. when i was arrested, i was put into a dog kennel and strip-searched for a misdemeanor charge. that is a pretty interesting concept. i saw hundreds of people suffering from hypothermia and i saw bullets that left holes in people's legs from fighting this pipeline unarmed. i saw women who have really lost

their vision in one eye. when you look at that and you remember that all of this happened because of the pipeline, all this happened to unarmed people who pay the salaries of the law enforcement doing this. all of these human rights violations happened on u.s. soil. there were veterans who said it was like a war zone, that they could not believe this was happening in the u.s. we fight still, they did not break us. we continue to fight still. [applause] time, we are fighting a line through the mississippi river to the shores of lake said. -- lake superior.

all.ght for us we are fighting for your water and your children's futures. when i sit in spaces like this and we hear conversations about corporate greed and influence of politics, influence of money into politics, it is difficult after you have seen something like that. something like that fundamentally changes the way you look at justice. we recognize that something is wrong. we recognize that we need change. we recognize, usually, special interest influence our government systems and people do not hold the same rights that corporations do. we need more than just words. we need action, engagement beyond social media shares. incremental change is not going extreme climate.

it is not going to stop police brutality. it is not going to stop our friends and neighbors being deported. it will not stop the destruction of protected lands. today is friday. there is a land rush on a sacred site and other national parks right now in 2018. that narrative of seeing -- it is madness that is happening. we also recognize that some of the most oppressed, consistently forgotten people in this country led one of the most significant environmental movements in decades. we reached millions of people around the world. [applause]

we inspired resistance that continues. the targeting the banks that fund these projects, we have cost the industry billions of dollars. billions of dollars from committed people. the language of money is a powerful campaigning tool but in the end, the one truth is that we cannot drink money. climate change and a lack of clean drinking water becomes a reality. the first u.s. climate change refugees are here in louisiana. indigenous people whose homelands are underwater. it is time to learn from our past mistakes. it is justice for all. remember that we have to be inclusive and collaborate together. we have to find real solutions in these urgent times and

please, please, heed the message from the original people -- water is life. [applause] >> thank you, tara. our next speaker has been a democracy reform activist and leader for more than three decades, including over 25 years with common cause. kare karen: thank you. it is great to be here today. to hear from these powerful speakers. i am so encouraged by the crowd we have here today and that are joining us for three days to talk about how we can work together and collaborate to tackle the very difficult challenges we face.

john gardner founded common cause 50 years ago because he -- banks, pharma, oil and gas, they had representatives lobbying on capitol hill and they were giving huge campaign contributions and they often got what they wanted. he formed common cause to take on the special interest and to be working on ways that the people's voice can be heard in our democracy. common cause worked at the state and local level and at the federal level to move transparency reform, freedom of information reform, ethics, campaign finance reform as well as election reform. not because they are an end to themselves but because they allow people to take on power so their voices are heard in

elections, district lines are not drawn to stifle people's voice. politicians choose voters insert of the other way around. that work continues and many groups have joined this movement, which i think is so important because we will never win if we do not have more people joining us. i wanted to talk about the challenges our movement faces and what we need to do to take advantage of this opportunity where millions of people understand that our system is broken and needs to be fixed. first, i think we can learn some .essons from the right one of the challenges we faced over the last few decades is that the far right has invested millions of dollars in tackling and taking down the reforms we pass. millionaires like the koch brothers provide funding for groups sos, legal

they can sue every campaign reform -- campaign finance reform bill that has been passed and help to bring us citizens united decision. funded right-wing media sources, groups like the american legislative exchange council to work with state legislatures to move an antigovernment, anti-regulation, and anti-democracy platform and move that at the state level. organizations that work with thousands of ground troops who are working on get out the vote and encouraging and voting for candidates and in between elections, they spend their time recruiting for more people to get involved. we do not have this kind of infrastructure yet. that is what we have to work on. we have to look at this as a

long-term effort to be moving reform that breakdown barriers to participation and we need donors and funders to support that work. over the long haul. we also need to recognize there is no silver bullet. there are a lot of single issue organizations out there. important andre there is no one single issue that trumps all others. we also need to simultaneously be tackling institutional and structural racism. one way to do that is to be looking the reforms -- [applause] the reforms we need to move with an equity lands to see if there to see if there are unintended consequences. we do not have a reflective

democracy. 51% of our population are women but they only hold 29% of the seats of the local all the way up to the federal level. women of color represent -- hold 4% of the seats. this is in blue states, red states, and states. -- the states. -- purple states. we need to make it easier for people to run for office. in a place like connecticut, where i helped lead an effort to move small donor public financing, candidates who were not wealthy could afford to run for office by collecting small contributions and getting a grant. they could bring their issue to the table. they could listen to their constituents. what do they want?

juvenile justice reform, ending the death penalty, environmental reforms. that is why this matters. we also need to break out of our echo chamber. the truth is, when common cause is working on issues like voting reform, small donor public financing, we work with applicants an independents. it is not just progressives that support this work. it is hard to imagine him him we look at the cnc the dysfunction there that we are moving -- it is hard to imagine when we look at d.c. and we see the dysfunction there. we need to recognize that .emocracy is 365 days a year it is not just around election time. we see groups come in and funders come in to focus on the three months before an election.

we'd to be engaging people after the election. -- we need to be engaging people after the election. we need to move legislation that can make a difference for people's lives. this is so that we can have the clean water we need for our communities, the clean water for places like flint, michigan, and that is why we need to move these reforms. we need to recognize that the state and localities are leading the way and you will hear over the next couple of days inspiring stories of how that is happening now. when you are thinking about the challenges we face in washington, d.c., i believe the state and cities are going to be leading the way in this reform effort. one of the things i think about when i think about some of what we are facing -- i am inspired by the millions and millions of activists protesting in the

streets and not just to resist the trump administration, their actions on immigration or health care. they are joining our group -- our membership has catapulted -- they want to be engaged in moving these reforms at the state of local level. they want to be part of the fight for redistricting. that is what inspires me and i am very excited to work with all of you as we come together so we can figure out how we can work together on this work. thank you. [applause] speaker serves as a harvarddvisor at university. he now serves as the national court in eating -- quote in

dintingcommittee -- coor committee. please welcome renaldo pearson. [applause] >> i attended morehouse college. the alma mater of dr. martin luther king. naturally, i took a deep dive in civil rights movement history. i went to pick up michelle alexander's book. by the fact that another system had arisen out of the ashes that dr. king and others fought so hard to dismantle. i became a criminal justice

advocate and the youngest member of the mass incarceration pushed the obama administration to end the war on drugs and the mass incarceration its bond. -- it spawned. long for me to -- that no matter how many we continue to face diminishing returns due to the big-money interest that block the necessary legislative reforms that most americans support. this was not just the case with criminal justice reform but it remains true for issues across the gamut of public interest, a living wage, debt free college andation, support for daca, the list goes on.

happened and that election revealed a problem so big that you almost have to step back just beyond the echo chamber of punditry just to see it. a broken democracy. more specifically, it revealed what i called the seven deadly sins of american democracy. voter suppression. despite internationally low voter turnout, 99 bills were introduced to restrict access to registration and voting. voter erasure. the reason for not amend and -- wherecent phenomena i voters were purged from the rolls.

felon disenfranchisement. theirns who have served time are still barred from the right to vote. the corrupting influence of money in politics. gerrymandering. this is nothing more that a practice of politicians choosing their voters. systems.e voting not just the russian tampering but also the uncounted spoiled ballots. finally, the electoral college. if we are to fix our democracy, america must finally face the fact that the electoral college is a vestige of our nation's original sin of slavery. [applause]

3/5 compromise, anyone? not to mention the of oneutional principle person, one vote. before dr. king was assassinated, he was preparing to preach a sermon titled why america may go to hell. this sermon is more typical of today, not because of those seven deadly sins alone but because those sins aided and abetted by the age-old trick of divide and conquer politics are keeping us from addressing the and the existential

threats of climate change. not to mention the common challenges like economic inequality and mass incarceration. dr. king was not able to preach that sermon but he left us some clues. either we will learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. he said, now more than ever before, america is challenged to realize it stream for the shape of the world -- realized it stream for the shape of the world today does not provide the luxury for an anemic democracy. the hour is late and the clock of destiny is taking out. -- ticking. we must act now before it is too late. the doomsday clock is closer to

midnight then has been since the height of the cold war in 1953 and the evaporating timeline climate scientist say we have to reverse the effects of climate change, it is more precious today than ever before. in a real and apocalyptic sense, .merica may go to hell we still have a fighting chance. we must work with a fierce urgency to redeem this nation of those seven deadly sense. we cannot do it without the nonviolent direct action we need. [applause] from the founding revolution to women's suffrage and civil

rights, no major, craddick struggle has been -- no democratic struggle has been won without the sword that heals. -- we organize the largest civil disobedience this century in april of 2016 against big-money and politics and voter suppression. [applause] with the regression we are seeing at the federal level, we must build a grassroots nonviolent army to take that fight to local and state levels to win things like automatic voter registration, public financing for campaigns. [applause] this, there is

this misconception that civil .isobedience is a leftist tool dr. king did not see it that way. and neither did republican new york governor nelson rockefeller when he said -- he sent the money to bail out the children who put their bodies on the line in the birmingham campaign in the 1960's. nonviolent direct action is not the liberal or conservative thing to do. it is the right thing to do. [applause] it is the right thing to do in the face of unequal and unjust laws and those seven deadly sins fit the bill. [applause] the fact of the matter is that this is a decisive moment in the american story and a new chapter is being written.

this calls for real patriots and creative synergy sacrifice. real patriots who see the urgency of collaboration and put their careers and bodies on the line to get into what john lewis calls good trouble. [applause] i will leave you with these words. the world is equally balanced between good and evil. your next act will tip the scales. [applause] >> thank you, renaldo. thank you.

our next speaker is a professor of law at leadership at harvard law school and one of the most compelling voices of the anticorruption movement and a prolific public interest entrepreneur. he started change congress, mayday pac, he ran for president on a platform to unrig the system. more recently he started equal citizens. please welcome him. [applause] >> the fact is, none of us want to be here. [laughter] i don't mean literally. you know, this is new orleans and i am sharing a stage with jennifer lawrence and buddy roemer. so don't get me wrong, i am perfectly happy to be here today. none of us want to have to be here. none of us want to be living in a democracy where our first fight has got to be about that

democracy because all of us believe that there are real things, important things, substantial things that this democracy must do but that it cannot do now. some of us want to address climate change, finally. some of us want to fight the inequality that has shot through the society from the hopelessness of the steelworkers mother barelye able to provide for her kids while working two jobs every single day. this is america and that is not right. [applause] to kickstart an economy where middle-class wages hover and they do not rise, productivity and corporate

profits rise, rise, and rise. for two generations, 50% of americans have seen no growth in their income. last year, 1% of americans captured 82% of the wealth that this economy created. that is not right. now whatever the issue, whatever the issue, what we know is we won't address any of these issues sensibly until we fix this democracy first. this we all know. what we don't know is how we do that. i don't mean what changes we need to make. we are pretty good about that come we know those answers -- that, we know those answers. what i mean is how do we get america to take up the fight to take back our democracy? that begins by speaking an obvious truth. they don't represent us.

when congressman spend 30-70% of their time sucking up to 100,000 rich people, they do not represent us, they represent them. when gerrymandering makes congressman care only about the fringes of their own party, they do not represent us. they represent them. when the president gets elected with a system that concentrates campaigns and a dozen battleground states, states that represent only 35% of america, we know that president cannot represent us. henote that -- we know that represent them. [applause] they don't represent us. that is true whether you are a republican or democrat, whether you are from montana or north carolina, whether you are old or not yet old, whatever your race,

whatever your sex, they don't represent us. [applause] that truth is step one. step two is to use that truth, a truth already believed by practically every american, to build a different kind of political movement. a political movement that steps to the side and above partisan politics. all across america, there are thousands who have been inspired by reverend barber. [applause] those thousands, tens of thousands, go from community to community to say how can we possibly disagree? black citizens travel to kkk country and sitting at the kitchen tables of men whose fathers burned crosses. they ask, how could we possibly

disagree? and from that question, a question with only one possible answer, the moral majority movement is building a movement. knitmovement will america together. for the first time ever, just maybe. we need a moral movement here, too. we need a movement that does not just hang around in d.c. but gets citizens to walk with citizens. on this issue, we are not divided. we are united. and then step three, we must turn those citizens to our leaders, to the people we elect to represent us, and tell them, if you want our votes, you must commit to fixing this democracy first. because at some point my friends we have to draw a line of

, integrity across the ground that stands before us and ask on which side do you stand? it is fine to talk about single-payer health care but it is not serious unless you show us how you will fix the democracy first. unlessust not serious you explain to us how you are going to fix this democracy first. dupe us.s -- we are not stupid. we know that their words mean it nothing unless they fix this democracy first. [applause] we have been patient for way too long. we have been way too polite for way too long. our entitlement.

we are citizens and this is a democracy. we must use that power to make this change happen now, because we cannot afford to be hanging around in conferences like this. we can't afford a democracy that still needs to fix itself. there is too much to be done. there is too much that a moral america, the only great america --t i can imagine, can do muska do. let us bring america to its feet. let us get america to walk, and in those walks as dr. king asked us, let us dream, injuring again, jim of the -- dream again, dream of the greatness.

i will stand with you if you will say to me, i will fix this democracy first now. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, larry. that was great. [applause] thank you, larry. is aext and final speaker pulitzer winning journalist, best-selling author, and the founder of sidekicks, an intimate of -- innovative approach to connecting with children. he lectures about narrative and justice at harvard law school. please welcome him. [applause]

>> thank you. i want to cross the roster and i realized that i am just about the only working journalist today. so want to speak as enemies of the people. that is me. someone must. we as reporters are used to being hated. it is part of the job. urge.e a sco we're trying to hold elected people accountable. coveredthe folks i have have not liked me very much. did not like me. i got nothing against you personally, but that thing in the newspaper, i don't know what

to say. [laughter] and some of them, well they just outright hated me. [laughter] bush walk.d do that you do that type sphincter thing. i'm not sure whether i should hug you or hit you. it is my choice as the decider. [laughter] so we're used to being hated. but we are in a new place now, man. my wife would not let me do trump impressions anymore in the house, so i just do it out here on stages. [laughter] everyone can do it. nixon, is it average

cleaver, this is trump. you put the pinky out. [laughter] this man is keeping me up at night. he is keeping all of us up. at night. we are all got damped sleepless. you got an alarm clock, that is her clock. put the phone in the kitchen. where all -- we are all getting up at 4:00 in the morning. that is part of his plan. the men is up late in the night tweeting. what a nightmare, you're waking up to trump. -- milani aalaria -- melania trump. seriously about

these principles that are under siege. ateach a class with larry harvard law school. i know this entire movement that you are a part of. theof people are saying system is busted, fix it. that the high majority of people. in some ways, the moment you are in now is the ideal moment because fear works. fear drives change. we want -- we hate to admit that, everyone likes hope better, right? we have to respect. . pit drives change in history. also respect another thing. years ago i was talking to a

famous psychiatrist about something that was not working in my family. my mother would not admit that she was starting in two alzheimer's -- into alzheimer's. she know it but she did not want to admit it. denial. you must remember to respect denial. it is a key part of the human architecture, allowing us to get up in the morning when we do not think that we can get up. when the world has thrown so much at us that it seems untenable. when it to all respect denial. there is a lot of people in the denial.and denial -- in when you respected them out

there on the campaign, when you respect them in all the ways you hope to rewrite the loss, your understanding them, and that -- you are understanding them. there is also a compromise. it is hard, lots of people in this room think that the other side is the enemy. i can't even be in the same room as them. we have been here before. this is always the way it has been in this country, us versus them. they are not even a human being like me, how can i accord them the respect of a negotiation. with the very clear -- let's be very clear about this. this country have survived from its start on compromise. the senate and the house,

compromise. big states versus little ones, everything, with one exception. that is called the civil war. that is the dilemma we are all in now. i call it something that is different. i call it principled compromise. what is that mean? that means that we have to agree on fundamental principles. with all agree on that, don't we -- we all agree on that, don't we? unless there is that foundation, we're lost. there are fundamental principles that we agree about. with all know them. one man, one vote. lot -- rule of law. without that there is nothing.

liberty,f happiness, as long as it does not infringe upon the rights of someone else, or harm them. fundamental. and finally, the free press. that's right. [applause] with our the only profession mentioned -- we are the only profession mentioned in the bill of rights. doesn't that give us something? what is that mean, what is our job? our job simply in this context of this thing we call our democracy is simply to nourish not justto inform it -- it with not just the facts, but context.

unless the facts are in a context that is thoughtful, they just float. are you hearing me fox news? i will give you one example. trey gowdy just left congress. one day i'm watching fox news. a nine-month investigation on hillary and benghazi. nine months. after hour, dowdy's wrongdoingays no here at all. yikes! this gets 30 seconds on fox news. that is a failure of context. you cannot do that, it is a fundamental violation. you can't do that.

let me just finish by making this personal. since that is what he does. do in mything i profession, the only thing we do is truth. that's it. things,ople do other they run businesses, they make profits, they manage other people. all we do is look for truth that is objective, verifiable, and in context. that is all we do. is complicated -- it is complicated, but the court thing that we do the simple and clear. truth. to do that, me and might gained -- me and my gang walk-through war zones to get it. i have done it. i have been chased by suicide

bombers and i have a whole bunch of people who do that. enemy -- we are not the enemy. [applause] let me give you a clue. anyone says something is fake news it means it is huge news. [applause] change the system. bless you all. [applause] >> and now more from the unrig the system summit.

this panel focuses on presidential elections and includes members of groups advocating for a popular vote to replace the electoral college. this event is one hour. >> all right. [applause] welcome, everyone. it is really tremendous to see somebody people in the room for what is a really important issue that does not get enough attention. for the next hour we are going to focus on the puck you your ways that we choose -- for the next hour we are going to focus on the peculiar ways that we choose our president. we have the electoral college. now if i speak like this? the election of donald trump marked the fifth time in our history that the electoral collegete