When you have entities, institutions like the AI lobby, when you have crypto, when you have apec, when you have the military industrial complex spending hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, what it means in real life is, is that Members of Congress are scared to death about standing up to these special interests. They understand, for example, that if you say, no more US military aid to Israel, That the next day you're finding AIPAC spending all kinds of money trying to defeat you. (08:38–08:44)
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Asserts that Congress members fear opposing special interests due to financial influence.
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