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Chris Murphy: “The corruption of our economy is downstream of the…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Published | Video Starts at 18:50

So both our economic and political messaging has to be about returning control to human beings and explaining to them, as we've talked about a few times, that it goes both ways. The corruption of our economy is downstream of the corruption of our democracy. But also, and I'll try to say this, the right way to end the corruption of our democracy is also downstream of the corruption of our economy. (18:50–18:56)

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Asserts that economic corruption is a result of political corruption.

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