… make the United States government and American politics work better, restoring this atrophied muscle that Congress has forgotten how to use of conducting hard hitting oversight is essential, particularly because Corruption in American politics is a problem that goes much deeper than just Donald Trump and the Trump administration. It is the underlying corruption in our political system, especially since Citizens United States, I think the most destructive court decision in modern American history that opened the floodgates for secret corporate money, secret billionaire money to corrupt our politics. (10:53–11:04)
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Asserts that political corruption extends beyond the Trump administration.
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