am thrilled to be here i mean who would not want to be here if you only have three and a half hours a day on radio and television to discuss the horrible state of our union and why wouldn't you want to talking about the state of the world not just food that anybody mary richardson who is brilliant in her work and chronicle is great but nobody does a better job if you don't watch parts unknown sunday night nobody does a better job on politics culture food the intersection of all this and i was totally thrilled i'm in love and any case thanks for the invitation again and i just want to go back to what wendy said for one second i'm a huge admirer of hers and i do virtually do anything the tree asked and the one correction i want to make in her little statement there is she said he wants me to text i actually don't want to text on my own or on my children there will be times when i get twenty texts in a row from wendy wright in a row and then i just lie in the car as i'm sitting outside as edward who your does the building was nice enough to meet me i wrote down two or the three this is honest to god true most recent text i got from one day i want to leave the topic one was say it dammit meaning she had told me what to say and i hadn't said it and the next text was don't be a whip so truly great we're doing live radio having a friend yours send these kinds of so it's fun to stop if you're it really is fun to stop now let me tell you how i decided to do tonight because i actually am much more interested in talking with you than talking to you i'm not going to give a traditional speech i'm going to give you a list of things observations about the current situation it may not be what you expect it's mostly trump free and the reason for that is because i'm seriously i sue most of your you will ask questions i want to give you one little radio factoid go before i start i wrote down ten things this afternoon i really will run through them quickly i think they're all matter but they're not what you'd expect in most cases  fabulous young woman to try to figure out in her whole career because we keep wads what's the most number of days in a row we have ever done at least one segment on the same person or thing and the largest number you'll never guess who palin actually since that is the row anybody want to guess how many days christina told us we had talked about donald trump and i want us six hundred six hundred days in a row after never having talked about anything thing or person more than five or six days in a row and are nineteen years on and by the way that you can love down drunk or hate dollar trump i'm not here to try to convince you of either but in my career at least there is never been any human being who is more driven the news not just every day but every hour than this guy so the case let me get on this list as quickly as possible i hope that's ok you want me to speak longer than questions shorter i'm really not into that i'm more into hearing what you're into and then i'll try to answer your questions as best i can number one is a mix of bad news and good news the bad news is the feds are obviously stepping out of a lot of been traditionally their responsibilities the good news is the states cities and towns some corporations in this country are stepping in we spoke at marketing day on the radio just came back from bonn from the climate conference the bad news is that i said to senator markey if i had said to you a month ago that you're going to be closer to the country of syria on climate change then the united states what would you have said i simmer right knows that syria joined the paris climate accord we're the only nation on the planet that does not belong the significance of that is governors mayors al gore ed markey etc when some major corporations some that were not usual suspects went as well so i guess to a great degree states are becoming as bill mckibben suggested from start of this whole environmental movement with end of nature twenty five years ago the laboratories of democracy and i don't like it i would like our federal government to fulfill what we most of us consider to be the basic responsibilities of the federal government but if they don't rather than bitching which is what we've all elevated to an art form let our other representative government fill in and let me  tens of thousands of more of his citizens i don't consider it to be a bad political move i consider to be immoral immoral when there are seventeen republican governors in the united states who have chosen not to take money from the federal government to ensure that more of their low income constituents can be covered with health care well paula page was on the wrong side of history the voters in maine by think of fifty nine to forty one they became the leaders and decided that they would expand medicaid themselves above twenty five states twenty six like masters of the light to pass laws on the ballot the people of maine did that is a major moment in my estimation if the leaders won't lead the people have to lead and they did number two congress leans on nothing absolutely the most dysfunctional body in the history of humankind john king who plays a rate down the middle john king from c n n is on a radio show every tuesday in part because he likes us  like him in part because you can't you can take the boy out of dorchester but you can't take dorchester out of the boy he loves his roots what john says all the time with which i am in total agreement the people the united states are not entitled to an outcome they're entitled to a debate that's the minimum that we are owed by the people who represent us let's pick a topic right everybody in this room would like to see a debate guns maybe there won't be a resolution but at least we are in e to a debate and before those of you who are partisan and say well that's all the republicans hold over the democratic said in last year on guns nancy pelosi said we'll be here till hell freezes over you want health froze over the next morning when they had to go home for july fourth vacation margaret the king probably wouldn't go on home and they said they were emulating his style so i don't want to portion responsibility but everybody own some of the blame in my opinion for the pathetic performance of this congress i don't know of people watching t v on sunday one of the gun related thing and congress failure to represent the people john cornyn the senator from texas republican senator from texas was at the church service of the church with twenty six people were killed a week before and said much to the surprise of many of us but i assume to the pleasure of the ninety one percent of americans who support background checks including the vast majority of  checks i will file a bill as early as tomorrow the republican senator from texas mandating that there be background checks that was sunday or monday was the next days then by saying the bill no you're not seeing that bill you have not seen the bill on bum stocks which most of us never heard of the term before did we know margery eagan in our naive tape the day after a couple of days after this have chuck todd from meet the press is with us every thursday morning and we said t chuck this is going to happen i can't believe this is going to happen there are a bunch of republican senators and we went down the list of republican senators who are supporting banning bum stocks not a huge step but a step never less you know his line was t you are naive until the n r a gives its permission to the united states congress nothing will happen and you know what has happened nothing three speaking of congress when you mention sexual harassment i bet you missed the story ordained today was talking about sexual harasser in the restaurant industry which i thought was really interesting i hope you read yvonne abraham's piece in the globe about sexual harassment on beacon hill and there was a lot of testimony today mostly from women members of congress about changing the sexual harassment rules and consummately what the rules are and i bet you don't know your staffer on capitol hill you claim you've been sexually harassed you can't file lawsuit or file a complaint right away you first have to file for you have to proceed to thirty days of mandatory counseling ok wait don't oh my god yet my friend begets works you know what you're doing after thirty days of mandatory counseling thirty days of mandatory what's the mediation oh my god oh my god in spades in the second during those sixty days when most women need the support of friends and people they love you are not permitted to tell anybody that you are claiming the resection breast if you do you can be disciplined and after you've completed the sixty days in silence if you file a complaint or file litigation and you win against for example a sitting member of congress you know who pays the settlement you do the taxpayers of the united states fund the settlement even if a member of congress is found liable for having sexually harassed a staff person another member of congress and cetera it's a poll and speaking of congress this is going to offend a lot of you and i apologize in advance and i that's not a joke i really am going to offend you congress is too old i'm getting old so i can say it they're just too old nancy pelosi is seventy seven i know we would know the affordable care act without her it's time to go when you turn on the senate judiciary committee and the two chairs grassley from iowa and feinstein the ranking member from san francisco eighty four and you say yourself you want that thirty seven year old person from iowa to believe that government represents them they're not going to believe that and no i'm not saying people be sent out to pasture i happen to believe i'm writing a story for the globe magazine it'll be in december there should be mandatory retirement and move on to something else that matters in your community and i know the three words you're all thinking which convinces you that i am wrong ruth bader ginsburg is eighty four years old her leaving would be horrible absolutely horrible but sometimes you have to decide in a large way what is best for small d democracy and i think people refusing to leave their positions so there's no room for the next generation of leaders to begin to grow which is pretty much what the seth moulton and others said when they challenge nancy pelosi they praise their work no one can fail to praise her work it's time to go new book all been very nice none of your looking at me with d of ten almost halfway there this is the first of i guess you would call my pogo arguments i've seen the enemy and it is us this is something i care about more than almost anything if you don't vote shut up action shot up now for those who think was not that bad twenty seven percent of the people voted in the boston mayor lection it is a disgrace and don't tell me it was obvious marty walsh was going to be tito jackson who cares who cares if you think the job matters you go vote people celebrated the clinton clinton trump thing was fifty eight percent fifty eight percent which is pathetic of registered voters how about the twenty plus percent of the people of this country that too don't even bother to register so it is depresses that dramatically if you vote you have an entitlement to criticize and embrace i mean this sincerely if there was a way and i'm not being hyperbolic if there was a way to prove you could wear a scarlet letter v if i knew that a caller to my show or somebody here raise their hand and i knew that they had chosen not to vote that it was that they were sick or they couldn't get to the polls my attitude is you've given up your right to speech so in any case i have a lot of ideas which i will share with you in about thirty seconds worth about what can be done and should be done to morrow those fifty million people aren't registered there should be automatic voter registration a bill that's pending can opt out of the vote but your register automatically i think there should be a pact amongst media people is a first amendment problem so we'd have to agree no polling results reported from last month and there's huge impact and all it is is salacious crap for people like me and it's easy you don't have to do your work if you're somebody like me all you have to do is read a horse race thing which excites people who are in your audience it affects whether people go to the polls and should or not go to the polls there's no need to know what the horse race is now i want to say one more thing utah phillips who none of you ever heard of anyway with her of your  not have candidates in the minds of the american people in two thousand and sixteen when you go to the polls and you know that the person who's going to be elected the leader of this country whether you supported hillary clinton or you supported donald trump that person will the next day give their victory speech with sixty percent of the american people disapproving of them that's not good for democracy you can believe hillary clinton is the greatest thing that ever happened you can believe donald trump is the greatest thing that ever happened the people rendered their verdict in those numbers suggesting these people don't represent me in the way i want or they didn't satisfy your cause criteria by the way there should be saturday and sunday voting a radical idea i proposed on my one term on the cambridge city council you were on the cambridge said yes i was retired undefeated i should say thank god sixteen and seventeen year olds should be able to vote go register with your family while you're still home is sort of family activity well it even better idea is start voting with your family on something that matters to you like a school committee vote you know we all say a bad habit start when your kid smoking cigarettes doing drugs whatever you're going to continue that well in my estimation good habits continue if you start as a kid to start voting at sixteen so if you want to ask the million other ideas that if you want to if you don't don't worry about six if you do vote this is another one that's really high up on my list think judges the single most important thing that this president has done so far is a point neal gorsuch a supreme court and again you may think it's great or horrible that's not the issue you he's going to be there maybe through the next i don't know ten presidential elections doesn't matter who you vote let's go down one damon read the new york i'm sure you already read the new york times on sunday two of the most jarring stories i've ever read your beck's rally is anybody here but tally is a thirty six year old man who was unanimously approved by the republicans on the senate judiciary committee to be a federal appellate court judge from alabama he was also he got another unanimous vote this one from the american bar unanimous support from the republicans way say what's the big deal he's never tried a case he's never argued a motion in court by the way i was a pretty crappy lawyer when i was a kid i are going to motion on my first day in court any lawyer in the room who was a trial lawyer i assume did it the first day that none in a tweet during the election this is the guy who has to be a federal appellate court judge ruling in unbiased fashion on things that matter to all of us abortion the environment whatever it is referred to the democratic candidate is hillary rotten r o t t e n clinton when he filled out his paperwork for the senate judiciary committee he failed to mention that his wife was the chief of staff to the general counsel for the white house which is a potential conflict of interest which you are required to report on the forms you submit worst he is thirty six years old if he has a normal life expectancy most of us will be dead our kids will of baby voted in five six seven presidential elections and it does if you vote for you vote for bernie sanders the next ten times doesn't matter if those appellate courts are filled with people who have a perspective that is not yours maybe it is not yours you're stuck with it he is appointed more a federal appellate court judges in his first year that anybody since richard nixon and the new york times estimates that fifty percent of the federal appellate seats he could fill by the end of his first term so people who go to vote and say there's no difference between the candidates in any election and don't think about the impact on the judiciary are fools back to pogo talk radio and television i do work there is the place where most good ideas go to die having said  that there's a lot of wonderful press work despite you know donald trump calling it the amazon washington post in the failing new york times a new york times work has been brilliant the daily if you don't listen at morning podcast of you're busy and driving to work or whatever you are it's the best i think thirty minutes wrap on the day marked by the barbaro it is brilliant it is just spectacular if you don't do it you should do it already i am not crazy about the reporters not columnists reporters going on television and tweeting or speaking their opinions on the issues which they're covering i think it really crosses the line and i feel that way even about reporters who are whose work i love but i think there's far too much that it compromises their integrity and the other problem which i think will to deepest problems about and this is the pogo part people and you've heard this is thousand times but i'll say it a thousand and first people gravitate towards television news which totally shares their world view which means you learn nothing your mind is never cracked open you just sit there nodding your head in agreement being angry at the other guys if you're on the right you watch fox if you're in the left you watch  c if you have not seen anybody seen the movie brainwashing of my dad oh my god you guys one of the greatest documentaries ever i can't think of a woman's name her father is a fairly a political liberal democrat meaning whatever it is it shows the power of biased media to move people and i you know margery eagan is really good at this margery eagan listens to and watches all the stuff that upsets her because her view is you have an obligation to what you know the end of the sentence we all have that obligation or if you just watch white minded coverage and read like minded editorial pages you don't get anywhere you don't convince your friends that maybe they should rethink some of their positions that's the second program thing i'm almost done this will surprise you number eight every president should tweet i know you all hate it i love it not the content all the time we have never in our history known what the leader of this country thinks in real time to me that is hugely valuable you can say some of it's irresponsible not strategic poorly timed whatever i mean that scene set of tweets you know saying after kim jong own said that donald trump was old he said was i'm not going to call him you know what if fatma sure what i could've done without that but i want to know i'm serious i want to know that that's what he's thinking about to say which is that every single member dr harold bornstein anybody who has he was donald trump's doctor who looked like he just came back from woodstock without taking a shower he was the one who said i wrote this down the president down from cells is astonishingly excellent he'll be the healthiest president ever that strains credibility some but what are kaplan's ideas which i embrace wholeheartedly every serious candidate for president and then the president on a regular basis should take physical and psychological tests from independent boards of doctors maybe every year whatever it is we're entitled to know  what the health is and you know when you hear responsible people in congress who you respect and who i think are respected and bipartisan fashion and you hear that they think the president is quote on hinge to quote them and yet he has the power ed markey gets his bill passed to launch a nuclear first strike you say maybe it be nice for independent medical people to let us know whether this is total partisan crap on the part of critics of the president or if it's a serious diagnosis in which case maybe congress should do something about something for a change less thing than to tell you a quick story and they'll take your goals there is i would argue an angel a hopeful note because this is thomas voting with the liberal majority that outlawed racial gerrymander ever know what gerrymandering is tortured construction of congressional districts that do one thing one ensure that the party in power never loses his or her seat and two this is much more serious consequence guarantees that they have no incentive to ever compromise it incentivizes a verb i hate it incentivizes extremism on the part of democrats and republicans because the district is constructed a way that you never really have to deal with anybody else well there's a case now about political gerrymandering before the supreme court again guilty wait for it comes out it was coincidence three straight elections the democrats never won more than thirty nine out of ninety nine seats in the assembly obviously thirty nine or thirty eight percent even when they regularly one of majority of statewide votes think about one of the giardia statewide votes yet because of the gerrymandered district they never had even forty percent of the state legislature the contention of the plaintiffs is this is extreme and unconstitutional gerrymandering the position of justice roberts is that sociological gobbledygook but i have to say a five members of that court in my estimation vote that this political jury mentoring extreme gerrymandering is unconstitutional it will report of the most dramatic changes in our democracy in years and years and years now and i close with a story that i hope i didn't tell you a list i was here but the reason i'm telling you this because somebody who's in the room reference the story and they've heard me tell it fifteen years ago it's all delegation for them and for you and the basic point of this story is when i talk about things reforms that i think make total sense and i know what some of you say i mean how naive is this man to think that any of this is going to i'm not naive despite that one instance i gave you and this hopefully will be proof i met most many of you if i knew you before when i was running a tax reform group in massachusetts during the ninety's and late eighty's ninety's and my opponent i guess you would argue i was her opponent was bob randerson died last year who was the head of citizens for  taxation sort of the doyen of the tax cutting movement and while lot of people had contempt for politically and i did too one of the most relentless citizen activists i've ever met in my whole life and of all of us put as much energy into what we cared about as barbarous and that we wouldn't be in the mess we find ourselves in this country so in a case with a weird i mean she would often say we're different genetic species which we were but i had great respect for any case we would get this was the essence of democracy nine hundred ninety there's a question barbara put on the ballot there would have been the single largest percentage tax cut on the ballot united states history my organization which was all the usual suspects i mean that in a loving way in the tax equity alliance oppose it nobody thought we could win i thought we had no chance to win but the beauty of the campaign was it was the rectum ocracy at its greatest barber and i sometimes would debate a tax ballot question five times a day sometimes we had as many as ten thousand people in an audience for two people to debate what the level of your taxation should be it was unbelievable but i think a since we had so many debates we decided which thoroughly aggravated both of our constituencies we drive in the same car together because then one of us could drive in the other and it separate so this is what after every debate at the last debate of the night when we're driving back  one hand but with two and say barber thank you for saving the taxpayers of massachusetts and i had to sit there with no you know like i had no ego going on it's nice that's really well i mean literally every single time it didn't matter how i did at that debate well we're in greenfield masters and so i'll never forget the sitting in a friendly in i don't know the end of the summer early fall of nine hundred ninety you know how i don't care what you do for a living or did for a living you know how that day everything went exactly as you wanted it to go you know that kind of feeling you all have all my god i did everything i wanted to do i had that day it was the best debate performance of my whole life ever i mean everything i don't know if she was you know or whatever it was everything was perfect we go friendly's a guy starts to walk over the table so totally true story and i go to myself i can't handle the one day i finally got it one hundred percent right he's going to go over to barbara say thank you for saving the taxpayers get her not a one handed handshake but a two handed handshake much to my amazement he comes over to me he shakes my hand not with one hand but with two barber sitting like two feet away and says sir i want to thank you for what you do this whole thank you very much it's really kind of you says no really i could not do what you do i said sir that means a lot to me in his final words were any husband who loves his wife barbara to go out every night there are some low points as well but it is our kids and our grandkids our neighbors and the people we love depend upon it so thank you all for your time and i am more than happy been i think people have to guess what my politics are there's never been a republican candidate for any office in my career we have invited on any of our shows who has said no to my no i mean there may be busy on a particular day there's been very few democrats actually or old wonderful ones as you can a difference of the facts so i have to say i would not he's not at the top of my list but there are other conservative talk show hosts and others like michael graham who was my former colleague who is a pretty regular so park and she presented a whole slate of democratic candidates for congress who have really good possibilities and we're all in your twenty's and thirty's extraordinary people and i hope perhaps you'll consider having her on to talk about this group that she's working for because it is a new generation of people coming along many of them veterans which i find very interesting many women many who are both as well as lots of gender diversity you know gender choice first it's very it's was  fascinating and very helpful for i'm guessing what he said veterans i may be confusing two groups and we turn it is a young woman who's executive director of an organization the name of which i can think of at the moment i'll take a minute the reason i know her is she's the one who convinced private citizen and a guy who did four tours of duty overseas seth mold to run for office what she looks for and maybe what calculus or congresswoman clark is though about is people who have engaged in wonderful moments in recent american democracy the republican richard to say who he introduced him at the victory party the victory breakfast the next day or the next day the guy he denied a seat in congress to a republican introduced the democrat so that was one good thing the other thing which is so aberrational and i hope you read the story couldn't you should google and get home one robins what do you think about the fact that your son never told the voting public that he had won his medals here with his parents that we didn't know already that on there is i'm not saying he doesn't have an it's thirteen states who have already voted that all of their electors must vote for the person who wins the popular vote so you could essentially change the electoral part of the country you could essentially change the electoral college system by state statute rather than being the constitution which is not going to happen i'm not advocating for or against it but for those who are accepted through recent elections the winner became the loser the popular winner who came the loser there are finance reform and i thought he was right on target saying you'll never get to issues you never get to compromise if you're worried about her and now we have it now we don't have it don't you think you got to do that before they ever talk about issues because they're still worried about voters and are only three ways to do it you amend the constitution which is not happening the you appoint supreme court justices and decide to revisit cases little one of these and seeing the amounts of money to go likely but listen if i could wave a magic wand i would argue the single most important thing i could change is what you want change the campaign finance it these people i mean i'm sorry because i'm sure what the vast majority of people  are owned by different constituencies i used to work for a guy john over who was the center of taxation sure in massachusetts the single worst politician who was also the most principled politician i ever met he r for congress in the western part of the state he won and it was like a little boy he would talk of a phone and say you won't believe who came in front of my committee today you're the most famous expert on x and y and about a month later when i spoke on this is every one of them all the talk influenced by a vote by the amount of money it is such an insult to us you are not going to get an appointment with that senator the guy or woman who gives him maybe even only twenty five hundred dollars forget two hundred fifty thousand dollars is going to get reported so even if a politician is a person of principle and is not going to quote sell his or her vote the fact that i have the ability to have that meeting and you don't change is the political dynamic in this country now on the first thing we had proportional representation in cambridge i will knowing i was going to hear i will never explain it except to say this i thought it was great when i was running liberals rather and when i left office after two years i hated every second of it and i'll just tell you why and then if you want to yell at me at some point or send me an email with them talk about it it creates a disincentive for people in your ranks that you rank there were i think around the twenty four candidates for nine positions n in representing your senate is secondly there's a disincentive because all you care about is getting work called number one votes that ever work with any on iran or platform of having a strong mayor in cambridge and the reason for that when the decision maker and then the nine of us or a city councillors pretended that we were the people the power of a city manager can we get one we you know be tough but it was a system of the point of the story was at least five people who were elected supported the concept which is all i needed to get a strong mayor as soon as the none of us took office my support went down from five to three because of my chief issues became the law of cambridge then their number one voters were probably decide that they wanted to move to me so by supporting my good government policy they were undercutting their own things so i know that's really her if you don't believe him it's so grotesque and i do have no evidence of this fact i don't believe that most of those people would have said those things a year ago or two years ago is so crass and  i think that the license that was given in this election is you can say anything anybody you're going to need to hire alan moore and say horrible things so it's not even politics it's the larger community that i think has felt the worst of this new horrible ira and i bow that's not a judgment on him i mean the reality people are independent actors they can act responsibly themselves people who vote while bill sells across lines that should never be crossed have themselves to blame but i think this  permanence and my response to that and by the way i'm inching closer i've never supported them i inch closer of them almost every day when there's not a debate on guns or on whatever it is however i was in the legal services war in the south bronx and i was the president of the union the represented legal services people across the country when ronald reagan proposed the abolition of legal services for the poor the only reason poor still exists is because of a freshman congressman barney frank and the single most brilliant legislator who has ever lived ted kennedy i worked closely with him and ted kennedy was as good as he was in my estimation far too much power now on both sides of the aisle but the reality is the expertise then will lay in the lobbyists what they call gucci gulch which i was in washington will will rest with lobbyist who's been there twenty seven years and who knows the tax code better than the four year legislators having said that i used to say the idea is ridiculous i don't feel that way anymore when by the way if there were a good bit better and if there was a national record as much as most of us love the member of congress who represents us if there was a national referendum permitted to replace all five hundred thirty five of these people i think you'd get nine percent of the vote i think people would say i hate to lose john doe or jane  we've got to start this thing over this is the most dysfunctional body of people ever so my one where the answer is that's exactly what they want they want is a great disruptor i want somebody who hasn't done this because this system is broken if you want to read this sort of indirect answer question the person who i think is the some of the best stories school they could take a vacation and he that lined the rug people ridiculed and your voice resonated with people who think the men were who serve in congress with some wonderful exceptions don't give a damn about that they care about them and so i want to preserve the opportunity if the system is broken again as it is now to be able to say i want john doe or jane doe who has he or she a lot of people  company businessperson i'm not among them i want someone who is wildly competent in some other thing to come in and fix what ails this government and i trust the voters enough even though a lot of people are not happy with their decision i trust the voters enough to be able to make that decision i totally understand where you're coming from but draft something that you think doesn't eliminate some people who you'd probably like to consider running for office yes i sa on both of them said and one was very conservative one quite liberal of course the russians affected your reaction you didn't need to read yesterday about donald trump jr god bless him and that people say you really really can't quantify these things go read a story that was in a lot of outlets last week about wisconsin and vote suppression because of the brilliant work of some of the russian activist for lack of a better expression and why i will not say because i just don't know how much it affected it there's no question there was a passionate desire to affect the outcome and what both these gentlemen said the united see my last question was should we go single day the more i believe it to be true and i don't i haven't seen objective evidence that suggests to me that this country is doing anywhere near enough that's one to present one more thing before you make your next war the thing is most troubling to me about donald trump analogizing intelligent people to nazis in general which he did by the way and when he said he believed putin the other day if your career is the intelligence community and you have dedicated twenty theory thirty years your life to apolitical work to try to protect your fellow men and women in your country and the leader of your country says they believe the words of a former colonel in the k g b more than they do  how do you get work done the next day i know what the answer because as well are committed we're all human if your boss said the meeting frankly you know she does a lot better work than you do and i really believe you and i'm  it in front of all your coworkers what do you can do things that i mean your of your of your quit or if you can't afford to quit your heart's not what so i worry as much not about the real world influence but the psychological impact of this but the voting impropriet some relevant piece or government do more than it is currently doing to try to insulate us from this happening all over again in twenty eight in one forty and beyond and by the way when you see the head of the c you also want to meet with the head of the n s a and the f b i this is the man who not only is the head of the cia but are for ports today are to be believed he will replace rex tillerson as secretary of state this is  so there are a lot of issues having said that there are lot of really honorable people still who hopefully are going to decide the country matters more than their political regions with an individual one more before we  this is also very hard for people in your party to abandon you there's this sort of they don't you know keep in mind while jeff flake and bob corker got a lot of praise the realities of both not running for reelection john mccain has been of you may know that i led the fifth and effort to change our flat income tax in massachusetts through a graduated income tax in one thousand nine hundred four we lost by a narrow seventy to twenty nine margin again it had been on the ballot four times before we thought we had a far cleverer route and we were wrong to get on the ballot to change you may know our constitution mandates a flat tax which is really unusual to have change the constitution so to change a constitution in this state you have to go through two constitutional conventions joint session of the house and senate and  you have to get depending on how you initiate the process either twenty five percent of the voter fifty percent who cares we won we won to get on the ballot but what we're both verini who i did not lobby because he had voted yes on all four prior efforts to amend the state constitution voted no and i went over to him and i said senator bovary mean i saw you voted no we didn't need your vote but i'm troubled that you voted no and i have a feeling it's because i was not respectful enough to lobby you and i have to apologize the reason i didn't lobby you is because you had voted for it four times in the past and i assumed unfairly probably that if you voted for it four times in the past you'd vote it for a fifth time he says no jimmy that had nothing to do with it i said what was it and he said well now that i'm retiring i can finally vote my conscience and it's not even a criticism of senator  statement of reality in the horrible state of politics there are a lot of exceptions to that rule but not enough so any case i'm done please won't listen to radio lebanon two is when he said television every night at seven o'clock and if you want to call us call us e mail us we like angry calls we like happy calls we just like participation and thank you so much for giving me