Discussion on Political Accountability with David Sirota (Part 2)

Responsibility to use that investigatory power to hold accountable those who have been breaking the law. If they don't do that, I would expect there to be a backlash. And if they don't have a broad aperture to look at how corporate America, its predatory practices and its corruption, both with the Trump administration and outside of it, if they, they have to use that power to put all of that in on the investigatory table or, or, or again, we'll, we'll be here in two or public saying, you didn't do that and now we're voting you out of office. And, and just to draw the, the link between the, the Jefferies conversation and, and this to underline your point about the way that he stacked this committee of AI people. One of them was, as you guys reported, was Valerie, Valerie Fouche. So Valerie Fouche had won with millions of dollars of APAC support two cycles ago against, or maybe three cycles ago against Nita Alam. And she knew, or she suspected that Nita may be challenging her again. But she also understood that AIPAC was becoming extremely toxic in her district. So she publicly said, I'm not taking any more AIPAC money. But that creates a problem. If you don't have grassroots support, you need big money. So Jeffries puts her on this AI panel. That's right. And all of this AI super PAC money floods in. So congratulations. Good. She's not taking APAC money, but she's, you know, money's money. And she ends up winning by like 150 votes or that, you know, very, like, she's, she survived. But if those are the folks that you're putting up in the top positions of power, and then the AI companies come in and say, well, why don't you look at Trump rather than us? And that's who is in that position. I'm like, okay, yeah, that's good idea. Why? You know, you, you were pretty friendly to me last time around. A couple million dollars literally saved my election. Like, without that, she's not in Congress at all. And Jeffries, in order to pull off a calculated move like that, has to understand that that's the result of it. I mean, I mean, I, I would argue maybe that's the deliberate result of it. That, that's actually, that's actually what he wants, the whole point. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Like, that is. Yeah. I mean, it takes the idea of the, I mean, the very, I mean, it's been around forever. The idea of the, you know, the Banking Committee chairperson or subcommittee chairperson raises lots of money from the banks. Right. I mean, it's sort of. Sort of.