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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — A large taxable astatine the Democratic National Convention is the party's pledge to spell aft firm terms gouging, but NewsNation's Chris Cuomo says the power corporations play successful authorities is conscionable arsenic the aforesaid connected the near arsenic it is connected the right.
"This is not unsocial to Democrats. There is simply a crippled of money. When radical speech astir uniparty, we are strangled by the wealth world successful our politics,” Cuomo said Wednesday.
From the level of the United Center, wherever the normal is taking spot successful Chicago, Cuomo looked up astatine the firm suites of the United Center, the spaces that outgo companies hundreds of thousands of dollars. He blasted Democrats for pledging to spell aft corporations implicit terms gouging, stating that it's astir laughable erstwhile the leaders of corporations are "literally" looking down connected the enactment faithful.
“The astir unsafe wealth successful authorities is present ineligible wealth due to the fact that of Citizens United,” Cuomo said, referencing a 2010 Supreme Court determination that ruled the First Amendment prohibits the authorities from restricting corporations from governmental spending. “The thought that they tin combat against it is astir laughable.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, who has proposed a prohibition connected terms gouging to trim the costs of groceries and different goods for Americans, will accept the Democratic Party's information for president Thursday.
Cuomo described a transactional narration betwixt lawmakers and large corporations seeking to unafraid concern interests nether the caller statesmanlike administration, though helium didn't specify immoderate companies.
“You deliberation there’s similar a teacher radical up successful there? You deliberation it’s similar the Cub Scouts of Columbia County, South Carolina, that’s up successful those boxes?" helium said. "They paid $500,000, $700,000 a million, a cardinal and a fractional (dollars) to person those seats, they get edifice suites that are astir apt talented to the party.”
Cuomo added that NewsNation didn't reserve a abstraction successful 1 of the suites, dissimilar different media outlets that sent reporters to screen the convention.
“Why bash you deliberation I’m connected the floor? NewsNation is not a broke company. (NewsNation genitor company) Nexstar is simply a monolithic organization," Cuomo said, adding, “We are firm media. We don't person 1 of those boxes due to the fact that that's the crippled you wage to play."
