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Aspen Ideas Festival
Money and Politics
Season 1
Episode 63
Facing the 2016 election and anticipating well over $1 billion raised to fund campaign coffers, is this the way to run a democracy? Ted Olson defended Citizens United; David Boies (no role in the suit) hotly debates it.
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