When I served on the anti-corruption task force in Afghanistan, I saw what it looks like when a culture of corruption takes hold in a country. The public loses all trust, a small group of well-connected people benefit, and everyone pays a heavy price. 

Today, we’re witnessing the most brazen corruption in our nation’s history. The President is enriching himself, his family, and his friends at the public’s expense every day, enabled by a small group of ultra-wealthy individuals, corporations, and even foreign governments that are all-too-happy to buy influence. Meanwhile, industry Super PACs have flooded our political system with money that keeps Congress from making the big changes we need. 

We need to cut that corruption out like a cancer.

That means overturning Citizens United to get dark money out of politics, restricting the President’s unlimited pardon power, and rolling back the sweeping immunity that the Supreme Court has given the President. Doing it right will take a Constitutional amendment, and we need to fight to do it right.

And we need to get to work immediately to tighten ethics rules, enforce the law without fear or favor, ban Congressional stock trading, and ensure that no one — not presidents, not billionaires, not public officials — is above the law.