Using Views with References

I currently have two content types.

Content Type 1: Videos

Content Type 2: Politicians

The main Videos content type references the Politicians content type as a way of "tagging" Politicians that can be seen in the videos. What I'd like to do on each Video node is create a view that shows all other video nodes that have the same Politicians referenced within them. For some reason I cant seem to get it to work. This is what I have so far.

Create a view block with title field from the Video id like to see

Create a relation to the Politicians field with a reverse

Create a filter based on Content NID

For some reason when i go to a Video node I dont see any results at all. In fact I don't even see the video of the node I'm currently on.

If I change the relation to Politicians field without the reverse I only see the same node that I'm currently on. I should be seeing all videos with the same politician. What am I doing wrong here? I've been pulling my hair out all week with this.

Keep in mind I wont be switching to Entity Reference module since this is a large legacy project. Thanks!