Manafort s mysterious financial ties to dmytri firtash and oleg deripaska, federal prosecutors were arguing in court about why it was important to get their hands on firtash, why firtash s case shouldn t be dismissed, why they needed to have him extradited to the united states, why he needed to go on trial in this country. and their claims to the court in the summer of 2017 including this startling assertion from justice department prosecutors. dmytri firtash has been identified by u.s. law enforcement as an upper echelon associate of russian organized crime. his prosecucessecution will dis this organized crime group and prevent it from taking further criminal acts within the united states. this prosecution, therefore, seems to protect this country, its commerce and its citizens from the corrupting influence and withering effects of international organized crime. so this is like a remarkable thing in american politics, right? once again, like, you re alive now. you ll always be able
congress needs to start doing oversight across the board, not just one party, but both. we watched for two years as congress simply did absolutely nothing, then the house changed hands and you have one chamber of congress actually trying to conduct oversight, but the white house has adopted an across-the-board opposition to any kind of oversight. so it really should be a bipartisan effort standing up for really fundamental principles of public service. instead you have 90 members of his own caucus attending events at his hotel the past two and a half years, participating in this corrupting influence in our country. one thing we ve seen in people who do stand up to the president, whether they re career officials with nonpartisan roles as you were as appointees, is it does matter what their situation is. do you believe these extreme activists and temporary
Million off book deals while in government. it would resonate with a lot of swing voters, i imagine this is definitely something a lot of people on both sides of the aisle could potentially identify with. and i know you think this hotel is very nice here. but don t you also see that there is a potential benefit of you going and visiting these properties or do you not think that? well, he s in a unique situation. he is a businessman. we haven t had a businessman with a hotel in washington, d.c. as president of the united states. right. that s why we are asking all of these questions. can we please do away with the fiction that president trump is a businessman. i think the case will be made by democrats that this is a corrupting influence on the government. but, look, donald trump doesn t take a salary from the federal government. he is somebody who, you know, set up that hotel in d.c. not
That will hopefully be talked about this georgetown deal. the first george bush talked about addressing climate change. republicans aren t even acknowledging that climate change is real anymore and, in part, that s that corrupting influence of dark money in our elections. governor, good to see you. thanks for taking time. governor steve bullock, of montana, is a 2020 presidential candidate. and msnbc is teaming up with georgetown university and our daily planet, an independent environmental news organization september 19th and 20th. chris hayes and i will host and moderate a two-day climate forum with the 2020 presidential candidates. president trump has just tweeted. he says we are winning big time against china. companies and jobs are fleeing. prices to have to us have not gone up and in some cases have come down. china is not our problem, though hong kong is not helping. our problem is with the fed. raise too much and too fast. now too slow to cut. spread is way too much as othe
Were having on that debate last night, when we talked about climate, when we talk about income inequality, when we talk about prescription drug prices, when we talk about gun safety, we ve got to recognize that the corrupting influence of outside dollars a billion dollars being spent since citizens united, where decisions are being made because this is what the donors want, not what the people want if we don t address that, it s going to be that much harder to get any of this stuff done and that has been the fight of my career. yeah, and what is your sort of environmental view and view of protecting lands and wildlife and also balancing hunting, again, thinking about your background in montana? well, it s one of these look, we re outdoors folks. i wrote an op-ed quite a while ago when president trump was getting rid of these national monuments. i said, if you really want to see what makes america great, spend a night outdoors. look at our public camps, our public lands becaus