years ago even passed a bill to get rid of the visa lottery and it didn t go anywhere. tucker: who was lobbying against it? let s put a fine point on this. where is the lobby that wants to preserve something that makes no sense? there is two forces protecting it, one is narrow, one is broader. the narrow one interestingly is the black caucus because they have now come to adopt this as their pet immigration program because a lot of people from sub-saharan africa come through it. that s the kind of narrow issue. tucker: has any policy any single policy in american history hurt african-americans even more? no, it s a good question. african immigration is a problem for black americans.me more broadly, basically our whole political class, because the idea seems to be that immigration must never go down and must always go up. so anything that would cause immigration to go down or cast it in any kind of questionable light has to be resisted no matter what.
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strewn all over the pavement there and people bleeding, you will drive very nicely for thehe next mile or so. then he will speed up again and go right back. that s washington. tucker: as you look around, do you think that influence peddling is as common as it was? absolutely. it is not only common, they are profiting more, the lobbyist and special interests, from the peddling. tucker: people seem much richer in washington than when i came here in 1985. i think that s true as well. i came here in 1981 and it seems to be that the town gets wealthier and wealthier. they say that four of the five top richest counties in the world or in the country of our attached to washington, d.c. f tucker: one of the few people in washington ever to learn something from life. it s great to see you. thanks, tucker. tucker: talk about fighting terror, nbc news appears more concerned with islamophobia. we will tell you how that manifested itself next. ( )
workers comp helps you pay for a replacement. what s happening? this is carla. how s it going? and if anything comes up, our experts are standing by. boo! tucker: if anyone knows the truth about how washington actually works it s jack abramoff. famously a former lobbyist was convicted in the last lobbying scandal about a decade ago. he s been watching the story of paul manafort and the podesta group and mercury public affairs. we asked him to come on to give some perspective. great to see you. one of the charges against paul manafort is that he lobbied one behalf of a foreign government and didn t register as a foreign lobbyist. apparently the podesta group did the exact same thing in the representation of that ukrainian politicians. is that common?ex certainly more common than it should be.
i think it goes on a lot in washington. i saw it when i was a lobbyist. i think frankly, virtually every firm has moments where they touch up against fara. the problem is because it was created so long ago, it was created for the nazis. tucker: it was still created forr them. it still applied only to them.t the problem is that it s not apply to everyone. it is the strictest lobbying law in the land. by not keeping this law and by not seeing people lobbyistpi feel they can get away with whatever they want. tucker: that certainly seems to be the view and washington among people i know. how do people get around it? a lot of them get around it the same way the get around not registering as a lobbyist to begin with, by pretending they are not lobbyists. they say they are public affairy people and things like that. that does not actually take you out of fara. that may take you out of some of the lobbying disclosure act rules, but not fara. they get around it by creating other stru