With significant bipartisan climate legislation. And after 2010, you see that heartbeat of bipartisan activity flatline. If you look at what happened in early 2010 that might explain why it suddenly ended, you find a Supreme Court decision called Citizens United that allowed unlimited corporate money, unlimited billionaire money, to bombard our politics. And what people often think about that is that, oh, they all came in and they beat up the democrats on behalf of the republicans. And this is a partisan thing. But ive heard over and over from republican colleagues, what are you complaining about . They are spending more money against us and they are spending against you. And there have been times i believe when actually the unaccountable anonymous dark money that Citizens United unleashed was being spent more in republican primaries and against republicans than it was against democrats. That i think has suppressed debate, and have a corrosive effect on our politics, what was for many,
University, if you dont have your heart set on working in the u. S. Government or if youre retired. [laughter] but its hard to find people inside the Foreign Policy establishment who are willing to say what they think on this issue out loud. Just look at how chuck hagel and Samantha Power had to contort themselves during their confirmation hearings, and you see the lob bys continued lob bys continued influence. And please dont forget were still a long way from a deal with iran or a twostate solution, and the lobby will be working 24 7 to make sure that the United States doesnt do anything israel doesnt want. In short, reports of the lobbys demise have been greatly exaggerated, and given that fact, what do i think we ought to do about it . Ill just give you, i hi, four basic lessons here. Lesson number one, its just politics, stupid. First lesson i would emphasize is this is all about politics. Israel lobby is powerful because it has all the features that make an Interest Group powerful
5 00 a. M. Here on the u. S. East coast. It is the memo in a everyothat talking about. And does it discredit the Russia Investigation . Congressional supporters of the u. S. President are being accused of trying to do just that. They allege that the fbi improperly targeted for surveillance a former Trump Campaign adviser. The contents of the controversial memo are highly disputed. Critics say it only on shows part of the picture. And misrepresents the testimony of former fbi Deputy Director andrew mccabe. Here is more now from jim sciutto In Washington. I think it is terrible. Reporter the president and republicans leveling a new broad side at the fbi. With a four page memo alleging the bureau abused its Surveillance Authority in seeking a warrant to monitor carter page during the 2016
election. Its been a tough fight. Reporter the disputed memo authorized by the staff of devin nunes Claims Mccabe says the page warrant would not have been sought without a dossier on trumps possible con
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That all the other democrats mulling iran could beat trump in 2020. Joining me is Jonathan Martin of the New York Times. When will we know if biden is running or not . Well, thanks for having me. I think well know something within the next month. Thats according to numerous biden supporters who say that he does recognize the need to make clear his plans this time. They are acutely sensitive to the criticism that he got four years ago when he dragged out his deliberations for some time and then obviously did not run. And i think they want to make a decision here either way in the next few weeks. I will tell you from our reporting the conversations of the former Vice President had over the holidays, and he and his wife were in the Virgin Islands and he was working the phones. The folks that talked to him said they came away thinking he is, in fact, leading toward running. Interesting. And im wondering about the timing of this article coming out the same weekend that Elizabeth Warren is b