To you and are of practical importance. If youre in this area or youre getting into this area. Basically, i want to cover not each to the same extent, but five different areas. The lobbying disclosure act, you already have some familiarity with with the previous presentations and particularly professor therbers presentation now. The registration act. The ethics rules, i know you touched on to some extent in the prior session. Revolving door, again, professor therber talked about some of the reforms its made in the 2007 law, but well get into the substance. And then just quickly some of the selfimposed or voluntarily implemented restrictions that the Obama Administration placed relating to lobbyists. So in terms of understanding how the lobbying disclosure act works, its a little bit weird because the registration is done by an organization or by a firm a lobbying firm or law firm, but its triggered in the first instance by an activity by an individual employee of either an organization
Became the newest member of the billionaire newspaper owners club when he scooped up the Washington Post for a cool quarter billion dollars. He joins a growing list which includes among others. And so who cares . Newspapers are dying anyway, right . Not so fast, a 2009 report showed that not only do 75 of adults still read newspapers, but local and online news overwhelmingly originates from traditional papers like the Washington Post. So most americans newspaper still originates there. The idea that newspapers have been marginalized and replaced by the internet is a total fallacy. They have the kind of power that Charles Foster cane dreamed of. People will think what i tell them to think. David and alex wrote today. Jeff bezos is a man who can afford that kind of influence. The Purchase Price of a quarter billion dollars is less than 1 of his 28 billion net worth. So is he just bored, a rich guy buying a new toy . His company is definitely politically engaged. Under his leadership, ama
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Hes an msnbc and msnbc National Affairs analyst. Im like madonna at this point. I gave you one name. Some day youll thank me. Well talk about that later. Daily beast politics editor sam stein is here and my friend steve schmidt. Were going to boil you down to one name, too. Take us through the significance of this sort of i think its just a side show. People have told me that from emmet flood to don mcgahn to Rudy Giuliani to everyone who is now departed the president s team, no one thinks the president can survive an interview with the special counsel. The president cant survive twitter. Thats right, special counsel is now looking at his tweets. Every tweet has a misstatement or a lie, so theyre absolutely right to be concerned that if the president were to go into an interview with incredibly well prepared prosecutors who have not just the president s tweets and his own statements, as Rudy G
From him ripping off American Indian tribes to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. And in communications with his fellow lobbyists who were working on this scheme with him, lots of the people he was working with on this were former republican congressional staffers. It would emerge in Court Documents over the course of this scandal that they would frequently deride and insult the native americans they were ripping off in their scheme by calling them morons and troglodytes, and they would sort of laugh and screech among themselves about how much they loved ripping off these tribes and taking all their money. One of the signature moves in this abramoff scheme was that he was secretly paying socalled Christian Conservative leaders, guy likes landfall reed from the Christian Coalition and lou sheldon from the traditional values coalition, abramoff and these guys would pay these christian groups to gin up antigambling activism. And then abramoff, having paid for that, he would swoop in
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu glamts group for the kidnapping and killing can of three israeli teenagers. He says hamas must continue to pay for the murders and israel must forcibly attack. We will develops coverage of that as well as the crisis in iraq and we begin within Senior International correspondent ben wedeman in jerusalem. Tell us how tense the situation in israel is right now. Brianna, its very tense, even here in jerusalem, i was witness to a march by several hundred israelis in the center of the city, offfa road, where they were chanting death to the arabs. They were Israeli Police some on motorcycles, some on horses trying to keep them under control but it gives you an idea of the level of anger and passion that you can see just in the streets far from not far from where im standing. In addition to that, new details are emerging about the kidnapping of the three israeli teenagers whose bodies were found yesterday. Translator we lower our heads in deep pain and sorrow.