we seem to hear it every day for the b 1995 or we seem to hear it every day for the b1995 or 1997. that is the fear of the conservative party. this could be an episode that brings the spec for forwarderss and it can be a sense that what we see todayis it can be a sense that what we see today is pretty damaging to how people see mps in our public life the esteem in which it is held and we have the esteem in which it is held and we have seen them breaking rules in parliament we have seen them breaking rules in parliament and it was deemed the case from parliament and it was deemed the case from the standards commission of the case from the standards commission of the house and they said they engaged of the house and they said they engaged in lobbying activity and we also saw engaged in lobbying activity and we also saw friends of other conservative mps rallying behind him, conservative mps rallying behind him, trying to overturn the process and suspend the suspension that th
foreign agent. now, this is an unusual charge. we have only seen it charged about 20 or 10 times in the last 50 years. however, it s being charged increasingly by the justice department because the idea is if somebody is lobbying our government, influencing our foreign policy, our national policy, and they re secretly working for another country, we need to know that. and if we don t know that, that s a national security risk. also, prosecutors have charged barrack with obstruction of justice and making false statements because when he spoke to the fbi he falsely denied his lobbying activity. yeah that is frowned upon. fara is not usually charged. based on the indictment, how strong is the evidence here? yeah, john. this appears to be a very strong case. this indictment goes into substantial detail and much of the evidence here comes from emails and texts that barrack himself sent. now, the indictment alleges, first, that the setup was that barrack would be the only channel to the
letter referring mr. cohen for violating fara for illegal lobbying activity be entered into the record. without objection, so ordered. i asked unanimous consent that the first order of business for this committee is for us to look in a bipartisan way at criminal referrals at the next business meeting. these are not documents. there are objections. so we re objecting to a unanimous consent request? mr. chairman? yes. i will yield back. let me be clear. mr. hies, i m going to give you your whole five minutes in fairness to you. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. meadows, the chairman, the ranking member made me aware that i had given a little more
i ask unanimous consent that my letter referring mr. cohen for violating fara for illegal lobbying activity be enter into the record. without objection. the first order of business for this committee is for us to look at a bipartisan way for criminal referrals at the next business meeting. these are not documents. they re objections. so we re objecting to a unanimous consent request? is that what mr. chairman? yes. i will yield back. all right. let me be clear. i m going to give you your whole five minutes, all right, in fairness to you. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. meadows, the chairman made me a ranking member made me aware that i had given a little
conclusion collusion. again, that s a rudy giuliani, the president s attorney here. everything that mueller has been charged everything he s charged with deals with manafort s work as a non-registered lobbyist or a business operative. the trials last month in virginia.with more of the tax fraud issue, the charges he was facing before he reached a plea agreement this week.with the foreign lobbying activity. sarah sanders and rudy giuliani are right that it doesn t technically deal with the trump campaign and the activities of the president himself. you can t ignore the specter of the russia probe just moving elsewhere all of this as manafort went to trial last month announced developments happen this week. you know from our reporting at the post that particularly last month if there was cable to cable, wall-to-wall coverage on cable tv about this trial we