fact, what he was doing was not really traditional legal advice but was crossing more into sort of the lobbying realm. peter baker, let s talk about lindsey graham. as we said, a veteran water carrier for this president though his remarks today seemed to be fueled by genuine anger and emotion. hard to tell if it s going to turn out to be a mirage in the end. if it s real, will he give other republicans air cover to come out? yeah, i think it is real. i think this is one area where senator graham has longstanding feelings. he s a hawk in the mccain style, of his mentor, specifically about the middle east, the issues of iraq and syria, afghanistan. these are things he s been fighting for and feeling strongly about for many, many years. obviously that overrode his sense of loyalty that he has been expressing about president trump. does it give air cover to others? yeah, i think you saw that today. as you pointed out, two-thirds
was doing was not really traditional legal advice but was crossing over into sort of the more lobbying realm. peter baker, let s talk about lindsey graham. as we said, a veteran water carrier for this president though his remarks today seemed to be fueled by genuine anger and emotion. hard to tell if it s going to turn out to be a mirage in the end. if it s really, will he give other republicans air cover to come out? yeah, i think it is real. i think this is one area where senator graham has long-standing feelings. he s a hawk in the mccain style of his mentor. specifically about the middle east. the issues of iraq and syria, afghanistan. these are something he s been fighting for and feeling strongly about for many, many years. obviously, that overrode his sense of loyalty he s been expressing about president trump. does it give air cover to others? yeah. i think i saw that today. as you pointed out, 2/3 of the house republicans voted to
lobbying or doing some kind of public relations work here in the united states you have to register with the department of justice. you have to make this known. it has to be, you know, out there and there are sanctions for not doing that. that could be one of the areas the southern district is looking into giuliani if in fact what he was doing was not really traditional legal advice but was crossing over oin sort of the more lobbying realm. peter baker, let s talk about lindsey graham. as we said, a veteran water carrier for this president though his remarks today seemed to be fueled by genuine anger and emotion. hard to tell if it s going to turn out to be a mirage in the end. if it s really, will he give other republicans air cover to come out? yeah, i think it is real. i think this is one area where senator graham has long-standing feelings. he s a hawk in the mccain style of his mentor. specifically about the middle east. the issues of iraq and syria, afghanistan. these aring?
before. the coalition of automotive retailers maintains those two licenses should never have been issued in the first place and those were essentially illegal dealerships. so they would say this was never legal in the first place. the auto dealers have a lot of political muscle. i remember covering dodd/frank up on capitol hill. right. and there was a provision they were going to put in to basically change to regulate financing for cars and it was like congress just got lit on fire by the auto dealers. i was like, oh my goodness, i didn t quite realize how strong auto dealers are. yeah, both at the state level and the federal level, auto dealer lobbies have given tens of millions of dollars. tesla has put down less than seven figures. they re getting totally outgunned and also, you know, being a new company, they re relatively inexperienced in the lobbying realm. they ve got i believe one lobbyist who s a former staffer to dianne feinstein. they re really, you know, the aut