bodies strewn all over the pavement there and people bleeding, you will drive very nicely for the 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. 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 is mama phobia. we will tell you how that
interests in azerbaijan, iraq, south sudan, beyond mark, india, moldova, the communist government of vietnam, among others. according to our sources they were unofficially lobbying for the sultan of brunei, and autocrat accused of human rights abuses. in each case the podesta group made the case for those countries in front of american members of congress and their staffs. which members did they talk to? what did they get in return? we don t know. because as we said, congress won t tell us. they don t have to. they make the laws. we do know the scale of foreign lobbying in washington is breathtaking. in 2013, that the last year for which we have numbers, the top ten highest spending countries at the top 10 million was spent by live washington, d.c. around the world, foreign interests know the fastest to wy to get things done is to pay for it, and boy did they pay for it. just count in russia and other post-soviet states, at least 440
certainly more common than it should be. i saw it when i was a lobbyist. i think frankly, virtually every firm has moments where they touch up against pharaoh. the problem is because it was created so long ago, it was created for the nazis. it still applied only to them. 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 lobbyist 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 affairs 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
the chairman and the vice chairman writing a letter to abby and jared kushner, abby, his attorney, saying we learned about your private e-mail account in the news media. they re not happy, they use the term concerned, when senators use that, it means angry. check to make sure that everything that could be possible to the russian inquiry has been turned over to us on that account or any other account or any messaging apps, et cetera. also not a good look. well, if you go back and look at every single crisis that has metastasized in the history of washington, one of the main variables involved was that people thinking that they could just manage information in a drip, drip fashion. and you just cannot. the white house has and mr. kushner has to work very vigorously to make sure that he is getting all of this information out as much as possible, to those folks up on capitol hill. and does his best to explain it. because if it continues to be a drip drip, it s going to hurt
a imminent. but then again the question becomes is this what the republican party wants to spend their time doing in 2018. in a town where out in america and around the world people say why can t they do more than one thing at a time? we know the history of washington. they can t. one of the interesting parts is the president saw the backlash and no, i m getting the wall. i ll insist on the wall. the deal the framework of the deal with the democrats let s dot d.r.e.a.m.ers first and then i ll worry about the wall and made conservatives mad. fountain president was cutting that deal get something for it and get and force the democrats to sign out on the wall money and they are mad. this is the white house legislative director the president says he ll get hit wall. define wall. i think that what the definition of a wall is something we need to have a serious conversation. some cases a ballard fence which was, in fact, appropriated last year and we already begun.