blumenthal: thank you. senator klobuchar: we were talking on break there about this disengagement issue, and i am following up on the senate's questions. i pointed out that while you can have a negative ad, that's not exactly what mr. wylie is referring to about this engagement. you have blatant examples about ads that were bought with russian money or through other parties from this last election that actually are blatant criminal violations because they tell people to vote, save time, avoid lines, and text 35423, and you can vote. do you consider that disengagement? >> that seems terrible. senator klobuchar: i wanted to clear up that there are gray areas. there are areas that you probably would think are just persuasion. that there are areas that are purely illegal. but of course, using foreign money to influence an election is illegal on its face to begin with. he would agree with that? mr. wylie: i agree. senator klobuchar: thank you. mr. wylie, in addition to the improper access by cambridge analytica,

. >> senator blumenthal? sen. blumenthal: thank you, mr. chairman.welcome to you all and thank you for being here. mr. wylie, are you aware of conversations between cambridge analytica executives and any representatives of the russian government or people associated with the russian government? mr. wylie: i'm aware of meetings that the company had with luke oil, which has close connections with the russian government. sen. blumenthal: are those conversations documented anywhere in any letters or emails or any other kinds of evidence? mr. wylie: there are documents pertaining to the conversations and presentation made to luke oil, and i have passed on those documents to the authorities. sen. blumenthal: to this committee? mr. wylie: not yet to this committee, no. sen. blumenthal: would you be willing to provide them to this committee? mr. wylie: i will consult my lawyers as to the best way to get you the information. sen. blumenthal: thank you. during your time at cambridge analytica, my understanding is you were aware of the founders or funders, incl

blumenthal introduced the case in 1998 when he was connecticut's attorney general. that is live monday, starting at noon eastern on c-span. >> crews in puerto rico are still working to restore power after damage created by hurricane maria lester. on capitol hill, the senate energy and national resources to me held a hearing. along with the ceo of the puerto rico power authority on how much power has been restored. >> good morning, the committee will come to order. we are here today to learn more about the work that has been completed, the work that is still underway as we seek to restore electricity to the people rigo -- the people of puerto rico and discuss moving forward. so much remains to be accomplished. we will also take a close look at the proposal to reform the islands energy sector, such as the governor's proposal with regards to the puerto rico electric power authority and the puerto

means for media's coverage may have messed up we are joined today by all there and journalist max blumenthal thank you so much for days max now at least as i said earlier sixty people there were killed in protests on monday and human rights groups are saying that just because protestors were approaching crossing or damaging the fence on the gaza israeli

were thrilled to welcome senator blumenthal to the podium. [applause] . . . for having us today and organizing this important gathering, and also to all of the experts who've been here before me. i am sure they have exhausted the topic and your patience and i think i am one of them left as the talk of closing arguments this is it and i'm going to be very brief and if there are any questions, i'd be happy to take any. i want to sort of bring back on a somewhat personal note my experience as attorney general. bill clinton once said it's the best job you can ever have because when you do something that's popular you get tremendous credit. the lawsuit against microsoft was actually not popular as some of you might recall, microsoft and windows were an immensely attractive and popular product. bill gates was and is a visionary and a genius and successful business person. so, talk about taking on 800-pound gorillas this was it and it wasn't like big tobacco cigarettes kill people and windows, microsoft and the browser were regarded as wonderful improvements a quali

we appreciate senator hatch and blumenthal coming to join us later. so, we leave a few minutes left for questions. fair warning, scott has not been hesitant. for the interest of time rather than passing the microphone, if you will holler the question i will do the best i can to repeat it. not necessarily for the general but for the digital purposes. >> the question was regarding missouri, our colic, earlier this year announced that he was opening an investigation. his talking points were essentially taken straight from the letter that you and the general sent to the ftc. the communicating about that? i know you can't comment about the confidentiality between states but what are your thoughts? >> i thought that was a bold action on his part. he came out swinging and clearly asserting that google was a monopolist that it's kind group's was having a detrimental impact on both businesses and individuals. when i saw the complaint i reached out to the general we had a pleasant conversation. since that cut time, stats have staff has been interacting. i'm wat

>> i think john roberts highlight that richard blumenthal did say it wasn't the case. however, we know there is a d.o.j. opinion from 1999 which does say that a sitting president cannot be indicted. it don't mean the president is out of the woods here because even if there is no indictment, he could make an impeachment referral to congress and which was really the proper avenue in which these types of things should be litigated. the president of the united states was elected. our elected body would be the one to try him for the high crime and misdemeanor if there was such a thing found by special counsel. >> there is still the question whether or not the president will sit down for an interview with robert mueller. >> that's right. rudy giuliani said on fox news that other lawyers would think he was an idiot for allowing the president to submit to an interview. if this is the avenue where they can get it wrapped up the fastest it's route they'll go down. a lot of things to be discussed here as to whether the president will sit down for a two-hour period. whether he wil

i'll speak with richard blumenthal of the judiciary committee and our correspondents are standing by with full coverage. but straight to the chief white house correspondent jim acosta, the president is talking tough about iran and may soon be talking directly with north korea. >> that is right. just as president trump is trying to deescalate tensions with north korea and welcoming home the american prisoners detained by the regime, he is ramping up the rhetoric on iran and did so today and warning of severe consequences as he put it if tehran reactivated the nuclear program and he may find them to be tough negotiators, something candidate trump talked about during the campaign. >> closing in on what may be the biggest reality tv moment of his life, president trump is nailing down plans for a summit with north korean dictator kim jong-un. >> they're just working out amainments. >> will it be at the dmz. >> it will not. >> reporter: while celebrating the arrival of three prisoners released by north korea and on the way home. >> right now, flying back are three what they were calling ho

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you said that senator blumenthal said it. it's why we have divestment rules and why you don't have previous president who'ses have business interests because anytime the president takes action, you're going to question the legitimacy of it. >> final question for you, nick. slightly adjacent to this, you have a story you broke with your colleague about the fbi now investigating cambridge analytica, the notorious firm that was hired by the trump campaign run by conservative billionaire robert plerser or backed by him. what have you learned about that. >> the fbi and the justice department have opened what may be a separate investigation from the mueller probe into cambridge analytica and concurrent with an investigation by the uk version of the fbi. and they're looking at financial practices, at data practices, at violation of european data laws on the uk side. this appears to be new. they've been making the rounds of financial institutions that have done business with cambridge analytica talking to ex-employees. we thought the

blumenthal: i want to talk about privacy. punishment never fits the likeliest outcome, emerging tech companies will approach enforcement as nothing more than the cost of doing business. you were commenting on the penalties against snapchat over nothing morees, than the cost of doing business. apparently the same was true of facebook as we now learned from the recent revelations about cambridge analytica. about privacyules enforcement that congress should impose at this point? have we learned our lesson? and, the general data protection regulation -- everyone in europe is now going to have to follow that. be her andamericans he blessed privacy than europeans -- be guaranteed less privacy than europeans? morgan: that comment from four years ago makes me sound smart. it is still true today. one of the things congress and this committee can do because it is still true today. i think one of the things congress can do, this committee in particular, i think we are about to have a full slate of ftc commissioners. they need to look at

for media's coverage of may have messed up we are joined today by all their end journalists max blumenthal thank you so much for day max now at least as i said earlier sixty people there were killed in protests on monday and human rights groups are saying that just because protesters were approaching crossing or damaging the fence on the gaza israeli border does not amount to life lost or serious injuries so much do you think israel was out of wind and use excessive force here you know i think we really have to consider the feelings from the israeli perspective of that sense i mean the poor electrified fence the poor. militarized walls that actually are perched with machine guns remote controlled machine guns you know that's really what we're hearing from the likes of the washington post editorial board which referred to those fifty eight people who were killed shot by snipers with leeds laser range finders from long range at some points as nominal civilians nominal civilians not even civilians so of course israel used excessive force but what i want to do is kind of interrogate the contex

joining us now to share his thoughts is richard blumenthal of connecticut.on the judiciary committee. senator, is rudy giuliani right? a u.s. president cannot be indicted? >> first, alisyn, let me just say that when robert mueller is ready to announce his own conclusion about whether a sitting united states president can be indicted, i think he will do it for himself, not through rudy giuliani, so i'm somewhat dubious that the special counsel has articulated this position through former mayor giuliani. >> just to clarify for our viewers, giuliani said this morning that he was in touch with robert mueller's assistants in the office and they said that they would follow department of justice guidance, which is and the precedent is, but i want to get your take, a sitting u.s. president cannot be indicted? >> and that's the real point here. the department of justice guide lines say that a president cannot be indicted. it has never been tested in court. there's no precedent for it. i will grant you that there are a lot of legal scholars who say that a president ca

blumenthal accusing donald jr. of lying. that would be a felony. >> look. the democrats want to make a lot about the meeting, which no real information ever came out of. they never want to talk about the fact that simpson was meeting with the russian lawyer who was in the meeting. he met with her before and after the meeting in new york. that has been reported. they never talk about that. >> harris: fusion g.p.s. >> right. the group paid for by the clinton campaign and the democratic national committee to put together the dossier who hired christopher steele. i have not read the transcript. i just came out today. i think there is a lot of other important information we need to get. that is why we have sent a letter to the president today, harris, asking to get some of the key information they repeatedly denied us getting access to. >> harris: can we take a pause on that for a second? i want to illuminate what you are talking about. if democrats are saying that donald trump jr. and others are lying about the meeting where does it get us? you say there is inf

richard blumenthal also serves on the committee and he joins us now. thanks for being with us. how do you read the justice department is asking the inspector general now to look into the fbi and the department of justice tactics concerning the trump campaign. >> it's a concession to the president. a potentially dangerous concession. >> dangerous how so? >> well, number one, the president is obviously trying to interfere with an investigation. it happens to be an investigation of him. so it's a threat. number two, there is no factual support. you said there wasn't a lot of facts to back it up. that's a charitable way of looking at it. there is no evidence to support an investigation. the fbi was conducting a counterintelligence investigation against russian attempts to interfere with our election. in fact they warned the trump campaign about that effort to interfere with the trump campaign and the clinton campaign well before any of this stuff happened. and so the precedent is very dangerous that an investigation will be launched simply because a president wants to stop an inves

i spoke exclusively with senator blumenthal about what is now plan b.rtisan effort to try and circumvent some of the reasons that mcconnell and other conservatives gave for nixing this. here's their argument. their argument is that hampering the president's ability to hire and fire, hovering over his personnel decisions is unconstitutional. a number of members including republicans disagree with that. nevertheless, that's where we are. so this new attempt would be to simply talk about transparency. robert mueller is not operating under the same principles that previous special counsels did. for instance, ken starr had a statute that said congress got to see the product of his work. we don't have that with mueller. which means in a worst case scenario this investigation could never be seen by the public or by congress. so this new legislation would ensure that wherever this goes the public, congress gets a look at it. it would ensure that if mueller were pushed aside he could release his work. and it would ensure that if mueller started to feel like he w

as such it is a pleasure for me to be here in the pleasure alongside senator blumenthal who has been here as you can imagine we do not line up on every issue we face in the senate but i admire his commitment a free and fair and competitive with the markets and isolate his efforts with that effort in the senate. i could go further to discuss the microsoft case but let me take you back 20 years 1998 to the dawn of the digital age and with the.com bubble context is key to explain my position to hold microsoft to account. in the late 19 '90s they can do no wrong. but at the time all tech companies walked on water make our lives infinitely better put us into the future we could only dream of that was the country's feeling toward silicon valley at the time but the same feeling that the sense of speculation that led to the internet bubble a few years later. in 1998 if tech joined -- her reign supreme and microsoft was king. i was among the few skeptics at the time one among a tiny handful of legislators that questioned those invaluable contributions but we were wary of the monopoly practice

blumenthal: thank you. we wereklobuchar: talking on the brakes -- break there about this disengagement issue, and i pointed out that while you can that's nottive ad, exactly what mr. wylie is referring to about this engagement. you have blatant examples about ads that were bought with russian money or through other parties from this last election that actually are blatant criminal violations, because they tell people to vote -- to save time or a vote the lines 23, and you can vote. do you consider that disengagement? mr. wylie: that seems terrible. senator klobuchar: i wanted to clear up that there are gray areas. there are areas that you probably would think are just persuasion. and there are areas that are pure ev all, but of course, using foreign money to influence an election is illegal on its face to begin with. mr. wylie: i agree. senator klobuchar: thank you. to theie, in addition improper access by cambridge analytica, we heard about the misuse of user data by other analytics firms which sold data i

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joining us to talk about this and more we have democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut.thanks for being here. >> great to be with you. >> so giuliani's newest version of events is that when he himself saw in whatever financial records there are that president trump had been paying michael cohen $35,000 a month as a retainer, he, giuliani, said aha, there is the reimbursement. and in fact kristen welker of nbc spoke to giuliani last night and tweeted this at midnight. giuliani said he made the president aware of paperwork that showed payments were actually reimbursements for stormy and that's when the president replied, oh, my goodness, i guess that's what it was for. gee whiz! i inserted the gee whiz. what do you make of that version of that events? >> gee whiz! i have a lot of trouble believing that version of events. it's clearly damage control, but i think it's going to backfire because there are records that have been seized from michael cohen. and those documents and bank statements and recordings of conversations if there are any are going to tell a very compelling

senators he had war markky, richard blumenthal payments may have been paid to influence the presidentut the companies going on record to get trump insight into thinking on key issues. author of the brand new book which you can preorder on amazon right now as we speak, "the russian hoax." the illicit scheme to clear hillary clinton and frame donald trump. gregg jarrett here. >> good to see you. trish: isn't that legal, right, for them to hire a consultant that may have insight into how this administration would approach certain issues? doesn't that, i mean, maybe, it is unseemly but, it happens, right? >> happens all the time. especially when there is a new president, a new administration, companies who want to get the ear of the president, or the administration, will pay people who know him to be, quote, unquote, consultants. if michael cohen was actually actively lobbying either congress or any executive agency, then he has to be registered as a lobbiest. if he is simply offering his insights, his advice, his ideas, that is perfectly legal. so there is nothing wrong with that. trish:

applause] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] >> it's an honor to have richard bill blumenthal. prior to this position he served an unprecedented five terms us attorney general fighting for people against special interests. his law-enforcement includes environmental stewardship, personal privacy subtree ship the role of state attorneys general's nationwide and resulted in the recovery of hundreds of millions ool

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for more, i'm joined by democratic senator richard blumenthal, member of the senate judiciary committee. are you confident that american foreign policy isn't being essentially auctioned off at this point? >> all the indications are in fact that this administration has a for sale sign at the door, not only domestically but also in its foreign policy. stakes couldn't be higher. after all, president poroshenko is seeking access to the white house through the fixer, through a payment to michael cohen because he needs trump on his side to defend his country literally under the threat of russian invasion through their proxy. so his democracy and future are at stake. and he comes to trump seeking favor and then very, very importantly, drops the official investigation of paul manafort and shuts down cooperation by his government with the special counsel. so the links go deeper and deeper here. and this whole administration has a culture and a modus operandi of pay to play and influence peddling, the fish rots from the head because trump himself through his own organization is receiving benefits

blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i request by unanimous consent that my legislative fellow collin anderson be granted floor privileges until the end of jun. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, only in washington, d.c., and perhaps only in the walls of this capitol, is net neutrality regarded as a partisan issue. only here are there accusations that the left or the right favor a position on net neutrality. and the rest of america, net neutrality is bipartisan. in fact, nonpolitical. it is the lifeblood of the internet. it is the animating principle that enables companies and individuals to have equal access to the internet without blocki blocking, discriminating, price gouging, or favoring of some companies at the expense of others. in fact, in legislatures across the country like connecticut's, there have been proposals to do there what we are seeking to do here. that is, to preserve an open internet in accordance with the open internet order w

democratic senator richard blumenthal told nbc news that lawmakers in the senate are cooking up a plannd of last-ditch break glass in case of emergency effort to make sure the mueller investigation can continue to run its course unimpeded. even if rod rosenstein ultimately does get fired. this plan has support from both sides of the aisle. it's a logistical hail mary to keep the mueller investigation bulletproof, even if there is no robert mueller or rod rosenstein, to keep it going. so what would that look like? and would it work? joining us now is heidi przybilla, the nbc news national political reporter who broke this story today about shielding the mueller investigation. heidi, great to have you here. good evening. >> good evening. >> tell us what this plan is that democrats and i suppose some republicans have cooked up. >> right. so as you know, joy, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell nixed plan a. plan a is a bipartisan bill that, by the way, has the support of many republicans who are not known as the typical centrist reaching across the aisle like charles grassley. neverthe

richard blumenthal who was a prosecutor and is now a senator from connecticut was making your point. i want to see if your point is the same as his. let's play it from earlier this morning here on this network. -- we don't have that? okay. well, basically, he did argue -- he argued that this absolutely could happen. that -- and he also made the argument that the reason not to indict is based to an precedent that's 45 years old and could perhaps be looked at differently. >> there is no precedent. the only thing you have is two opinions from the legal counsel's office and the justice department. and they really kneel at the feet of the president. there has never been any precedent in terms of prosecution. in fact, what we have is the constitution itself, which never says one word about you can't prosecute a president. interestingly, the framers. constitution gave immunity from prosecution to members of congress. so we know they can't be prosecuted for anything they say on floor of the house or the floor of the senate in debate. we know the framers knew how to give immunity when they wa

idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons investigative journalism max blumenthal told us that the current us attitude towards asylum shows that the american authorities well are afraid of him. us has refused to speak to julian assange except under duress under harsh conditions possibly after solitary confinement which shows that they don't want to know what julian us knows they don't want to interrupt their narrative with with what could be facts almost no one in washington in the press corps will stand up and defend julian assange as a fellow journalist who is facing some of the harshest conditions any journalist in the west is facing because he embarrassed the u.s. government and he embarrassed the cia and we should also remember that there is no grand jury for julian a son is for the d.n.c. hack or leak or whatever it was it only relates to the revelation internal cia documents so this is a case that sets a precedent for the rest of the media and how other journalists will be treated if they reveal classified information and it seems like there's very little co

democratic senator from connecticut richard blumenthal sits on the senate judiciary committee. senator, you're hearing these pieces start to come out from the likes of senator warner, senator mcconnell, congressman schiff. have you heard anything about the briefing? >> i know with great certainty about the briefing, that it broke all the norms of grand jury secrecy, of rules protecting covert intelligence sources for there to be any disclosure to anyone at those meetings. and let's be very clear. this presence of the white house, not the white house counsel, but the white house in the sense of the president's personal lawyer -- >> right, representing on the russia investigation, which is what the briefing's about fundamentally. >> representing him personally. >> yes. >> not the white house counsel, but john kelly, the white house chief of staff, and the president's personal lawyer, really is like a gut punch to federal law enforcement. it says, we're going to enable the president personally to obtain information. the fear was that information would be funneled secretly to the p

. >> joining me right now is senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. he is a member of the senate judiciary committee. betsy woodruff is politics reporter for daily beast and an msnbc contributor. and paul lbutler is a former federal prosecutor and an msnbc analyst as well. always start with the center on this question. is rudy giuliani being clever like a fox? is he raising the noise level and keeping the stormy story all over the news 24/7 now, to distract the subject, distract everybody from the russian probe which is the real danger the president is facing, or is he just doing it wrong? because he is supposed to put this story behind the president, and he is putting it out every night and pushing it forward. >> i think he is doing the president a disservice. whether he means it as a distraction, he has certainly put the president in a very, very precarious position politically as well as legally. he has directly contradicted him and his denials of reimbursement. he has in effect joined him more closely with michael cohen. >> yeah. >> in a bed of qu

idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons investigative journalist up next blumenthal told us that a saunders activities make officials in washington the. us has refused to speak to julian assange except under duress under harsh conditions possibly after solitary confinement which shows that they don't want to know what julian assange knows they don't want to interrupt their narrative with with what could be fact almost no one in washington in the press corps will stand up and defend julian assange as a fellow journalist who is facing some of the harshest conditions any journalist in the west is facing because he embarrassed the u.s. government and he embarrassed the cia and we should also remember that there is no grand jury for julian assigned for the d.n.c. hack or leak or whatever it was it only relates to the revelation of internal cia documents so this is a case that sets a precedent for the rest of the media and how other journalists will be treated if they reveal classified information and it seems like there's very little concern about that within the journali

american journalist mark blumenthal believes lobbying in the united states is a way of corruption covered up as business. but you get kind of a a cook narrative that leaves out the real source of corruption in washington which is our allies buying influence and taking american policy over the brink in the middle east foreign governments are paying billions of dollars into think tanks. lobbying firms and even hollywood in order to curry favor in the us the term collusion can certainly be applied to this lobbying this is the story i think that everyone in washington is missing out on because it's considered business as usual and it's basically collusion only takes place after hours news. but if you're on the move don't forget the r t up will ensure you don't miss a thing done loaded for free more great programs running. on a. local blog or telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight a battle that will. produce talk for the tell you the public gossip the public profile. off of advertising think you are not cool enough to buy your product.

when you talk about the interaction yours having with lawmakers with senator feinstein, senator blumenthal, democrats on the committee have their own talking points that are a little bit different than chuck grassley's. the trump campaign was willing to accept russia's assistance. they say they didn't talk about the russia offer, they didn't bring it up to authorities and they misled the public, et cetera. there's the addition of facts to the case what each player said to the committee. there's the political overlay as well. >> reporter: there is. and, you know are the democratic talking points on this are kind of interesting because they point out here's what we know. we see this in the transcripts that the trump campaign was willing to accept russian offers of help. they were willing to hear them out, they didn't report it and they were willing to pursue this kind of information. and they see these as sort of damning data points on their own. but my pushback when i talk to these democratic senators what of that did we not know already before todd? these are things we have already known a

american journalist max blumenthal believes that lobbying in the united states is a type of corruptiondisguised as a business we get kind of a a cook narrative that leaves out the real source of corruption in washington which is our allies buying influence and taking american policy over the brink in the middle east foreign governments are paying billions of dollars into think tanks. lobbying firms and even hollywood in order to curry favor in the u.s. the term collusion can certainly be applied to this lobbying this is the story i think that everyone in washington is missing out on because it's considered business as usual and it's basically collusion only takes place. there's a grim new assessment of progress made by the united states and its drawn out mission in afghanistan government auditors say efforts have stalled at best and at worst are failing here's donald quarter. you'd think that after sixteen years the u.s. led mission in afghanistan would finally have something to show for its trouble well here's how the federal authority tasked with overseeing reconstruction sees it. be

the american journalist max blumenthal believes lobbying in the united states is a type of corruption covered up as business we get kind of a cook narrative that leaves out the real source of corruption in washington which is our allies buying influence and taking american policy over the brink in the middle east foreign governments are paying billions of dollars into think tanks. lobbying firms and even hollywood in order to curry favor in the us the term collusion can certainly be applied to this lobbying this is the story i think that everyone in washington is missing out on because it's considered business as usual and it's basically collusion only takes place one of the most peculiar stories of the week coming up in a few moments tests on shellfish in waters off west coast america revealed the extent of prescription drug use in the u.s. the details are quite extraordinary that's coming up in one thousand. twenty five years ago companies go public as a way to expand their be a viable corporation you have to meet certain criteria to for being a bible corporation and then you are al

american journalist max of blumenthal believes that lobbying in the united states is a type of corruption disguised as a business. we get kind of a a cook narrative that leaves out the real source of corruption in washington which is our allies buying influence and taking american policy over the brink in the middle east foreign governments are paying billions of dollars into think tanks. lobbying firms and even hollywood in order to curry favor in the us the term collusion can certainly be applied to this lobbying this is the story i think that everyone in washington is missing out on because it's considered business as usual and it's basically collusion only takes place. there's a grim new assessment of progress made by the united states in its drawn out mission in afghanistan government auditors say efforts have stalled at best and at worst are failing here's donald quote you think that after sixteen years the u.s. led mission in afghanistan would finally have something to show for its trouble well here's how the federal authority tasked with overseeing reconstruction sees it . between

idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons investigative journalist max blumenthal told us that our songes activities make officials in washington nervous . u.s. has refused to speak to julian assange except under duress under harsh conditions possibly after solitary confinement which shows that they don't want to know what julian us knows they don't want to interrupt their narrative with with what could be fact almost no one in washington in the press corps will stand up and defend julian assange as a fellow journalist who is facing some of the harshest conditions any journalist in the west is facing because he embarrassed the u.s. government and he embarrassed the cia and we should also remember that there is no grand jury for julian a son for the d.n.c. hack or leak or whatever it was it only relates to the revelation of internal cia documents so this is a case that sets a precedent for the rest of the media and how other journalists will be treated if they reveal classified information and it seems like there's very little concern about that within the journalis

new york well american journalist monks blumenthal believes lobbying in the united states is a way of corruption covered up as business. but you get kind of a a cook narrative that leaves out the real source of corruption in washington which is our allies buying influence and taking american policy over the brink in the middle east foreign governments are paying billions of dollars into think tanks. lobbying firms and even hollywood in order to curry favor in the u.s. the term collusion can certainly be applied to this lobbying this is the story i think that everyone in washington is missing out on because it's considered business as usual and it's basically collusion only takes place. or stories for not is there still buzz around bitcoin much as they find it's after the break the latest report is next. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on this very dramatic development that only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. fifty years ago

well american journalist blumenthal believes lobbying in the united states is a way of corruption covered up as business we get kind of a a cook narrative that leaves out the real source of corruption in washington which is our allies buying influence and taking american policy over the brink in the middle east foreign governments are paying billions of dollars into think tanks. lobbying firms and even hollywood in order to curry favor in the u.s. the term collusion can certainly be applied to this lobbying this is the story i think that everyone in washington is missing out on because it's considered business as usual and it's basically collusion only takes place. a two time foreign minister of italy is among the guests on today's going underground and it starts right after this stay with r.t. international. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport doesn't this i'm show business i'll see you there. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race to piss off and

new york let merican aurthur unturned this much blumenthal believes that many western media outlets are only interested in foreign meddling stories when russia is mentioned we get kind of a a cook narrative that leaves out the real source of corruption in washington which is our allies buying influence and taking american policy over the brink in the middle east the term collusion can certainly be applied to this lobbying this is the story i think that everyone in washington is missing out on because it's considered business as usual and it's basically collusion only takes place with supposed enemy states like russia. cohen is participating in influence peddling he had promised a million dollars to a qatari rowel for a meeting with the president there was a definite attempt by cohen to shop himself as kind of a liaison for foreign governments a foreign lobbyist a foreign agent if you will all of the attention or most of the attention in the u.s. media however has been on cohen receiving a five hundred thousand dollars payment allegedly from the. from victor of exel berg who is said to b