carol: tell us about this company, dci. who are they?hey are public relations firm, that sounds not very threatening. as you say, they work pretty closely with the hedge fund community. zach: this kind of covert influence operation has been around washington for a long time. people call it astroturfing sometimes. it has been around for decades. but what is relatively new, there is a new client base coming in of hedge funds. rather than, say, tobacco or telecom companies, traditional users, you have a hedge fund that makes a bet in the market, they buy a stock or bond, and government has an opportunity to make a decision that could make the value of that bond or stocks go up. so the goal of these campaigns is to influence government not to benefit a company, but to essentially benefit the price of a security. carol: interesting. through policies or policy changes. zach: that is right. carol: so what is the difference -- as you said, companies have been sending people to talk to lawmakers, testified before committees, doing lobbying for a

carol: this company is called dci. like somebody we in the media would want to talk to when it comes to latin america because he sounds very informed. why does he have access? just because lawmakers reach out to him? reporter: that's a good question about how that hearing up together. i don't know if we will ever know the full story, but james glassman has been, since about 2000, taking positions, thousands of other beds and -- of op ads and testimony before congress, and writing studies. during almost all of that time he's been working for one company or another that is affiliated with this one public affairs firm that has clients who have interests that line up with the positions he's taking. carol: tell us about this company, dci. who are they? you say they are public relations firm, yet as they say they work -- as you say they were pretty closely with the hedge fund community. reporter: this kind of covert influence operation has been around washington for a long time. people call it astroturf thing -- astroturfing

dci opened flatg\ at the afternoon session. opened flat at the afternoon session.: it is great to hear that the situation is back under control. you are talking about the stock two 30e as a complex of floor towers. -- damage i in talking about the damage i am talking about was continued in 1998. the u.k. government has a new set of rules, grappling whether to lay the debt burden. ofy employ tens of thousands people. the company was in talks with the government yesterday to ask for 300 million pounds. it needs to stay afloat for the end of the month. we are now joined by benedict. if i take my mind back, i can see the broadsheets tomorrow. if the supplement gets a 300 million pound lifeline to carillion, the cries will be, why have you not bailed out people who are providing nhs beds, who are looking after the roads and railways? good enough for banks, but not the nhs. >> that is exactly the problem here, isn't it. damned if you do and damned if you don't. ?here was the trillion board did they not see this coming. this company had tentacles in all areas of u.k. busi

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then when he turns around not too long after that, and dci comes at working for hedge funds that woulded in a bankruptcy. there any sign that this is going to be stopping, now that he is sort of out did in his article. is he still going to get called up to make these kind of comment? how much. sure 14 years ago mr. glassman had a very similar story written about kind of shrugged and his career continued to skyrocket. so it may be that a lot of people don't care that much. scarlet: and that's why they call it the swamp. our thanks to pulitzer prize-winning reporter zach .ider you can read on bloomberg.com. president trump is selling his america first agenda to global leaders in. most while the debate continues at home over the role of immigrants in the u.s.. our chief washington correspondent kevin cirilli is standing by with a former member of the trump administration. talking with mark advisorormer senior vice president mike pence. let's start with bottles. president trump is going to talk about america first, does that mean going alone? all., not at it means if you are a business lea