interest, whether it be a government, political party or person trying to impact public opinion or filey, it requires them to with the department of justice and disclose materials they distribute to people. there's been a lot of lax enforcement for a number of years. only recently, there's been a lot more scrutiny of the law. host: when you say lax enforcement, does that mean they have used this law a dozen times, a hundred times? guest: a lot of people were not necessarily filing on-time. we've seen a lot of attractive filing. -- as retroactive filing lot of retroactive filing. a lot of it went undisclosed for years. host: what is the danger of that? guest: people don't know who is spending and who is behind influencing their opinions and the policies that affect their lives. trish, callingto in from new york on the democratic line. good morning, trish. caller: good morning. say i just don't think any foreign government should have any influence over a political party, whether it's republican or democrat. what it basically boils down to andhe system is so corrupt it's because we've gone

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the focus of today's hearing, whether releasing cruz education fileis violates right to fair trial. he could face the death penalty if convicted. >>> also learning a lot more about the dproei igrowing scand involving irwin meyer and what he knew about allegations of domestic abuse against a member of his staff. morgan radford has more. >> i believe he knew. he chose to hp the abuser. >> reporter:mi courtney sth says for years her ex-husband physically abused her and believes his boss knew abo it and did nothing. he put on paid leave after text messages and photos surface raising the possibility that he knew about the domestic violence accusation three years ago and didn report them. smith seays she filed multiple police report, including one in 2009 that reads the defendant grabbed the victim by her t-shi t-shirt, picked her up and threw her into the wall. the victim is pregnant with smith's child. she didn't press charges. she spoke with watchstadium.com earlier this week. >> i was pressured by his family and irwin's attorney. i was told if you don't drop the char charges he's neve

they have extended the protection northwards to include all the seabirds around filey brigade is wellave the whole area protected at a special protection area. how confident that this will make a difference? i am quite confident. but the threats affect them at things like uncertainty over fishing, post— brexit because people will be vying for fishing rights and things like that and competing for the same fish that the poppins are after —— puffins, and other seabirds, and the increasing need for renewable energy, which we are falling behind, but in the wrong places, a big wind farm over the important fishing area could see off all the birds and give them nowhere to feed. it is a very popular stretch of coastline as well. if people are considering going there to visit, what should they be mindful of when we go there ourselves? it is all geared up for visitors, and because the puffins and other seabirds are on the cliffs, you are not likely to harm them in any way. butjust, yeah, anything people can do to raise the profile of these seabirds and the threats facing them, the fishing, the o