美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-02-05

 Welcome to the potcast, where comes to politicians trading money and power and you'll see how Washington got broken, without anyone breaking the law. Let's get started.

What you guys see tonight, what summer call the extortion gain play for personal gain they say but the very politician to make the rules is all perfectly¹ legal , question is is this all perfectly fine that's for you to decide. Grifen is tonight on the money trail. 

 

 

We talk about corruption² in third world countries, in this case, but corruption tour break the law to make legal to the corruptes, and I consider that a tortious in the name of democracy.

 

 

What's got former shell oil president John * so worked up, is what many people in this town simply call business as usual. is not only that money buys influence, it's also pay up for else. it sounds cynical³ but just look around and you will see it everywhere, like this typical Thursday morning, it's just after 7 AM and already the rush for the morning money is on.

 

 

This is the breakfast fund raise for Florida republic governor Rick Scott, want to contribute, it will cost you. The invitation says it's 2,500 dollars to get in, want a picture with the governor that will cost you 5,000. The host is principal group, remember that name. Governor Scott is in DC on the business of raising money once this event is done, he will raise cross the town to his next event of another fund raiser.

 

 

It all pour in to his own political action committee, a PAC, political action committees are one of the main ways politics get paid for, for PACs, money flows in campaigns, also through Washington. where politicians always seem to have found raisers under way.

 

 

Just down the street this DCC food restaurant will hold 4 fund raisers in the next 90 minutes, the man holding up a camera is Utah democratic *, his skipad is holding one of them, it's a 5,000 dollar a place for breakfast, a fund raiser for a guy who would soon announce his leaving Congress. 

 

 

Around the corner, a state house is holding a fund raiser for the republican chairman of the house committee, Dave Camp of Michigan for 5,000 dollar the invitation says you will be a star of his re-election campaign

 

 

On this Thursday morning, a dozens fund raiser will be held before a single congressional vote is cast, it's all * , said author peter Schweizer, business politicians shaking hands and shaking down anyone who wants to do business here.

 

 

It's a feeding frenzy⁴  going on, I think we need to somehow break the back of the ability of politicians to leverage⁵ their position to extract donation, that sound he is accusing politicians of using the power of their office to shake down constitutions for cash, well he is.

 

 

Schweizer is the fellow of * institute and had a non profit research group called the government accountability institute, he's also just written the book, called extortion. 

 

 

The political particularly wanna leadership or want its powerful can really make broke of a company, so company is other entity⁶ putting in the situation where they have to play ball because if they don't bad things will happen.

 

 

Basically, instead of buying votes, they are selling decisions.

 

 

Yes, I think the model we always think is influence marketing⁷ in DC is like bribery⁸ that you have outside interest for bribing⁹ our politicians, that certainly can't take in place, I think the bigger problem is more came to extortion, where politicians identify wealthy companies or industries and they basically mark them for extortion. They introduce pieces of legislation or they frighten certain things, that put those entities¹⁰ in a position to where they have to play ball.

1 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

2 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。

3 cynical   

adj.(对人性或动机)怀疑的，不信世道向善的

参考例句：

• The enormous difficulty makes him cynical about the feasibility of the idea.由于困难很大，他对这个主意是否可行持怀疑态度。
• He was cynical that any good could come of democracy.他不相信民主会带来什么好处。

4 frenzy   

n.疯狂，狂热，极度的激动

参考例句：

• He was able to work the young students up into a frenzy.他能激起青年学生的狂热。
• They were singing in a frenzy of joy.他们欣喜若狂地高声歌唱。

5 leverage   

n.力量，影响；杠杆作用，杠杆的力量

参考例句：

• We'll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.我们不得不借助杠杆之力来移动这块巨石。
• He failed in the project because he could gain no leverage. 因为他没有影响力，他的计划失败了。

6 entity   

n.实体，独立存在体，实际存在物

参考例句：

• The country is no longer one political entity.这个国家不再是一个统一的政治实体了。
• As a separate legal entity,the corporation must pay taxes.作为一个独立的法律实体，公司必须纳税。

7 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

8 bribery   

n.贿络行为，行贿，受贿

参考例句：

• FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
• He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。

9 bribing   

贿赂

参考例句：

• He tried to escape by bribing the guard. 他企图贿赂警卫而逃走。
• Always a new way of bribing unknown and maybe nonexistent forces. 总是用诸如此类的新方法来讨好那不知名的、甚或根本不存在的魔力。 来自英汉非文学 - 科幻

10 entities   

实体对像； 实体，独立存在体，实际存在物( entity的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Our newspaper and our printing business form separate corporate entities. 我们的报纸和印刷业形成相对独立的企业实体。
• The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities. 北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。