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 perfectly legal , question is is this all perfectly fine that's for you to decide. Grifen is tonight on the money trail. 

 

 

We talk about corruption 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 cynical 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 frenzy  going on, I think we need to somehow break the back of the ability of politicians to leverage 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 entity 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 marketing in DC is like bribery that you have outside interest for bribing 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 entities in a position to where they have to play ball.