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And scream. speaking of unholy alliances, glenn, i want to get your thoughts on something else. the intercept has written about former "los angeles times" writer and current nbc darling, intelligence reporter, ken delaney end. tell us more about the relationship with the cia and why we probably see him on tv so often? as an "los angeles times" reporter, what to use to share with the cia? >> well, it is really amazing because we at the intercept to build a foia request where we asked the cia to t...

-- no matter how much they kick and scream. h speaking of unholy alliances, glenn, i want to get your thoughts on something else.me the intercept has written about former "los angeles times" writer and current nbc darling,i intelligence reporter, ken delanian. tell us more about thete relationship with the cia and why we probably see him on tv so often? delanian is an "l.a. times" reporter and what he had to share with the cia? >> well, it is really amazing because we at the intercept didl a foi...

Lobbyists home, but its par for the course. what is terrifying is not this piece, but the fact that a.p. reporters were kicked out of a safe drinking water summit while the pay raises mentioned in the story were given to employees who were supposed to be experts in the field positions given to the epa as part of the safe water drinking act and instead used to give $30,000, $40,000 raises for his folks from oklahoma because he wants to the reward his political people to help him advance his caree...

Get heard from the bureaucratic institutions that you pay for, you pay for the salaries, for the building, the heat, the lights, but you also have to pay for a lawyer if you want to get this information out of the institution thats supposed to serve you, tammy. >> yeah. its one thing if it really was a backlog. i know its a lot of materials and requests, but recall back in 2016 when hillary sent in all of the printedout emails and the argument was from the state department, weve got to look thro...

650 days in 2017, which would put you deep into another year. so when david bossey, president of citizens united, filed a foia request, heres what he got in return. state department says it will take 45 to 65 years to get me the info on its role in the 2016 election. so what is the rush? here no45-65 years. in other words, dont call us. well call you. >> got to give them credit for honesty. i worked in the state department for four years, and i can tell you theres no one, maybe second to david b...

I think thats what rex tillerson found last year. its been 15 months under the republican secretary of state. theyre realizing this is a bureaucratic issue, not a political issue. >> a bureaucratic issue, that its going to take 45-65 years? i would say thats bureaucratic paralysis. >> well, thats your government unfortunately. its possible that our federal government is large and slow and inept, but not necessarily evil. you know, the problem is also the reason that david had to take his stuff t...

Whole process is. >> its inexcusablebly bad. no company would tell you that. >> someone has to read every single page. if i read tammy and said, do you want to get lunch, she said, sure, call me on my cell, someone has to sit there and black that out. >> depends if you have the staff to do it, like the government. >> its amazing they cant do a search and find this stuff. >> you want them to drop a judicial watch request from two months earlier than this? this is all whack-a-mole. >> have a good ...

On an indian reservation. so, you know, there are all kinds of different interests who would want a little bit of influence, little bit of access, little bit of favor from someone with that sort of authority over such a wide swath of government policy. >> there is no prohibition of this in congress. it is a pay to play, you may not like it but it does actually happen. are there different rules in the executive branch in the white house? >> well, in terms of lobbying reporting, you know, very oft...

In washington. if you give money to a member of congress theyll be more likely to meet with you. at the very least theyll know who you are because campaigns keep track of who is giving them funds. that makes it more likely youll earn a sit-down with a high-ranking official. in one sense he was just sort of tell people -- >> saying what we already think. >> the way things work. >> the problem is he works for a boss who very, very, very specifically talked about this sort of thing when he was runn...

During the transition, president-elect donald trump promised he would donate all hotel profits from foreign entities. david fahrenthold is back on the money trail. he has filed a foia request. you can guess how much the trump organization donated. im guessing $27,000. we will see how much was donated and how this promise holds up. >> he is going to voluntarily donate all profits from foreign government payments made to his hotels to the united states treasury.