After Hours EP 021 | The Busted & Broke FEC -- You're Paying For It

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, News Commentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The Federal Election Commission is costing you $70 million this year. But it's not even operational. The reason why is a story of history, politics and a smidge of alleged corruption. Investigative Producer Daniel Steinberger joins me. Subscribe to my two podcasts: “The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast” and “Full Measure After Hours.” Leave a review … and share with your friends! Visit SharylAttkisson.com and www.FullMeasure.news for original reporting. Do your own research. Make up your own mind. Think for yourself. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sharylattkisson/supportSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here.
0:07.0	Cheryl Ackison here.
0:10.0	Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.
0:13.6	Our topic today is a federal agency that I won't even say is not working right.
0:18.3	It's not working at all right now.
0:21.5	At a time when it's supposed to be the busiest and you're still paying a lot of tax money to support it
0:26.4	while all the work just stacks up. It's the Federal Election Commission. Do you have something to say and want to make your own podcast?
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1:11.7	Joining me once again is
1:13.2	investigator producer Daniel Steinberger and one of my favorite kinds of
1:17.6	stories to do is a story like this where really I didn't know all the answers.
1:22.4	I didn't know a lot about how the
1:23.6	Federal Election Commission worked. I didn't know why it was supposedly dysfunctional and
1:28.4	it was really interesting. Yeah great to be with you again. This is the best
1:32.4	podcast there is, right?
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