Hi, I'm Alyssa Malano, and this is Sorry Not Sorry. So, This is Ben Jackson.

As you might know, Alyssa is in New York getting ready to star in the musical Chicago and while she'll be here for many episodes

from time to time we'll be shifting around a little bit and this week you'll be stuck with just me.

But it's a great episode so the traditional way of influencing a foreign nation's policies through diplomacy.

But, as recent headlines have shown us, that's certainly not the only way.

Foreign lobbyists are working to shape our policies

globally sometimes with disastrous consequences. Casey Michelle's new book

Foreign Agents, how American lobbyists and lawmakers threatened democracy around the world

examines this dark underside of international relations.

It was finally in mid-February 18 days after that warning from the Justice Department

that Flynn finally did resign.

It was mid-February and then the month after that in March Flynn retroactively registered

as an as a foreign agent. Former campaign chairman Paul Manifort revealed he

made 17 million dollars in two years while working for a Ukrainian political

party sympathetic to the Russian government.

Senator Bob Menendez facing new charges today, they accuse him of acting as a foreign agent. The newly

updated indictment charges the New Jersey Democrat and his wife with

conspiring to have him act as an agent of Egypt. The U.S. government had classified intelligence indicating that Egyptian president

Abdel Fata al-Sisi tried to give Trump $10 million to boost his campaign at almost the exact same time.

Hi, I'm Casey Michelle, and I'm trying to expose all of the Americans who have become

foot soldiers for dictatorships around the world.

Sorry, not sorry.

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