Brian Lair on WNYC, and as we continue to cover the election, our colleagues that on the media

are continuing to cover the coverage of the election.

That doesn't just mean what's in the network news stories and things like that. It's about the influencers on social media who answer to no

editors or fact checkers. It's about the lies and disinformation spreaders who seek to undermine our

democracy, not just persuade people to their candidate or

point of view. And if you feel like you're seeing a campaign commercial on TV or on your

phones like every two seconds, well, last weekend, on the media did a segment on the overwhelming

amount of money making all those messages possible. Here's a short clip of co-host Michael Lohenger

asking Rolling Stone political reporter Andrew Perez about a particularly brazen fundraising request.

And then there was that time in April when Donald Trump hosted a dinner in Mar-a-Lago with a bunch

of oil executives. Trump said, raise me a billion dollars, and he effectively promised them anything they could want,

you know, saying that this would be a deal because they would save money on their taxes,

and he would roll back Biden's clean energy agenda.

Trump also promised to fast-track oil company mergers,

which have been slowed by the Biden administration.

So he's been promising that oil industry is sweet of goodies.

This is a very explicit test of whether there are public corruption rules. Like if you can just say,

raise me a billion dollars and I'll give you X, Y, Z, are there corruption rules in America if that kind of thing is tolerated? I think it's an open question. And with that, with me now

is what a treat, both of them, media co-hosts, the co-host of Michael Loewinger and Brooke Ladstone from On the Media.

Hi, Micah, hi, Brooke. Welcome back to this show.

Hi. Hey. Long time, no see. Yes. Brooke was on with us. For those of you listening, helping with Pledge Drive last hour,

Michael, why is it uncertain whether that kind of open quid pro quo request for money in exchange

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