Lobbying in the Trump Era

The New Washington

The New York Times

News, Politics

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In President Trump’s Washington there is a new lineup of lobbyists making deals and offering access. Nicholas Confessore, a political investigative reporter for The Times, spoke with Robert Stryk about the opportunity he saw when Mr. Trump was elected and how he has leveraged relationships in the administration for political and business success.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times this is the new Washington. I'm Michael Barber. Today the
0:05.9	lobbyists of Trump's Washington.
0:07.8	The Catholic Church has lobbyists, the Boy Scouts have lobbyists, Apple does, everybody has a lobbyist.
0:14.0	People are having impact on legislation, and indeed the people who are writing a lot of the legislation
0:19.0	are not the elected officials, but rather people paid by special interests.
0:23.7	I disagree with the notion that lobbyists don't have disproportionate influence.
0:30.2	That is part of the problem, Lobbyists, donors, special interest.
0:34.7	Wall Street spent billions of dollars
0:37.2	on lobbying and campaign contributions.
0:40.1	We have begun to drain the swap.
0:43.0	Yeah, I'm so.
0:48.0	So this is our new Austin, Georgetown.
0:51.0	Blue is my favorite color,
0:53.2	so it's one of the reasons why the office is blue
0:56.1	and the carpets kind of let.
0:57.8	I enjoy the peaceful nature of blue.
1:01.3	Nick Confessori, who did you talk to?
1:03.6	So last week I spoke to Robert Strick.
1:06.2	Everyone calls him Strick.
1:07.2	Stric.
1:08.2	This is an impressionist painting of the U.S. Capitol, as you can see, see it's very very different and very cool.
1:15.4	Have you been to his headquarters? I've been to his new headquarters. He's only had an office in
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