S8 Ep180: Paul Manafort and the Origins of Modern Foreign Lobbying: Colleague Ken Vogel chronicles how Paul Manafort revolutionized the lobbying industry by merging political consulting with foreign representation, creating a model later adopted by Tony Podesta and
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:11.8 | This is CBSI on the world. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm John Batchel, continuing with the New York Times investigative reporter Kenneth P. Vogel. |
| 0:20.1 | His new book, Devils Advocates, |
| 0:22.9 | the hidden story of Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden, and the Washington Insiders on the payrolls |
| 0:28.3 | of corrupt foreign interest. The torturers ball. Now, what we have here is a story that is |
| 0:35.3 | unbelievable, except for Ken has backed it up with interviews and |
| 0:38.9 | footnotes and cross-examinations over many years. This is not just now. This dates back well |
| 0:46.2 | into the 20th century and perhaps before it. However, the revelations involve an enormous amount |
| 0:53.8 | of money transferred between especially states with the worst human relations possible, violent people, to the interlocutors who prosper in Washington on those avenues with fancy offices that some of which overlooked the White |
| 1:11.1 | House, some of which overlooked the Capitol. |
| 1:13.7 | The man who invented the modern style is with us. |
| 1:18.3 | His name is Paul Manafort. |
| 1:20.3 | He served some time for a violation of the far law that insist that you register that |
| 1:26.2 | you're working for devils, advocates, and that you |
| 1:30.1 | maintain careful records while Paul Manafort was found not telling everything, not being |
| 1:36.3 | transparent, while he was a member of the Trump circle. However, Robert Strick, who is a character in this book that is undeniably fascinating, |
| 1:48.0 | though he's also outrageous. He can't take your eyes off of him. He's an anti-hero. And Rudy Giuliani |
| 1:53.8 | and all the other characters around Mr. Trump's campaign you hear from now and the people who |
| 1:59.8 | were prominent in the Biden administration |
| 2:01.5 | all are part of the story so we begin with Paul Manafort and what we can learn from his conduct |
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