Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

News, Daily News

4.3 • 107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The presidency of Donald J. Trump has changed the rules of influence in the nation’s capital, replacing top lobbyists with a group of newcomers and former nobodies. Those newcomers are getting rich. Guest: Nicholas Confessore, a political investigative reporter for The New York Times. He interviewed the lobbyist Robert Stryk for an episode of one of our other podcasts, “The New Washington.” For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:33.0	This is the Daily.
0:36.0	Today, his presidency has changed the rules of influence in the nation's capital, draining
0:46.0	the old swan and replacing top lobbyists with a group of newcomers and former nobody's.
0:54.4	How to get rich in Trump's Washington?
1:00.1	It's Thursday, September 28th.
1:04.5	The Catholic Church has lobbyists.
1:06.4	The boys' guts have lobbyists.
1:08.3	Apple does.
1:09.3	Everybody has a lobbyist.
1:12.2	People are having impact on legislation.
1:13.9	And indeed, the people who are writing a lot of the legislation are people paid by special
1:18.7	interests.
1:19.7	They disagree with the notion that lobbyists don't have disproportionate influence.
1:25.7	That is part of the problem.
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