Investigating Political Influence Tactics

We found that some brokers charge as much as 3 million.

So we decided to use hidden cameras and sent the

Cavinos to meet Burkman and Mulholl.

I don't think your pardon, I don't think it'll be too difficult.

They said they would put Ammon's pardon plea in the hands of the

president and push.

With this particular White House, you have to put pressure on the president

from

all directions in a consistent way to force his

hand. We literally want to put the pen in his

hand and get him to sign it because

he's tired of hearing about it.

So when you went the regular route, how much did it cost you?

A postage stamp.

Postage stamp. That's it. And this would cost

you?

$300,000.

What, what did you say?

I said-

I said, "I g- uh, what's it for?" And they said, "Well, we have to

buy tickets."

We have to go to Mar-a-Lago.

We have to-

We have to attend events that the president's at.

We have to possibly buy a $10,000 ticket to a

fundraiser that the president is attending.

They said we have to hire contractors to do certain things.

Whoa, what does that mean?

Well, it-

Influencers out there

... influencers that know other people

that can put us

in the vicinity of the people that can make a difference.

What we do is we mobilize members of Congress to call him.

We use certain influencers who have regular meetings to call him, and

we put him in a pincer movement.