It was late when I arrived at the TV station, and the rehearsals were meticulous, and when Songya and Maria Kelly held hands and calmly accepted reporters for photos under the Tribeca apartment, the lights of the Heart of the Empire were already shining in the night sky.

"Humph!"

As soon as she entered the door, Mariah Carey shook off her hand, "It's all your fault, now we can barely shake off the paparazzi." ”

"I'm sorry, Mimi, Taragi is helping you clean up the master bedroom."

Song Ya didn't have much time to care about her, and after CUU and other media suddenly 'helped' on a large scale, his subordinates seemed to be a lot more optimistic, but only he knew in his heart that Danburton's accusation was not ridiculous, and it was far from time to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Haven't the troubles at the hearing been solved yet?" Mariah Carey asked.

"How can I be so fast, I'm not a god." Song Ya replied, "Go ahead, rest more, you're very tired today." ”

"What about you?" She asked.

"I'll go there......" Song Ya pointed to the study, "it's going to be busy." ”

"Oh."

Mariah Carey led her men to follow Taraghi upstairs, and Songya turned her face and asked Linda, "Has Goodman arrived?" ”

"Not yet, the snowy weather in Chicago caused the flight to be delayed, you have asked several times." Linda asked, "Do you really need him that much right now?" ”

"More than ever."

Only Goodman knew the whole story, and Song Ya said to Linda: "Send someone to wait at the airport, I will wait for him if I don't sleep tonight." ”

"It's not ......" Linda glanced at Hamlin, Sutton and others who were walking into the study, and carefully lowered her voice and asked, "It's not as easy to solve as you imagined, is it?" ”

"Nothing is easy, Linda, not to mention that Danburton has Jesse Hammers behind it."

Song Ya didn't answer directly.

"Tomorrow morning the conservative media will be pulling out the full text of the Damberton press conference, as well as the live footage they have edited, and I promise it will be a completely different effect than CUU."

Goodman didn't arrive, Sloan didn't arrive, but the meeting was still going on as usual, and Pathy Sutton was still worried about the conservative media, "Their audience is not small in the United States, it's just that the voices have become less and less loud since the sixties." ”

"Then let's start preparing for public relations." Song Ya consulted with them for a while, and according to their optimism, they agreed that the greatest danger would not come from Danburton or Jesse Helms, but from the attitude of Sony Columbia Records.

Logically speaking, Sony Columbia Records will also be a strong backing for its superstars, and their media influence is not low, but with the departure of Daniel and the second Motura incident, the two sides tacitly agreed not to talk about contract extensions, and the relationship with the new helmsman Howard Stringer and John Cali is very delicate, and Pathy Sutton is worried that Benzi and Motura will try to seize this opportunity again.

"We've got to find a way to give it a try, and the A+ Records' revenue will be settled at the end of the month, right? Linda, maybe you can ask if you can get a little earlier? Hamlin asked.

"It's likely to have the opposite effect, and it's not a good thing for Sony Columbia Records to think that we're having a cash flow problem, which is tantamount to pushing them down the path of betrayal."

Linda was adamantly opposed, "Now we don't even know who stabbed Danburton in the Barn Chemical case, maybe it's Motura." ”

"There's no way I'm going to have a cash flow problem, and my stock in Netscape will be lifted in February, although I've signed a series of sell-off restrictions with Jim Clark and others......"

Song Ya waved his hand, he didn't want to be misunderstood by the Sutton father and son present that he was short on cash flow, "Don't worry about my money Hamlin." ”

"That's Netscape stock." Hamlin doesn't recommend selling, "IE2.0 is not enough Netscape browser to play, and the outside world agrees that it will rise higher, and it is possible to rush to 200 yuan per share next year." ”

"Maybe, anyway, don't worry about that." Shares worth 300 million, and there is no power, just for the sake of risk diversification, Song Ya is also ready to sell some of it, and has already entrusted O'Grady of the Northern Trust to find a home.

"Ms. Sloane has arrived."

By the time the meeting was about halfway into the night, Pacificoton was too fit to carry it and had left, while Sloan came from Washington, "I didn't eat. As soon as she entered, she said.

Linda got some cookies and water, and she gobbled it up regardless of her image, "Me and Jesse Helms's cronies ......"

"Wait." Song Ya stopped her from continuing, "Pierre, Linda, and ...... Let's all go out first. ”

With only Sloan and himself and Hamlin left in the study, "You can say that. ”

"Jesse Helms' cronies have personally hinted to me that they instructed Danburton to do this."

Sloan continued.

"That's worse, very bad." Hamlin raised his forehead a little frustrated when he heard the news, "The energy of the Federal Senator, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, is far from comparable to that of a federal congressman in Danburton. ”

"It's no surprise that Damberton and Jesse Holmes have been inseparable lately." Sloan reviewed the brief conversation outside the Capitol Hill Club in detail, "The good news is that they just want to discipline, or give us some color, for a reason...... They made us think for ourselves. ”

"What do you think?"

Song Ya rolled her eyes, "Could it be that I did something wrong first?" I have nothing to do with the conservatives of the Elephant Party, so I can't be guilty of being on the rich list because of me, right? ”

"I summarized the following possibilities on the way."

Sloan said: "One, think about it in the simplest way, Jesse Holmes needs your money, he raised 16 million in campaign money in the last Senate campaign, and this year it is his turn to run for re-election, and the current fundraising progress is far behind, and my old friends in the lobby circle predict that it will only raise half of what it was six years ago, which is 8 million. ”

"We can't give him money, not openly or secretly, and there's no way he's going to accept our campaign donations, an ultra-conservative senator taking money from African-American celebrities? Then you might as well not ......."

Hamlin shook his head: "He has to risk APLUS funding his opponent for this incident." ”

"No, do you think Jesse Helms and Danburton don't have dissenting funders? Many large corporations, such as the telephone and telegraph company, have long sponsored Denburton's golfing hobby, and he competes in the celebrity category of golf tournaments at least twice a year...... There are not as many people who spend a small amount of money to buy a safe APLUS as you think. Sloan retorted.

"Could it be the telephone and telegraph company ......" Song Ya asked, "In retaliation for me to let Mimi use the wiretapping case to blackmail them with 2.5 million settlement money?" ”

"Telephone and telegraph companies? No, it's a small amount of money, and the people in charge of civil reconciliation and political contributions in the giant corporations are absolutely unrelated to each other. Hamlin shook his head.

"But it's possible that Motura hooked up with the other party in the process of self-help in the eavesdropping case, right?" Song Ya thought of a possibility.

"Maybe, but don't worry about that for now. Two, Jesse Holmes is pushing for Cuban sanctions in Danburton, and he may need your influence over Wrangel and the Black Caucus in the House of Representatives. Sloan continued.

"It's impossible, the black caucus of the Donkey Party will not help the conservatives of the Elephant Party pass the bill, this is a fundamental line issue, and even a party stick like Wrangel may not be convenient to listen to me in this matter, I don't have that much influence."

This happened to be mentioned by Doug, and Song Ya said: "As far as I know, it is very difficult for that bill to pass, and even if it is passed, the Grand Commander will not sign it into law." ”

"You have to try, it's good to get one more vote, that's not what politicians do." Sloane shrugged.

"Well, what else?" Song Ya nodded.

"The third is wine."

"Wine?"

"Yes, after the success of the Cuban Revolution, Western capital was driven out, including Bacardi, a liquor giant that started there, and it is rumored that Cuba is planning to restart the nationalized production line of the original Bacardi rum, and even the brand will not change. Therefore, Bacardi is also a strong supporter of Jesse Helms and Demberton's Cuban sanctions bill, and your current gray goose vodka is selling well in the United States, and it may be favored by Bacardi. ”

"Helping the financiers to make a lot of money is also an essential skill for politicians," Sloan said. ”

"I'll make a call."

Song Ya called Reese, the president of A+ Wines, and then said: "Reese didn't get any offers from Bacardi, and I went to Seagram and Bronfman Jr., the owner of Universal, to ask once, because we use Seagram's sales channel, but ...... There is no follow-up for the time being. In fact, the gray goose vodka is still very weak, I heard that the French brewmaster Frances Sti Bolt's tricolor vodka is also very strong, and it is also under the banner of a small company, and the acquisition of French goods is not more reasonable for the wine giants? ”

"Well, there's a fourth possibility, they want to force you to betray the long-time donkey politicians, and it's best to provide some black material." Sloan said.

"I don't want to die yet." This is even more ridiculous, I would rather risk going to jail than do such a foul to the sky.

"The last possibility left is that A+CN has attacked law enforcement units in the constituencies of Denburton and Jesse Helms, violently treating and discriminating against African-Americans." Sloan said again.

"Is there one? Last time we weren't...... Called Gordon? Song Ya remembers that another lobbyist, Remy, had come to greet Sloan on behalf of the Elephant politicians, and he himself had hinted that Gordon had rectified it.

"Like...... It didn't stop completely, did it? Gordon just lowered the intensity of his attack, I don't think much of A+CN......" Sloan showed a rare embarrassed expression, "Remy didn't look for me again, I think it's over." ”

Song Ya looked at Hamlin.

Hamlin shrugged his shoulders and graciously admitted, "I never look." ”

"Well, you're white, Linda!" Song Ya called Linda in.

"Uh...... I'll subscribe. "I didn't expect Linda to look at it either.

I can't complain that A+CN has no ratings, in fact, Song Ya himself occasionally watches it for a while when he changes channels, and he rarely even watches his own TV, so he had no choice but to pick up the phone again, and after thinking about it, he still called Michelle.

"Lately? Yes, A+CN has been following the case of a young black man in Charlotte who was shot and killed by a white police officer. "The man tried to evade the police and was shot in the back by the whites," Michelle said. ”

"Why?"

"Maybe it was because he showed up on the side of the road in a wealthy area and then put the hood of his sweatshirt on his head." "He had a history of stealing many times, but he didn't commit any crime at the time, he just walked in a proper manner," Michelle said. ”

"A young black man with a history of multiple thefts, wearing a hood, and showing up in a wealthy neighborhood that is generally not even connected to public transportation? Then he must be on his way to burglary. Song Ya grasped the gist of Michelle's words, "and then resisted arrest......"

"Your mind is dangerous, but he wasn't caught committing a crime at the time." Michelle smiled invisibly: "This is definitely excessive use of force by the police, the local black community is holding mass protests, and we in Chicago will also show solidarity." ”

"Alright, thanks Michelle." Song Ya asked her husband about the election, and Alice Palmer, who would cause them a moral hazard, was still in the process of collecting voters' signatures, and it didn't go well under their strong sniping, but the danger was still great.

"It's okay, thank you for your donation APLUS, don't take that incident at the hearing lightly." Michelle said.

"Well, goodbye."

"Goodbye."

"Charlotte is in Jesse Helms' North Carolina district, and the local politicians should have been friends with the old man for years." Sloan said as he waited for him to hang up.

"This Gordon." Song Ya pursed her lips in displeasure.

"We're just thinking more and more about the possibilities if we want to please Danburton and Jesse Helms, and we're just going to get more surprises from them." Hamlin warns: "Doesn't it even more that we are weak-minded? Maybe they will think that the Bath chemical case is really true and speed up the investigation. ”

"yes, we need more accurate intelligence." Song Ya looked at Sloane.

"I'll ask Remy again." Sloan looked out the window, it was already dawn, "I'll go outside and find a payphone." ”

"Mr. Goodman has arrived." Taragi pushed the door open.

"Great, you all go and rest, and I'll talk to Goodman alone for a while." Song Ya yawned and went out to greet him.