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white house or the bush and the obama white house or from campaign to let people in because the secret service with their attitude didn't provide magnetometers so the political staff say we don't want these people waiting a outside the event. sure enough, the secret service but i'm in. you could have five with grenades come in and say the president or vice president. that is something that hasn't had a price. dozens of examples of corner cutting, other malfeasance is still haven't come out. >> just to take your latest book what are some of the revelations that you found that didn't make quite a splash he thought they would?
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one is vice president biden. when he goes back to his home which does several times a week he will instruct agents to keep his football which launches a counterattack on a country like russia where let's say china or north korea a mile behind in the motorcade with this medical.there because he wants the image of regular joe. sally says stay back a mile behind. they would not time to get to biden said he could launch a counterattack. what could be more irresponsible? what could be more reckless and yet that has not been picked up by the press. in addition, she goes back
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several times a week. it is one thing to go home a few times a year, but he treats like a little taxi and the taxpayers have been a million dollars since biden took office. and i got the figures from the air force. some liberal writer questioned whether any of this was true. what could be more official than the actual details of every trip provided by the air force. the only thing that is picked up by the press is the fact biden likes to skinny dip at his pool at the vice president's residence that will maintain which offends the secret service agents. talk about a war on women. eberly borderers on harassment to go around in front of female
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>> another of the great puzzles that lasted for about 100 years. what do you do with lobbying and the answer was lobbying is corrupt. it was against the public policy of the united states. it was a felony in georgia. it was a felony in california. when a case came to the supreme court in the early 1880s, there have been an old man too weak to travel to get tens of thousands of dollars for the federal government. he hired a lawyer to get his tens of thousands of dollars. the lawyer has to be paid is about the current contract to lobby. so the case goes all the way at the contract case.
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certain kinds of contracts you can't enforce lake contracts to sell sex were babies or organs in some cases. these are against public policy. the supreme court decided the contract to lobby was against public policy. because there is no evidence of bribery, that if we allow this gentleman to hire a lobbyist while the great corporations of our day while all higher adventures. and that will make their case in the state houses and every right-thinking man would call that corrupts. so that gradually fades away and then the shakespearean dirty seconds we are now in the 1970s. benjamin franklin thought it would last 200 years. didn't think you'd be so precise.
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and the supreme court for the first time strikes down limits on campaign spending, limits every european country has. they take it for granted you can limit campaign spending. the last 40 years we've had the site about whether congress can pass what congress can do theirs anticorruption laws or not. the court especially in the last 10 years has been striking them down because the court says they are not anticorruption laws. limits are not anticorruption laws. limits on corporate spending are not anticorruption laws and limits in some places are not anticorruption laws because this court, justice kennedy and robert scalia believes only one statement is corrupt and that is quick for a quote fairly explicit library.
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