>> trace: democrats delivering on their 2007 promise on d.c. drainage. >> neither my staff or i engaged in any improper behavior. >> i take full responsibility for my actions. >> an exclusive look how democratic has sunk into the swamp of corruption.

>> let's see the finalists after we tackle the health care crisis. >> the businesses are hurting not just from the sagging economy but the health care bill that democrats pushed through congress. >> let us transform. i'll tell you what small business owners are saying. >> in the race of the profit margin i raised my sales up 22% per unit. >> tucker carlson in washington, for more than 200 years, politicians have walked through these doors right behind me and promised you the american people that above all they would tell the truth. >> i promise you. >> i promise you.... >> i promise you.... >> i can promise you this. >> but do they? and do they even know when they are lying? >> i remember landing under sniper fire.

>> fascinating insides into political minds. >> imagine being locked in a foreign jail and sentenced to 30 years behind bars for a crime you didn't commit? >> i had no idea what was going on. they put a piece of paper in front of me and it said accused of rape and murder and they influence me into a cell. >> i'm here with an american's nightmare that sparked an international incident. crime shows like csi influence what jurors think? >> csi affect is the problem of jurors thinking that real world is resolved in the same way that case on television are resolved. >> tonight we'll explain the csi effect. >> these are five explosive stories you won't see anywhere else.

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>> sean: welcome back to special edition of hannity. 2007, nancy pelosi made a promise to clean out swamp of corruption while democrats had the majority of congress, years later the only thing has been drained is america's confidence in capitol hill. >> we have to keep that promise to drain the swamp that is washington, d.c. to let sunshine disinfect the congress. >> sean: and yet after three years she made her pledge, instead of bright sunshine, our nation's capitol has more problems than ever. in august 2010 the house ethics committee released comes to that democratic congresswoman maxine waters violated rules by allowing her grandson to grant special favors to a struggling

mass masses based bank in which her husband happened to own stock. >> neither my staff or i engaged in my thing. >> congressman was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and battery after he entered an off-limits baggage area at dulles international airport in 2007. he later paid a $100 fine but did not plead guilty, instead conceding only, quote, i behaved miscourteously and shouldn't have. >> congresswoman eddie bernice johnson was accused of improperly using funds from the congressional black caucus to dole out thousands of dollars in scholarships to a top aide. she was forced to dip into personal funds to repay the nearly $31,000. next door in louisiana, the now former congressman william jefferson was up to no good.

in august of 2005 investigators raided his home to find $90,000 hidden in the freezer. >> absolutely not. $90,000 was the f.b.i.'s money. >> in 2007 he was indicted on 16 corruption charges. last year he was found guilty on eleven of the 16 counts and sentenced to 13 years in prison. she currently free on appeal. >> in 2006, frec man democrat tim mahoney was elected to fill the vacancy of mark foley. it was revealed that he had a sex scandal of his own and paid a former mistress more than $120,000 when she threatened to sue him. >> i take responsibility for the actions and the pain that i caused my wife and my daughter. >> he lost his congressional seat to a republican later that

same year. another florida representative with north carolina's g.k.butter field and three gop congressmen are under investigation for misspending cash meant for meals and tabs and other unrelated expenses on taxpayer funded trips abroad. rules say any of the $250 per day that is left over must be returned to the government. some of the congressmen have admitted they failed to do so. >> in the midwest the cloud of corruption is especially thick over the state of illinois and the appointment of democratic center roland burris is no exception. in 2009 the senate investigating his inconsistent testimony of how he came to be named to the seat vacated by now president obama. >> am i going to walk away from this position? you better believe i'm not. >> he was admonished by the senate ethics panel but received

no formal punishment but the swamp doesn't include democrats on capitol hill. it has engulfed prominent members of state houses. illinois governor rod blagojevich the man responsible for burris questionable appointments was indicted on 24 corruption charges. jury found him guilty of one count of lying to the f.b.i. >> this case did not prove any corruption. as i have said all along. >> nowhere in america is the swamp deeper, dirtier and more dense than in the tri-state area. in 2006, new jersey senator bob menendez was under investigation for helping a nonprofit community agency receive millions of dollars in federal grants while the agency was paying more than $300,000 to the senator in rent. after they subpoenaed documents the investigation did not yield any official charges. across the hudson, charlie

rangel was charged with 13 violations of congressional ethics rules this year, including allegations that he failed to report rental income on vacation prom in the dominican republic. >> to me that the notion allegations evidence. >> since he rejected last minute pleas from fellow democrats and resign, a highly publicized trial is expected after the midterm election. massa may have only joined congress in 2009 but by march of 2010 he was already under investigation by the house ethics committee. rumors ran that he chased some of the young male staffers. they gave him an ultimatum and soon after he announced his resignation. the the empire state is not

without its share of dirty la laundry. the irs started investigating eliot spitzer with suspicious bank transfers. he was linked to a high-priced prostitution ring which he met a call girl. on march 10, 2008 the governor publicly apologized and seven days later resigned from office. >> that did not vacate albany with spitzer who was preceded by governor paterson. he had a record of alleged altercations with women and felony drug arrests as a teen. patterson suspended johnson and stating that he was realistic about, quote an accumulation of obstacles and offered new yorkers this. >> i give you this personal oath. i have never abused my office, not now, not ever. >> five days later patterson was

charged with an ethics violation for inappropriately obtaining yankees world series tickets. the commission has referred the case to the albany county d.a. and state attorney general for possible criminal charges. not only is the swamp still festering but it seemed to go into every crevice. >> draining the swamp.... >> it's all right laughable. it still is terrible place that is clogged with corruption and the place to start cleaning is your very own party. >> and coming up, the effects of the democrats health care bill, small business owners speak out, next. i was driving in northern california. my son was asleep. i really didn't see it coming. i didn't realize i was drifting into the other lane. [ kim ] i was literally falling asleep at the wheel.

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>> sean: the president has said that fixing the health care system is essential for the economy but one group is challenging that claim. and now the story. >> thanks, sean. >> small business owners will bear the burden of the president's health care bill and some are sounding the alarm that this bill threatens to transform not only the country's economic landscape. >> we will have universal health care by the end of this year. >> we came here to shape the future. >> let us transform it. >> we need to get this done. [ applause ] >> the democrats said their health care bill would bring much needed change but to small

business owners that promise has fallen flat. >> businesses around the country are suffering under the policies enacted by this administration. as michelle reported last month, the president's health care bill saddles them with taxes and penalties that will force them to raise prices or lay off workers or both. issuing a dire warning. this law, they say, is the first step toward a nationalized health care system and radical transformation of this country. >> the owner of this i-hop is one of the many small businesses feeling the pain of the bill. >> small business guy is saying, we have a bad economy and we're not making it. now you want to drop this other brick on us. we have no idea how we're going to pay for it. >> it's one way for business owners to recoup the cost of this bill by raising prices. >> i think it's going to raise

my sales up 22% per unit. >> he won't be the only one affected, his customers will see changes, too. >> $8 today, you'll have to pay 9.75 for it. >> they will fine businesses $2,000 per employee. they want to insure their workers but what from what we saw this reform won't have the intended effect. >> the cost for health care is going to be over $500,000. as a small business person, what am i to do? >> it seems like this is limiting your ability to grow which going against the american dream. >> yes. we opened this location here. we provided 40 jobs that weren't here before. i don't want to look at them and

say, hey, look, i have to close not because you were bad employees but i can't afford to keep the doors open. >> entrepreneurs echoed the complaints. dan's company adventure glass make paddle boats. >> the product we are making. >> the socialistic parties like his native denmark. >> we like the freedom of the united states. free enterprise and all that. >> the health care overhaul is taking the country in the wrong direction. >> at some point we have to say that we're not working for our customers, we're working for the government. >> it means changing the health care system but changing our expectations of government and one another. >> down in louisiana, they started their auto parts

business over 20 years ago. >> my husband and i have worked 120-hour days to be in the position we're in today. to be able to deal with that, take a break? we don't think so anymore. >> that is in part because the costs for insuring their employees is skyrocketing but the new health care bill won't do anything like that. >> they just don't have any idea what they are going to do. >> the owner of a chain with five locations throughout mass mass voiced the same concern. >> this thing does not look how to control costs. that is just the scary part of this whole health insurance deal. >> gop congressman carl ryan had long argued that the law is

intended to socialize our health care. >> the law is basically designed to encourage employers to dump employees and wash themselves have having insuring their employees. >> they argue that the answer to our problems lies with private industry not the government. >> if you want to control costs, then what you need to do is encourage competition which the law does not do. >> business owners warn that begin the burdens that it imposes on them it will discourage the entrepreneurship that has been a hallmark of the united states since it's founding. >> when you don't know what your line item is going to be, i don't know how you can make a realistic business.

>> it's honorable thing to provide health care but if businesses can't afford it where are businesses going to be three years from now? >> they are worried about what it will do to our health care system itself. >> what kind of health care system are we headed for? >> believe this is the first step toward a nationalization of health care. >> we'll be the same boat. >> paperwork is going to be more. >> by allowing the government to right of health care on its citizens, president obama is setting a dangerous precedent. >> he is offering us a universal right to health care but what the government gives will take away. >> this presumes that government can give us health care but the problem is when you have government delivering rights like health care, then it's government business to ration,

to regulate and redistribute that right. >> if that happens, this country is set for a radical transformation. >> if we come to understand that our rights depend on government, why shouldn't we depend on government? so that more and more people live on government themselves for their livelihood. >> it won't be the land of free and brave -- it will be ground down by dependency on government and resentment. >> sean: still ahead, when politicians don't tell the truth are they deliberately lying or just getting the facts wrong? to the world of multigrain... taste. delicious pringles multigrain. multigrain pops with pringles.

>> sean: politicians get caught embellishing their war records are they purposely trying to deceive you or do they believe the things they are saying? tucker tried to find out. >> it's no secret that some politicians have trouble telling the truth. it could be that the political mind doesn't work the way we think it does. could it be the invisible gorilla effect? >> i promise to get the job done. >> i can promise you this. >> read my lips. >> i promise you.... >> i promise you.... >> campaign promises, they are old as campaigning itself and

more often than not, they go unfulfilled leaving voters hard to believe anything that comes out of their mouths. >> are there honest politicians? >> george mcgovern was honest. what you saw is what you got. >> kind of cynical view. >> i wish it wasn't true but i don't think that being honest necessarily means you are going to lose, but i think that has become the conventional wisdom that you shave and chip the truth any way it's going to help you. >> you lie the same reason to breathe, to survive. >> reporter: it could be they really have bad memories. >> there is research all of us not just politicians don't remember half of what we think we do. remember hillary clinton bosnia trip. >> i remember landing under sniper fire. >> only problem.

it never happened. >> when she says i came under gunfire while representing this country she believed that. >> i think she did come to believe that. i don't think she is openly saying, i'm going lie about this. >> reporter: did she really misremembered being shot at? psychologists say yes because our brain can work a lot differently than we think we do. for example, count the numbers of times people in white pass the basket in this video? you would think you would notice a giant gorilla in front of your face, right? it turns out researchers say more than half of viewers don't notice. >> halfway through the video, person wearing a gorilla suit turns and faces the camera and walks off and then we ask them, did you notice anything unusual.

half the people didn't notice the person at all. dan simon is the man behind the stunt. they say that people would notice everyone would think that their memories are accurate. >> our memories can be accurate for some things but details and some things in the distant past and things recalled our memories can be distorted overtime. >> reporter: during 2000 presidential campaign, al gore took a lot of heat saying that his mother-in-law paying three times as much for the arthritis medicine he was giving his sick dog. >> while it cost $108 a month important for a person, it cost $37 for a dog. >> it was a good way to make a point about prescription drug

costs but as it turned out it wasn't true. so it brings us back to the bosnia example. >> hillary clinton was trying to draw a contrast on experience on foreign policy and leadership. >> i remember landing under sniper fire. was supposed to be greeting ceremony but we ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base. >> soon it came out that the news accounts, the articles that were written at the same time made no mention of sniper fire. video soon surfaced showing there was a welcoming ceremony and little girl giving her flowers and it served to undermine her campaign severely. the reaction in the media and voters also was a character, she must be lying. >> other people on the scene said in public hillary clinton was not under fire in bosnia.

she still clung to it. >> she notion she is wrong, it won't do any good. that is what her memory is. >> some politicians running for office in november are getting tripped up, as well. congressman mark curbing and richard blumenthal, they claimed uno faulty memories. he has repeatedly cited a particular award. >> there was a naval intelligence officer of the year in 19978. >> but that was not true. they discovered the unit was honored but not kirk individually. >> we misstated the award and it's my responsibility. i refused another award. >> richard blumenthal claimed he served in vietnam. while he served during vietnam he never left the united states.

he stepped up to the lie. >> i regret that and i take full responsibility. >> to interest pretty and vietnam was a place you probably wouldn't forget if you were actually in there. >> so will there are soldiers treated badly returned, that is your memory and every time you think you are remembering something you are reflecting something on the fly. what was in his mind at the time, that our generation was treated that way or the vietnam era soldiers were received poorly. those things combined to project that message. >> so we in the press spent a lot of time comparing to what candidates say to what actually happened. probably give them a pass? >> i wouldn't say don't give them a pass, but be aware that people can misremember things in

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>> sean: survivors in the 21st season could contestants fighting in the tropical setting of nicaragua. now, more on the story. >> you wouldn't know it from watching survivor nicaragua has a history. an anti-american leader and a dark side lurking just under the tropical exterior. the new book documents how one

young american learned all of that the hard way. >> san juan is a quiet town on the pacific coast of nicaragua. in 2004 a young american named eric decided to call it home. >> it was kind of untouched area. people who had invested in the tourism industry. >> it was a developed resort and then created the magazine. >> it was called el puite. life was good for eric. he begin date ago beautiful local woman. >> we had a romantic relationship for about a year and eventually i moved the headquarters of the magazine to the capitol of nicaragua. relationship ended and we remained friends. we talked on the phone pretty

regularly. >> within one day in 2006, everything changed. it began as a regular day. eric was in the office with all of his employees. >> he probably had meetings with eight to 12 people and gets the phone call saying his ex-girlfriend has been murdered in del sur. >> he made the two to three hour drive to the crime scene, making calls and picking up doris' father on the way. >> the mother and sisters and cousins, we all mourned the death together. >> reporter: after the funeral he went to the police station to question them about the investigation. that is when he was handcuffed, thrown behind bars without access to friends, family or an attorney. >> i had no idea what was going on. it wasn't until we got to the jailhouse they put a piece of

paper in front of me, accused of rape and murder. they threw me into a cell. >> he is suddenly swept into intrigue. >> he would spend 84 days in prison before his trial. >> the police tried to get him to sign a confession. that is when the sham proceedings and the nightmare begins. >> doris' mother believed that eric was guilty. there was anti-american kind of thing, gringo came in here and took advantage of this. >> she was able to demonize eric and she had full access to the media. >> the level of sophistication of the people weren't super high so the mob gathered. >> during a court hearing, tensions boiled over.

>> bus loads of people. by the end of the hearing there were over 350 people yelling, bring out the gringo we're going to deliver justice. >> the police were overwhelmed. eric was sought out. he ran down the street for his life. shots fired into the air by the police. >> it was an out of control situation. >> they had machetes and sticks, they wanted me dead. >> i saw murder and rape happen, the worst and worst in the criminal system there. >> and then another significant event is taking place. he is gaining control of nicaragua. he first swept to power in the 1980s. as the leader of communists and

now the anti-american dictator would once again be running the country. >> eric's case became a pawn of blackmail with the u.s. government. >> on the day of the inauguration, they smug a small camera into eric. >> reporter: that kept him strong and he would need all the strength he could get. >> there was little evidence if any muarld against eric and none of it was legitimate. there were a series of marks on his shoulder and prosecution said they were fingernail marks. >> the marks were from carrying the coffin. >> we carried it several hundred

yards. >> it was a sharp edge. >> there is video evidence of how he got the marks. >> as was most of the evidence. >> i had a signed credit card voucher. i had time and stamp messaging. >> the moment he got the call about doris and drove to the crime scene, his movements can be tracked by his cell phones. >> there are towers along the way where your cell phone connects to a grid. all of those calls are on record and charred his position along the way. yet that did not make much of a difference to the judge. >> neither did the rental car contract or the credit card used to pay for it. >> cell phone records, you had ten alibi witnesses. >> i now that eric was not involved in this.

>> we're here to try to get the record straight. >> but the judge refused to allow his witnesses to testify. >> he was simply looking for any excuse, no matter to dismiss all the evidence that exonerated him. >> still the family was confident he would be free and waited anxiously for the call. >> its guilty verdict -- had legal oh. >> guilty and sentenced to 30 years but in nicaragua dangerous and dirty prison system, nobody expected him to survive that long. >> a 30-year sentence is really more like a death sentence. >> but eric and his team didn't give up. lawyers waged an appeal and the family took to the streets spreading the word about his

story. after being thrown in prison, a judge found evidence shockingly absent and overturned the conviction. for nearly a week, the ortegan government refused to release him. >> i had grown sick in prison. i had been taken to a hospital. guards came to the room, we're taking you back to prison. >> so they threw me in in an ambulance and we were escorted by military and police back to the prison. guards in the ambulance had actually had to get people away from gunpoint. >> instead of being thrown back into his cell. eric is told he is being deported. >> i didn't know i was being released until ten minutes before i on an airplane. they intentionally kept me in the dark to torture and torment until the very end.

>> i don't know if you can appreciate the freedom until you have to fight for it. >> a year after his release the u.s. government cancelled the foreign aid package to nicaragua. a week later, daniel ortega brought his case up in the supreme court so the nightmare continues. >> i can read more about the story in his book "gringo nightmare." the csi effect, straight ahead. [ drums playing ] [ male announcer ] 306 horsepower. race-inspired paddle shifters and f sport-tuned suspension. all available on t new 2011 lexus is.

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>> sean: welcome back. our court system is based on the principle that everyone gets a

just and fair trial but could a hidden influence be impacting jurors' decisions without them realizing it. >> every week millions of americans tune into crime solving shows but the shows may be influencing real life jurors in the courtroom. it's called the csi effect. >> the csi effect is simply the problem of jurors thinking that the real world trial is resolved in the same way that case on television are resolved. in other words, they expect the same kind of evidence they see in the csi cases on television to appear in the real courtroom. >> dna is only involved in less than 15% of murders where on television, most cases involve dna. therefore jurors in some places get to think in they don't have

dna they didn't do their job right even though dna may not be necessary. >> many potential jurors expect real life crime scenes to be important trade just as they seem to be on tv, with cops arriving at the murder scene and gathering evidence. they say detectives could be able to find the dna of the guilty et party. >> not how the real world works. for a lot of courtrooms dna doesn't appear prosecution doesn't come up with that forensic evidence. jurors say the guy must be not guilty or we have reasonable doubt. >> you don't have to be that smart to be a killer and probably not leave dna at the crime scene. >> it's so important on television and works on television doesn't work that way

in real life. >> there are dozens of examples where the prosecution blames the cgsi have criminals walk free. parents watched as a man pose as police officer tried to force his way into their home shooting and killing the young boy. >> i remember his face. >> despite eyewitness testimony the jury acquitted the suspect blaming the lack of forensic evidence. >> when two different witnesses are certain that they've identified the man who shot this poor child to death, and the jury starts asking questions about dna, you know you have a problem because it wasn't about dna. >> i believe the jury had an abundance of evidence, certainly enough evidence to convict and they chose not to do so. >> after the trial, jurors said they thought the suspect was

definitely guilty but they thought investigators did not provide enough evidence. so justice was never served and the pain never goes away. >> i couldn't even face anybody. i'm sorry. >> but the story isn't unique. >> this example of the problem of the csi effect is robert blake case. >> he was a hollywood icon that was tried for the murder of his wife. >> we the jury find the defendant robert blake not guilty of the crime of first degree murder. >> experts will argue that the csi effect is changing the jury pool but there are some jurors who would disagree with that assertion. >> he was the foreman on the

report blake jury trial. he says they were tainted by the csi effect is laughable. >> the csi, that to me is silly assumption that somebody would be influenced by tv program, by some actors acting a role. blake wasn't convicted because we couldn't put the gun in his hand. there was no time at all that there was evidence to prove that he in fact ever touched that gun. a lot of people say, you let him off. we didn't let him off because they didn't prove his guilt. >> here is a guy who had motive, intent, opportunity, three big things that matter most if a prosecutor can prove those things. that is usually a slam-dunk and yet he was acquitted. >> aside from letting criminals walk free the csi effect is

financial burden on the prosecutors and ends up wasting taxpayer dollars. >> when it reaches a point where prosecutors can no longer afford to try the cases because they are spending tons of money, the public's money trying to hire experts to rebut absurd expectations of jurors, then you have a systemic problem. >> a lot of unnecessary work will be done in the laboratory by police because they do it on television even though it is totally unnecessary and time-consuming and counterproductive in real life. >> now prosecutors have to take steps to ensure potential jurors aren't coming in with unrealistic expectations of how investigations really work. >> the thing for prosecutors to ask people before they become jurors, do you watch programs like csi and if they answer yes,