after this we're gonna get ice cream. can we go get some ice cam? yeah. ♪ and i d ♪ and i do ♪ and do >> from the garden state to the golden state the hannity team is going to coast to coast to deliver five exclusive investigations you won't see on any of the evening newscasts. >> we will keep our promise to drain the swamp. >> how are democrats delivering on the 2007 promise of dc drainage? >> neither my staff nor i engaged in any improper behavior. >> $90,000 was the fbi's money. >> i take full responsibility for my actions. >> no perjury here. >> look how keep the democratic party sunk into pelosi's swamp of corruption. >> after all these years tackle

our healthcare crisis. >> small businesses around the country are hurting not just from the sagging economy but the healthcare bill democrats pushed through congress. >> let us transform this nation. >> i will tell you what small business owners from coast to coast are saying. >> raised my sales 22 percent. >> we will indict socializezation -- >> for more than 200 years politiciapoll significance -- politicians walked through these doors. they promised they will tell you the truth. >> i promise you. >> i promise. >> i promise you. >> i could promise you this. >> i promise you. >> but do they? >> do they even know when they are lying? >> i remember landing under sniper fire. >> i did make this speech on a few occasions. >> doesn't mean we remember it

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>> sean: welcome back to >> welcome back to the special edition of "hannity". nancy pelosi made a promise to clean up. years later the only thing drained is america's confidence in capitol hill. >> we will keep our promise to drain the swamp that is washington, d.c. to let sunshine disinfect the congress. >> yet after three years after pelosi made her infamous pledge instead of sunshine the nation's capital is muggier than ever. there are two democratic congressman caught in. the house ethics committee released a document con guess woman maxine waters violated house rules by allowing her grandson chief of staff to grant quote special favors to a

struggling massachusetts based bank in with her husband happened to own stock. >> neither my staff nor i engaged in any improper behavior. >> her trial date has not yelt been set. he entered an off limits baggage area at washington dulles international airport in 2007. he did not plead guilty instead exceeding only quote i behaved discourteously and i shouldn't have. bernice johnson was accused of improperly using funds in the congressional black caucus to dole out thousands of dollars to four relatives and top aid two children since 2005. johnson was forced to dip into personal funds to pay $31,000. now former congressman william jefferson was also up to no good suspecting jefferson of bribery

in august, 2005 investigators raided his home to find 90 thousand hidden in the preserp. >> the 90,000 was the fbi's money. >> in 2007 jefferson was indicted on 16 corruption charges. he was found guilty of 11 of the 16 counts and sentenced to 15 years in prison and is on appeal free. in 2006 freshman democrat tim mahoney was elect to do fill the florida seat left vacant by disgraced republican mark foley. two short years later it was revealed mahoney had a sex scandal of his own and paid a former mistress $120,000 when she threatened to sue him for firing her from his campaign staff. >> i take full responsibility for my actions and the pain i have caused my wife terry and my daughter bailey. >> he lost his seat to a republican later that same year.

another florida representative hastings along with butterfield texas ortiz and three gop congressman are all under investigation for miss spending daily stipend cash meant for meals cabs and other related expenses while on tax payer funded trips abroad. congressional rules say any of the 250 per day must be returned to the government. some of the congressman admitted they failed to do so. in the midwest the crowd of corruption is thick over the state of illinois and roland burris is no ex pension. they began investigating burris's shifting testimony how he came to be named to the seat by president obama. >> there's no perjury here? am i going to walk away from this position? you getter believe i am not.

it doesn't include democrats in capitol hill. it is also engulfed promine pro members of state houses. illinois governor rob blagojevich for example the man responsible for burris' questionable appointment was impeached from office and indicted on 24 corruption charges. they found him guilty of one man in the fbi. >> didn't approve any corruption. >> the swamp is not deeper or more dense than in the try city area. mendez was under investigation by prosecutors 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 agency documents the investigation did not yield any official charges.

he is charged with 13 violations of congressional ethics rules this year. including allegations he fail to do report rental income on vacation property in the dominican republic. >> to me these allegations are evidence that's all. that's all. >> since wrangle rejected last minute pleas for fellow democrats to cut a deal and resign and a highly publicized trial is expected in the house sometime after the midterm elections. eric nasa new york representative may have only joined congress in january 2009 but my march of 2010 he was already under investigation by the house ethics committee. the married democrats there were rumored he prom significances and even groped some of the young staffers. they gave massa an ultimatum and soon after they announced his resignation. much like illinois the empire state governor is not without

his share of dirty laundry. they started investigating eliot spitzer for suspicious bank transfers. one year later he was linked to a high priced prostitution ring which he patronized he went to in order to meet among others ashley dupree. he publicly apologized and 7 days later apologized. >> i thought it was the right thing to do. >> scandal did not vacate spitzer who was repeated by david patterson. in 2010 the new york times revealed david johnson had a record of alleged ality indications with women and felony drug arrests as a teen. addison suspended jovrn son and stated he was realistic about quote an accumulation about obstacles about 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

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>> the president said fixing the healthcare system is essential to revitalizing the economy. fox news medical contributor has the story. >> thanks, sean. small business owners will fupd the healthcare bill. they are sounding the alarm this bill threatens to transform not only the economic landscape but our way of life. take a look. >> we will have universal healthcare in america by the end of the next president's first term. >> we did not come to fear the future. we came here to shape it. let us transform the state. >> we need to get this done. >> democrats said their healthcare bill would bring much needed change. to small business owner that is promise has fallen flat.

businesses around the country are suffering under the policies by this administration. as michelle malcolm reported the president's healthcare bill saddled them with tax care penalties that will raise races layoff workers or both. the first step toward nationalized healthcare system and radical transformation of the country. >> the owner of this i hop is one of many feeling the pain from the president's healthcare bills. >> we have a bad economy we are not making it we are having a hard time paying our bills but we want to drop another for this. >> there is one way to recoup the cost of this bill by raising prices. >> it brought my sales up 22

percent per unit. >> he won't be the only one affected by the new law. his customers will see changes, too. >> omelette costs you $8 today after healthcare you will pay 9.75 for it. >> under the healthcare bill the government will find businesses that did not provide health insurance $2,000 per employee every year. it is supposed to incentivize business owners to ensure workers. from what we saw the so-called reform won't have the intended effect. >> my cost of healthcare is going to be over $500,000 for healthcare. the cost of fines anywhere between 220 and 330. as a small business person what am i to do? >> feels like this is limiting your ability to grow which goes against everything we know about the american dream, right? >> yes. we opened this location here we provided 40 jobs. i don't want to be the guy who looks at it and says hey, look,

i have to close not because you were bad employees but because i can't afford to keep the door open. >> entrepreneurs around the country echoed the complaints. down sized the company and makes paddle boats for amusement parks and zoos around the world. >> these products we are making an the big amusement parks. >> they fled the socialistic policies for the liberty of the u.s. >> we like the freedom of the united states positive governments toward the enterprise and all that. >> he says the health care overhaul is taking the country in the wrong direction. >> at some point we joke around and say we are not working for customers we are working for government. >> it means not only changing the healthcare system but also changing our expectation of government and of one another. >> down in baton rouge, louisiana patricia and wayne felder started their auto parts business more than 20-years ago.

>> my husband and i worked 20 hours a day most of our young lives to be in the position we are in today in our 60s to be able to we thought take a break. well, we don't think so any more. >> that is in because the cost of insuring employees is sky rocketing but the healthcare bill won't do anything about that. >> the companies already warned us they don't have any idea what their costs are going to be. >> the owner of a pesticide chain with 5 locations throughout massachusetts voice the same concerns. >> they would not get out to control the costs. that is just the scariest part of this whole health insurance deal. gop congressman paul ryan has long argued the democrat's law is actually intended to

socialize our healthcare. >> the law is basically designed to encourage employers to dump employees in government run plan and wash themselves of the notion of offering public insurance to employees. >> ratner and felder argue the answer to our problems lie with the private industry not the government. >> private industry does a better job of everything. >> if you want to control costs, what you need to do is you need to encourage competition which this blog does not do. >> we can get government out of our business we could pull this country back together in a heartbeat. >> business owners warn given the burden this imposes on them it will discourage the entrepreneur ship that is founding. >> when you don't improve one of the line items are going to be i don't think you need to develop a reel lis sick thing. >> honorable and noble thing to

provide healthcare where is this going to be three years from now. >> those with spoke with are wore itemed what the healthcare bill will do to our system is se itself. >> what kind of healthcare system are we moving toward? >> first step in nationalization of healthcare. >> we will end up with socialized medicine and be in the same boat. >> paperwork will be more important than the actual people. >> there's a right to healthcare on the citizecitizens. president obama is setting a dangerous precedence. >> it is universal rights to healthcare but what the government giveth the government take it away. >> it assumes the government give us healthcare but when we have government manufacturing rights such as healthcare it is the government business

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. >> more and more people live on the government than themselves for their livelihood. >> it is the home of the free lapped of the grave they would have been ground down by our dependency on government and our resentment. >> when politicians don't tell the truth are they deliberately lying or are they getting the facts wrong? introducing bayer am, an extra strength pain reliever with alertness aid to fight fatigue. so get up and get goin'! with new bayer am. the morning pain reliever.

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>> sean: politicians >> when politicians get caught embellishing records or others are they trying to deceive you or do they think what they are saying. tucker carlson headed to washington to find out. >> it is no secret some politicians have trouble telling the truth. political minds don't work the way we think it does. could it be the case of the invisible gorilla effect? >> we as a people will get there. >> i promise to get the job done. >> i can promise you this, read l my lips. >> i promise you. >> i promise you. >> campaign promises are as old as campaigning itself.

they often go unfulfilled. it is hard to believe anything that comes out of a politician's mouth. >> i think it was simon. >> george mcgovern was a poll significance what you saw is what you got and he won one state. >> the more honest you were the less successful you are? >> i wish it wasn't true. i don't think being honest necessarily means you are going to lose but that's the convention mal wisdom you shade and shift the truth in any way that will help you politically. >> if you lie for the same reason they bleed you do it to survivor. >> is it possible they are not lying at all? could it be they have really bad memory? there is research that suggests all of us not just politicians do have than others do. >> her trip to bosnia. >> i remember landing under sniper fire. >> the only problem, it never

happened. >> when hillary clinton says i came under gun fire while representing this country abroad she beliefs that? >> i think she probably did come to believe that. i don't think she was consciously and openly saying i am going to lie about this. >> could hillary clinton have miss remembered being shot at? some say yes because our brains work differently than we think we do. >> count the number of times people in white pass the basketball in this video. >> you would think you would notice the giant gorilla right in front of your face, right? turns out researchers say more than half of the viewers don't notice. >> halfway through the video a person wearing a gorilla suit walks into the scene gets in the center turns and faces the camera thumps his chest and walked out the other side. we asked them did you notice

anything unusual? half of the people didn't notice the person in the gorilla suit at all. >> they are the men behind the gorilla experiment and authors of "the invisible gorilla." everyone thinks they would notice the gorilla but also everyone thinks their memories are accurate. >> they are accurate for some things but when it comes to details and things in the distant past or things that were called over and over again memories can become distorted over time. >> doesn't mean we remember it accurately. >> during the 2000 presidential campaign al gore took heat for telling seniors in florida his mother in law paid three times as much as his arthritis medicine he was giving his sick dog. >> this is an example in our household. while it costs $108 a month for a person it costs 27.80 for a dog. >> it was a good way to make a point about prescription drug costs until it turns out it wasn't true.

stretching the truth about dogs drugs is a far cry from having being shot at which brings us to the bosnia example. >> he w she was trying to draw contrast or the issue of foreign policy and leadership internationally. >> i remember landing under sniper fire. there was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport but instead we ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base. >> soob it came out the c contemporaneous news accounts the articles that were written at the same time made no mention of sniper fire at all. in fact video soon surfaced there was a welcoming sermon knee and a little girl giving her flowers. this really undermine her campaign severely and the reaction was a character of she must be lying. >> other people on the scene said in public hillary clinton was not under fire in bosnia she

clung to the idea that she was. >> here's someone who is politically savvy. she is not going to repeat something she knows is wrong. wouldn't be good. by one reason she might keep repeating it is that is what her memory is that's what feels right to her. >> some running for office are getting tripped up as well. mark kirk and senate candidate bloom enthall were less than truthful. they claimed unfaithful memories. over the years he repeatedly sighted an award. >> navy intelligence officer of the year in 1988. >> that, too, not true. >> his unit was honored not kirk. >> we misstated the award. it was my responsibility for stating it. i received the intelligence award. >> he claimed he served in vietnam. they recovered while he served during vietnam he never left the

united states. he fessed up to the lie. >> i regret that and take full responsibility. >> hard to miss interpret you were in that country or not vietnam is a place that you wouldn't forget easily. >> in his mind he can manufacturer that. >> people being treated in vietnam memories then what happened to you at the time. every time you remember something you are constructing something on the fly. if what was in his mind at the time that our generation was treated that way where the soldiers were received poorly those were combined without you knowing it. >> we in the press spends a lot of time comparing what candidates say to what actually happened. probably ought to give them a pass that's what you are say isn'ting>> i wouldn't say to give anybody a pass. what we need to do is be aware that people can miss remember things in a completely nonmalicious sort of way. what it can sometimes show is

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>> sean: >> media show survivor is in the tropical setting of nicaragua. there's a side of the country you won't see on cbs. ainsley earhardt has the story. >> you wouldn't know it from watching survivor but nicaragua is a country with a controversial history an anti-american leader and a dark side lurking just under the tropical exterior. the new brook documents how one

american learned all of that the hard way. >> san wandel tore is quiet town on the pacific coast of nicaragua. in 2004 a young american named eric bowl decided to call it home. >> it was kind of an untouched area. people who had invested in the tourism industry that exploded in costa rica started to spill over into anything wag roy. >> there was developments and resorts he started that and created a magazine. >> the magazine was called "the bridge." it was a success. life was good for eric. he began dating a beautiful local woman named doris. >> we had a roman dick relationship for about a year and eventually i moved the headquarters of the magazine to the capitol of nicaragua. at that point the relationship ended amicabamicably. we remained friends and talked

on the phone pretty regularly. >> one day in 2006 everything changed. it began as a regular day. eric was in the office with all of his employees. >> he probably has meetings with 8 to 12 people then he gets a phone call telling him that his ex-girlfriend has been murdered in san wandel sur. >> i was completely in shock. >> eric rents a car and makes the 2-3 hour drive from the capitol to the crime scene making calls and picking up doris' father along the way. >> doris' mother and sisters and cousins were all nice to me. we all mourned the death together. >> after the funeral eric went to the police station to question them about the investigation. that's when he finds himself in handcuffs thrown behind bars without access to his friends, family or an attorney. >> i had no idea what was going on. it wasn't until we got to the jail how is that they put a

piece of paper per in front of me and said accused of rape and murder. they through me into a cell. he is suddenly swept into a case of communists verses north americans. >> he would spend 84 days in prison before his trial. >> the police try to get him to sign a false confession. that's what the sham proceedings and the ni nightmare begins. >> doris' mother believed that erk rick killed her and she riled up the town. >> there was an anti-american kind of thing this gringo comes in here and banishes up and thinks he can get away with it. >> she was able to demonizer rick and had full access to the media. >> he cranked the level of sophistication to the towns people wasn't super high. the mob gathered. >> during the court hearings

tensions boil over. >> bus loads of people were arriving. during the hearing there were 350 people outside yelling saying bring out the gringo we are going to deliver justice with our own hands. >> police were overwhelmed. as eric was brought up there was a surge forward. he ran down the street for his life shots fired into the air by police. it was an out of control situation. >> they had machetes and sticks they wanted me dead. >> back behind bars he was not much safer. it was a horrific place. i saw murder happened. i saw rape. they keep the so-called worst of the worst in the criminal prison there. one meal a day. bugs in the food. >> outside the prison walls another significant event is taking place. daniel ortega is trying to get control of anything wag roy. as the leader of the communist

rebel and now the anti-american dictator would once again be running the country. >> eric's case became completely political he became a pawn with blackmail in the government. >> on the day of the inauguration a visitor smuggles a small digital camera into eric. >> today is wednesday the 10th daniel ortega. 6 hours in nicaragua. they are going to -- >> that faith kept eric strong and he would need all of the strength he could get. >> there was very little evidence if any mar shelled against eric in the trial. none of it was legitimate. one thing there were a series of marks on eric's shoulder. prosecution said they were fingernail marks. >> in fact the marks were from carrying doris' coffin. >> it was heavy. the edge was sharp. it was digging into my shoulder.

>> it was a sharp edged woulded den coffin. >> there is video evidence of how he got the mark and yet that was completely ignored. >> i had a signed credit card voucher. i had instant time stamps messaging. >> the moment he got the call about doris and drove more than 100 miles to the crime scene eric's movements can be tracked by his control phone. >> there are towers along the way where your cell phone connects to a grid. all of those calls are on record. charted his position along the way. yet that does not make much of a difference to the judge. >> neither did the rental car contractor the credit card he used to pay for it. >> cell phone records were just one piece. you had ten alibi witnesses. >> about to go in and give my testimony where i say without a doubt i know that eric was not able to have been involved in this. >> we are here trying to set the

record straight. >> the judge refused to allow most of his witnesses to testify. >> she was simply looking for any excuse no matter how flimsy to dismiss all of the evidence that exonerated him. >> his family was confident he would be freed and waited anxiously for the call. >> it's a guilty verdict. >> jackie. >> hello. >> hey, it's me. >> hi. >> it's a guilty verdict. they are getting ready to taker rick back to jail. >> guilty. sentenced to 30 years. but in anything wag nicaragua prisons nobody expected him to survive that long. >> a 30 year sentence in prison is more like a death penalty. >> eric and his team didn't give up. while they waged an appeal his family took to the airwaves and the streets spreading the word about his story. 13 months after being thrown in

prison a judge reviewing the case found evidence shockingly absent and overturned the conviction. for nearly a week the ortega government still refused to release him. >> i had grown very sick in prison and i had been moved to a police hospital. some guards busted in the room and they said let's go. we are taking you back to prison. so they through me into an ambulance and we were escorted by military and by national police back to the priz -- prison. several times the guards and ambulance backed people away at gun point. it was a pretty scary situation. >> instead of being thrown back into his cell eric is told he is being deported. >> i didn't know i was being released until 10 minutes before i was on the airplane leaving nick wag wan air spaces. they kept me in the dark to torture and tore meant until the

very end. >> oh my god. oh my god! oh my god. >> i don't know if you really and truly appreciate your freedom until you have a fight for it. >> a year after his release the u.s. government canceled the foreign aid package to anything w nicaragua. a week later he brought eric's case up to the supreme court. the nightmare conditions. >> you can read more about the story gringo nightmare. people here in the u.s. may not be getting fair trials either. the csi effect straight ahead. d. not tylenol. notleve. nothing lasts longer than advil. pain rief that lasts. one more reason to make advil your #1 choice. when allergies make them itch, don't wait for your pills to kick in. choose alaway,

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everyone getting a just and fair trial. could they impact injure or's decision without even knowing it. >> millions of americans tune into tv crime solving shows but these 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's trials are resolved in the same way that the cases on television are resolved. they expect the same kinds of evidence they see in the csi cases on television to appear in the real courtroom. >> dna is only involved in less than 15 percent of murders where on television most of the cases involve dna and therefore jurors

in some places if they don't get dna they didn't get their job right even though it may not be nis. >> they expect real life crime scenes to be portrayed like on tv with cops going to the murder scene finding the victim and gathering a treasure trove of evidence. they think they should be able to find the dna of the parties. >> not the way it works where dna doesn't appear the prosecution doesn't come up with that magic little bit of forensic evidence. newer o -- injure or sz say he must not be guilty or we reasonable doubt. >> you don't have to be that smart to be a killer and another you should probably try not to live dna at the crime scene. >> dna is so important on television works on television doesn't work that well in real

life. >> there are dozens of real live examples where the prosecution blames the csi effect where they let the criminals walk free. the case of malique is one example. malique's family watched as a fan posing as a police officer forced his way into a home shooting and killing the young boy. >> remember his face. >> have you ever seen him before? >> no. i had never seen him in my life. >> despite their eyewitness testimony the jury let him go for lack of evidence even with the eyewitnesss. >> when two witnesses identify the man who shot this poor child to death and the jury starts asking questions about dna you know you have got a problem. it wasn't about dna. >> i believe the jury had enough evidence to convict and they choose not to do so. >> they felt the suspect james

sherrod was guilty but said investigators didn't provide enough evidence. justice was never served and the pain never goes away. >> my brother was there. i can't even say this out loud. i am sorry. that myra's story isn't unique. >> that's an example of the problem of the csi effect is robert blake case. >> robert blake was a hollywood icon charged for the murder of his wife. >> we the jury in the above entitled action find robert make not guilty of first degree murder. >> experts argue csi effect is tainting the jury pool. there are some jurors who would disagree with that assertion. >> thomas nicholson was the four man on the robert blake murder

trial. the idea that they were tainted by the csi effect is laughable. >> that is a a very silly assumption somebody would be influenced the tv program by some activist -- actors acting a role. >> he wasn't convicted because he couldn't put the gun in his hand. there was no time at all there was evidence to prove that he in fact even ever touched that gun. never found him innocent. i didn't let him off. he was not guilty because they didn't prove his guilt. >> here's a guy who had loaded in -- motive, intent. opportunity the three big things mattered most. if prosecutors can prove those things that's usually a slam dunk yet he was acquitted. >> aside from letting criminals walk free it has put financial

burden on the prosecutors and ends up wasting tax payer dollars? >> when it reaches the point where prosecutors can no longer aforted 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 know 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 count ir productive in real life. >> they have to tell them they aren't having unrealistic inv u expectation of how it works. >> you have to ask do you watch programs like csi if the answer is yes try to get rid of them. >> when it