coming since your release from jail you've been very vocal about corruption in washington i read your book and i got a sense of your frustration about the fact that while you were sent to jail people involved in the same corrupt practices are sitting pretty in their offices on capital help them is frustrated that their people didn't go to jail or prison and prison is not fun and i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy but i guess what i'm frustrated about is that when they had my hearings and trials and when i was sent off there was a big exclamation and celebration here that they cleaned up washington but in fact they didn't clean up washington and so when i came out after rethinking my life and what i was involved in i decided that if they want to clean up washington that i would help them figure out exactly how to do during that senate hearing when you were publicly bashed by the senate is what were you thinking what were your thoughts as you faced the distinguished panel well i probably was thinking they

were a little less distinguished than others were thinking i was reminded can simulate by every word out of there mel that they were among the many who her to sympathize and some of the corruption that they were accusing me of when one of the senators was senator campbell was accusing me of corruption and wrecking the democratic system i was thinking back to the breakfast i had with him a couple years before where i handed him a check for my clients contributions and he said that they would never have a problem with his committee so i was thinking that basically about each of them i didn't know a lot of them personally because i had people working for me had a staff of about forty lobbyists and some of them knew the people who work for me but. i found the whole thing to be hypocritical it was a kangaroo court and it was a show people say you were a tory it seems your ability to buy. members of congress how did you do that i

don't think i was necessarily except on the margins much different than most of what goes on here but what happens here and what's unfortunate in which what i did in terms of pushing over the lines even of this activity is lobbyists and people want something from congress raise money for congressmen give money to congressmen in terms of political contributions by meals for them take them golfing take them on trips take them to sporting events and i probably did more of it than most did and i pushed over certain lines that are in the sand and broke the law but it is something that goes on far too often in washington you want to set in that found it very very interesting that that once you just a moment you offered a job took on rational thought for you owned them right there was no greater control that people could have over congressional offices than to have the head of that office know that they're going to come in a few months to come work for a lobbying firm from that minute on those people are focused on that lobbying from

their clients and it's not just me i see it all over us all over tell me it's not something i bet it it's something i noticed and something that i propose now to get rid of by banning people who work on capitol hill or are members of congress from ever joining the lobbying industry or the implements industry in america what did your clients want by investing in politics by investing in you well mostly my clients one of the federal government not to. get all over the back and tax them in fact their businesses most the lobbying is defense keeping the government from doing things to industries and to companies and united rules to help them avoid to vote actually day or night when i do have presented in a bunch of indian tribes and the way i got into it the first representation i had with the tribes was to stop the federal government from putting a thirty percent tax over the gross revenues of their gambling industry is what was interesting about your case it was not just politician. but also you you cheated

your clients namely those indian tribes with gambling interests who paid you mainly and so what i did was what i did was where we're about to pled guilty to was some of the efforts that we did for the clients in their states worst to stop their competition from taking away their markets they would crash their competition yes yes we would attack their competition and we would do everything we could to keep them from invading the market of our client and that's normal in america fortunately for better or for worse that's not something we we made up what i have any regrets about doing that well i think end of the day i regret using the political process as a weapon against competitors because at the end of the day i don't think the government should be used like that i didn't have a problem with that. and i shouldn't even if we're talking about millions of dollars in contributions it's still peanuts for any big corporation it's a tiny fraction of what they make did you get a sense of how powerless average americans are when the interest so big

guys like that are at stake on capitol hill well americans have a very tough time competing with these special interests special interests come in with a lot of money and you're right it's miniscule amounts of money compared to what they could do and some of them do a lot of money but it's still a small amount the problems the average citizen here is not engaged politically and when they are able to bring in money and influence members of congress to vote on things that are not good for the country and not good for the general interest because somebody with a special interest is pushing right that's where the problem starts so what i propose in my book and the effort that i've been gauged to since i've gotten out of prison is a way to separate money out of politics here and basically to say that if you're a lobbyist or you're somebody who's trying to get something from the government here you may not give a dollar politically of any kind and that that's one of the poor things that i've proposed to clean up the system i think it's very. because the end of the day

political contributions if i give you something if you're a congressman and i give you a contribution and i want something from you that contribution may not be called a bribe but it is a bribe at the end of the day how many members of congress are involved in an corruption like that in bribery like that well i mean ultimately every member of congress who's taking a check a contribution from a lobbyist or from a company or from a union or anyone who needs or get something from washington where there is conscious or not they're involved in it ultimately you can't accept something from somebody without unless you're ahead i'll do so yes absolutely they all do and what i'm saying is you can't as a human being if somebody gives you something you're going to feel gratitude and even if you don't do with that person once right there you say look i can't you can't buy my vote for two thousand dollars and most of them say that of course but the issue is if you do something nice for me in my heart i'm going to have to feel

a little bit better about you and what i'm saying is that is the moment of the problem if you're a public servant with all of the crimes that you committed there's still a sense that you were used as a poster boy a kind of a scapegoat for the corrupt system that is very much alive and kicking i want to ask you about the supreme court decision from almost two years ago that allows on limited campaign contributions lobbyist must be really happy about that decision aren't they some are some are i think the decision was for the most part very good the decision basically said that people shouldn't have the right to get money constricted i don't have a problem with that what i have a problem with is people who want something back giving money even a dollar that's the difference with with me now corporations the problem with corporations but you are contradicting yourself you were just talking about how any contribution can be seen as bribery and now you're saying no being able to funnel as much money as you want these perfectly fine in today's politics you know i don't think so i think people should have the right to give. i think i've been fairly

consistent and not to expect anything in return one on one on why should you expect something in return to there are a lot of people who give money in this country by the way because they like the ideology of the candidate they like the candidate themselves they're not going in there and asking for a grant or a tax break or or a contract most people don't do that but it still contradicts what you were saying a few moments ago and that is with any form of contribution especially a big contribution an elected official finds themselves in a situation when they told their benefactors somebody is worth a trillion dollars they live in some form in kansas and they never have any contact with any congressman ever and they see some congressmen they love they want to give him a million dollars because they think they're fantastic and they never ask for a thing from that person i personally think that's all right and i'm very hard to track down who asked possibly i've talked i've talked to law enforcement about this about my ideas and once the laws are set in place i think that they're capable of figuring it out that decision only created

a further complication in my view in the sense that it brought corporations them as a possible donor to political efforts and again don't you think it effectively legalize this corruption in washington why i think corruption is legal in washington right now thousands of people took to the streets across america to say no to jack paper amounts to saying no to corrupt politics in washington do you think there is a chance that action like that that awareness like that can change anything i think the occupy wall street movement had behind it some good in saying problem is that they didn't organize themselves like the tea party movement did which was political tea party movement had a dramatic impact on the last election and probably will still in this election and i spoke to them to the occupy people quite a lot and told them that until they get themselves organized politically they're not going to be meaningful because in america the protest don't really mean that people don't like street protests in america first of all the destructive there's been. the lising there is unsanitary things that go on and most americans the

repelled by that what most americans will respect is political activism an organization on the left or on the right now i think that there is anger out there and hey we don't have a money to hire a lot of you. can you know they're biting i might not be a bad thing but. you know american people don't need lobby is they need to organize themselves i think that in america getting it to first of all class and b. i think is very dangerous we've seen that every great. totalitarians movement in certainly in the twentieth century started with class and instead of class and be able to focus themselves not on those who succeed but those who choose to succeed in the sense of using the government and using the state to make their lives easier to make more money and there are plenty of those that get it like like i did like i helped my clients do and like every lobbyist helps their clients do unfortunately had it not being for the jail time which you have been just as we're painting as you are now if i hadn't had the fall if i hadn't had been destroyed i would love to

sit here and tell you i would have all my own come to how bad this was and you know i should have been doing it i should have been involved in that kind of lobbying but i'm not going to lie to you i would never thought that i thought i was doing the right thing that's the sad part of it all for me so as i look back i would have stopped i would have still been doing it instead of sitting here with you i'd be sitting on capitol hill negotiating something for one of my clients. took my getting killed for me to come to the realisation that a should have been there what do you plan to do. in the process of. possibly one amp of the t.v. show thank you. lose lose.

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know that. we welcome to the program thanks for joining us this hour to have dogs. doing well defending champion came close to only one game to make it into the third round. of the season. gets a walkover into the next round while to prove on court that he deserves to play in round three. and on a winning streak you have to hear me to read consecutively three in the. head to start with tennis where roger federer has advanced into the third round of the australian open the world number three didn't actually play in the second round as his opponent undress back of germany it withdrew from the tournament with an

injury while thomas birch of the czech republic played only three sets to make it into the next round seven c. check out class. of thirty to ease in the in the first second sets through a side track to win the title. rafael nadal meanwhile needed only three sets to go to the next round the second seed spaniard sent germany's tommy haas packing six four six three six four with me looking. on lots of the halter also qualified for round three as the dictated laws of the. game but saw itself in a forceful france the eleventh he'd belgian made different tests to start taking six of the defending champ and only one game in the second set. on the way to the

thank you to them. in the meantime well done one n top seed carolyn was not skinny so all. of georgia joined to spend the day had no problems taking sixty one second thanks this guy wanted to go. was too strong follow cole a very. charming job again thanks sixty six thank you thank you thank you. for the last few moments it's possible to make sure we get. there on the russian female player involved in the action on the third day of the tournament brought together successfully made it into the next round should be to play on tape in straight sets six two six one. hundred world number one novel drop

which raced into the second round at the expense of paolo raincy this needing just an hour and a half phone call to kill off the talents slightly resistance sixty to sixty six love it finished up since i would rather thank you thank god thank you the crucial thing that changed from from me winning two thousand and eight and last year was that. i get on to the court. believing in my abilities more denied than i did back then and playing more consistent playing well in a consistent level throughout the whole year rather than two thousand and eight. in the women's game or a shopper who is seeking her second australian open crown easily made it into this second round the two thousand and eight champion was in a no nonsense mood against argentina galloping to the open in the south before

winning a long rally for the match six about six one the final score there delighted to be off the mark. i had a pretty tough first chinatown and coming into my first a man of the year. or some speed last time i'm playing at a major south and she can definitely play some really good tennis and began just mentally preparing for the. skating ronnie. so. i think a pretty good aggressive. you know the news russia has claimed yet another gold medal at the first winter you fill in the games in australia on this to see if one of the women's cross-country five kilometers across the russian completed the distance in a tunnel for two minutes and eighteen seconds to diminish. our lives trying to track on the way they unfold over the seconds to two minutes.

and i soak in the kontinental hockey league back on the winning ways there are women thrashing after him with four one on home ice to claim their fourth consecutive victory and to state chances for a playoff sport well before the noun has more. the stakes are high cisco gearing up to secure a playoff spot in the western conference need to he make trying hard to build out in the east their first players this season was in the to work with the better canvas to be stronger than three two tuesday night in the russian capital so the muscovites fired back in style just four minutes into the game that they're just law is going to give their only men believe one nil to him said kept on building up pressure here is the nice part driven through the visitors the fans i need to him excel at their chances and counterattacks

keeping the host goalie the rest is love stana busy showing off his skills. however it was just scuff to score again. question in seconds after the first intermission to make it to move stanek at shunning saying one shot after another while his team mates kept on scoring in putting one man down there seen breaking away and netting stuff here. and when it came to the army men in the poll play the trumpet to run the. repped of the scoring for nil eight minutes from the final whistle visitors didn't give up the fight and managed to score a consolation goal but after the outcome it's always easier when you see the boys are playing well and working hard. to work hard for them and one day

scoring it's always will also call for his not just. his game which is the score and. the lock is on our side so. it's always easier when you're scoring. clean the pool configured. thursday. mustapha change did you can be good. at bars to be totally on r t. staying with a k. chel as it was a busy tuesday in the league care of the result the rest of the results based on call firstly distracted beat the test center this back three one in. your life time to be left for the way in the walk three other games finish the shoot out of the middle east and row there like that. moment of football now where espanyol has

made a remarkable comeback from two girls down to miranda in the first leg of their copa del rey quarter final the third. had already knocked out of the rail and racing suntanned the road to the last eight and the course of the event showed that they were ready to continue back during primarily the size goals from the road and in front to silence the home crowd but it's only how many same prove performed a miraculous five back eighty fifth to the eighty nine minutes the house netted afraid girls to find themselves when it is trauma spain it is called the decider for the us. in the meantime barcelona prepared to take on their eternal rivals from madrid within the same stage of the spanish cup pep guardiola gave credit to the opponents and doesn't stick to the outcome of the classic of the season when passing on a full deserved their three one victory. some computers i guess that will but

she'll be on the champions of this competition and the leaders of the spanish league we also have the best record in the chambers league groups each time a server we're playing against the strongest royal we can ever face in any competition but we should be ourselves in play the best possible game trying to school goals with our thoughts on the second leg up on the and finally in the english premier league chelsea have paid almost eleven million dollars for bolton wanderers defend gary cale the twenty six year old england international braden made seven appearances for the national team wants to continue his progress with the blues but i got to a stage a ball and where it was nice to move on and that's a wise move on i'll be alive some graves or whatever i've moved on in good life i moved on for a forward step in my career so that's what i'm pretty good now i've got to a level that i don't need to keep improving or not with. ok that's all the sports

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