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 capitol hill well i'm not as frustrated that their people don't go to jail or prison prisons 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 it 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 continually by every word out of their mouth that they were among the many who participated in some of the corruption that they were accusing me of when one of the senators a senator campbell was accusing me of her option on me wrecking the democratic system i was thinking back to the practice i had with him a couple years before where i handed him checks from my clients his contributions and who 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 at a staff of about forty lobbyists and some of them knew the people who worked 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 ability to buy members of congress how did you do that i don't think i was. severally 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 congressman in terms of political contributions by meals for them take them golfing take them on trips take them the 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 says something that goes on far too often in washington you want to set and i found it very very interesting that that once you just the moment you offered a job to a congressional staffer you owned him 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 saw it all over town it's not something i bet

it it's something i noticed and it's something that i propose now to get rid of by banning people who work on capitol hill or members of congress from ever joining the lobbying industry or the influence 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 in tax and sector businesses most the lobbying is defense keeping the government from doing things to industries and to companies and to i do to help them avoid to going back today and i don't want i just presented 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 industries what was interesting about your case it was not just politicians who cheated but also you cheated your clients name they those indian tribes with gambling interests who paid millions of them. what i did was what i did was where were of what i pled guilty to

was some of the efforts that we did for the clients in their states was to stop their competition from taking away their market they would crash their competition 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 do you 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 it then 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 to just get a sense of how powerless average americans are when the interests of 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 that it's minuscule 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 problem the average citizen is not engaged politically and when they're 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 special interests is pushing on it that's where the problem starts but what i propose in my book and the effort that i've been engaged in since i've got the 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's one of the four things that i proposed to clean up the system i think is very important 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 cold. a

bribe but it is a bribe at the end of the day how many members of congress are involved in corruption like that in bribery like that well i mean ultimately every member of congress is 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 so ultimately you can't accept something from somebody without unless you're a very well 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 and you say look 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 the crimes that you committed there's still a sense that you were used as a poster boy is 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 that you are contradicting yourself you're 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 what i don't think so i think people should have the right to give think i've been fairly consistent i not to expect anything in return one a one on why should you expect something in return if there are lot of people who give money in this country by the way because they like the ideology of the candidate of. 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 if 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 congressman they love they want to give him a million dollars because that think they're fantastic and they never ask for a thing from that person i personally think that's all right thank you very hard to track down you ask 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 are 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 i think corruption is illegal in washington

right now thousands of people took to the streets across america to say no to jack abramoff to say 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 instincts told me that they didn't organize themselves like the tea party movement did which was political tea party movement for that matter can pass homeland she went and probably are still in business 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 protests don't really mean that people don't like the purpose of america first of all the destructive there's banda wising there's unsanitary things that go on and most americans are repelled by that but what most americans will respect is political activism an organization on the left or on the right now i think that there is a. anger out there saying we don't have a money to hire

a lot of. well that might not be a bad thing but. you know american people don't need lobbyist 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 help my clients do and like every lobbyist helps their clients do unfortunately had it not being for the jail time would 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 and 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 it took my getting killed for me to come that he'd realisation that mission in there what do you plan to do. in the process of. possibly one amp of the t.v. show thank you. wealthy british style insults and sometimes because. of. market why not.

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expecting. the circular unit of the sportscast and the army men just keep marching on in the case. exactly right at the end of last year and he said they just couldn't buy a win. they can't stop winning more on that plus the rest of the way these the afternoon sport just a sec. good to have you with us a warm welcome plenty had this hour including big stories and very. big guns move on roger federer receives a walkover while rafael nadal has to prove in court that he deserves to be in three . nice on the ice. to twenty eleven. continue to do just about everything right this year registering their fourth straight key

a child. then there were four we look back at. baltimore as some francisco on the new york giants moved to win one game. forty six. but we begin. where it was left to one of lesser lights to fly the flag for the country and whedon's the qualifier. successfully navigating her way into the third round of melbourne park the grand slam debbie tenth rushing alberta in straight sets six two six one to score her second set up the major but she certainly paying her dues having been on the tour for eleven years to date or i were. to run three the day the first set against. really before her georgian opponent had a fight of things second wozniacki little mention three. six seven six final score. less. elsewhere in the pic

all the action defending champion comply sure swept aside stephanie for its all fronts the eleventh seeded belgian not messing around from the off taking the opener six games to love would drop just the one game in the second set cruising into hunter with danielle a one two later in the week on a six six one. ok it up brings us over to the men's side of the draw were old rivals rafael nadal and roger federer remain on track to meet in the semifinals the spite only one of them needing to play to make the third stage we're number two nidal taking on tommy haas on the day the spaniard looking like his old dominant self fulfilling a disappointing into last year the dull along with you just did rocket into bossing the germans six four six three six four lucas luckily all the buck you up next for this. was but was there much but not. very

strong demanding rhythm with them both when i was in and. so i wasn't. thinking that all that much as a. roger federer will be well rested for his classroom evil carlo which on thursday the swiss not even having to hit the court today after opponent on the back pulled out of their clash with a back marty fish has become the highest rank casualty to dates the seated american going down to one hundred five and john isner he is no stranger to martin rallies haven't taken part in the longest ever tennis match in history in twenty ten his clash with david nalbandian and run to today also going to five sets with the american edging the argentinian ten eight in the decider. set in moscow have well and truly fun their groove in the kontinental hockey league the army men thrashing next to him four one on home ice to claim a fourth consecutive victory boost their chances of

a playoff spot robert fripp down the. the stakes are high it's a scud gearing up to secure a playoff spot in the western conference next to him and trying hard to belly out in the east their first players this season was in the to work with the federal chemists to be stronger than three to tuesday night in the russian capital so the muscovites fired back in style just four minutes into the game that they're just lost one is going to give their only man belief one nil that he said kept on building up pressure here is the spark given through the visitors the fans i. need to him excel at their chances in country tax keeping the host goalie the rest is lost on a busy show no skills. however it was just scuff the score again said additional gov question in seconds after the

first intermission to make it to moon stanek at shining city one shot after another while he still mates kept on scoring in putting one man down nicolas cursing breaking away and netting stuff here. and when it came to the our main goal play the brumbies bundeswehr that alexei yashin ripped up the scoring for neil eight news from the funny 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 also confidence not just a damn good thirty tonight we can renew the game because the boys can score and. the lock is on our side so. it's always easier when you are born. this got cleaned

their fourth consecutive win only thursday. placed in a much tougher challenge did he turn to green club winners of course for the r t mr. russia claim yet another gold medal at the first ever winter youth olympic games taking place in austria the c.s. said of us winning the women's cross country five kilometer classic the russian completing the distance in the time of fourteen minutes eighteen seconds to be a memory a live picture. and fall to meet up with the team russia topped the medal stand in job growth in china with buy gold on the level gong it's. ready for another installment of the biggest rivalry in club football it is barcelona versus holders reality tonight in the cup of delray quarterfinals the first twenty twelve usual barsa coach pep guardiola is talking up his opponents to some computers i

guess that will put the issue of the on the champions so this competition and the leaders of the spanish league they also have the best record in the champions league group stage all this time is over we're playing against the strongest royal we can ever face in any competition at the local where we should be ourselves in play the best possible games trying to school goals without with thoughts on the second leg open one though. on we end with american football where four teams are remain in what's been a wily. baltimore sun francisco on the new york giants the squads with super bowl forty six on their minds he looks back now at how they moved much of the big downs . starting in the a.f.c. where the baltimore ravens were more than ready to play spoiler against the houston texas team coming off their first playoff win ever in their maiden appearance houston though unable to take care of the ball like they did in their thirty one to ten win over the cincinnati bengals in the wildcard round

a muffed punt by the texans jacoby jones allowing baltimore to run the table early on joe flacco taking advantage of a short field to find tight end chris wilson for a seven to three lead the texans made a game of it but rookie quarterback t.j. yates had three interceptions and couldn't deliver when it mattered most the ravens winning twenty to thirteen they now face a patriots team whom they crushed thirty three to fourteen back in the two thousand and nine players. new england no doubt remember that embarrassing home loss in the wild card round the patriots don't play nothing like that team of a few years ago absolutely demolishing the denver broncos at the weekend tom brady throwing six touchdown passes the tie the postseason record in a forty five to ten rom. the three time champion seven now one nine straight games and ended a three game playoff win the streak and some style new england the only high octane

office of team still in the hunt after both the new orleans saints and the green bay packers crashed out over in the n.f.c. the san francisco forty nine er scame out fighting against the saints with alex smith finding vernon davis to draw for his blood the imposing tight end would play an even bigger role later on and it looked as if the saints would once again out score the opposition in the fourth quarter. mind size speedster derren sproles out in the new bring the defense to make it twenty four to twenty three smith however found davis again when san francisco was down by three with just nine seconds left in the game saying safety roman harper feeling the pain of that thirty six to thirty two loss on a collision with a twenty seven year old the red hot new york giants will now try to stop the forty niners after a confident when all the reigning champions green bay it came next exposing the packers security to steal by all running the shaky defense and making it ten to

three in the first quarter. ends few teams ever score in a last second wrong vom to end the half but the giants benefited from a resilient mix again as the twenty four year old held onto the ball to make it twenty that sent the break one of the best often says in the national football league just unable to get it together in the second the packers ryan's brand fumbling the ball allowing the giants marial manningham to score thirty seven to twenty how it ended meaning there will be a new super bowl champion this year the remaining teams now just one win away from their respective conference titles and a trip to the biggest game of the n.f.l. season yvonne's a gorski r t s has all gearing up to quite a super bowl run in all your sports now though whether it's twenty four hour r.t. .

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it's five pm here in moscow you're watching our show you live with me and from now on our top story moscow is vowing to do everything it can to make sure the u.n. security council doesn't sanction a military intervention in syria that pledge from russia's top diplomat as he wrapped up a briefing on twenty eleventh's foreign policy parties peter all over if foreign ministry. blames the assad government the opposition fighting continuing in the country. to see both sides put down their weapons and come together around the table to try and hammer out a peaceful solution to what's happening there so what was new that was said by said wednesday is the proposed peace talks that are being put forward by the arab league which could take place in cairo.