fraud and tax evasion mistake thank you very much for 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 capitol help i'm not as 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 mation 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 decided that 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 there mel 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 corruption and me wrecking the democratic system i was thinking back to the breakfast i had with him a couple years before where i handed him checks from my clients as 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 i 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. by 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 on porch name 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 say that and i found it very very interesting that that once you just a moment you offered a job to a congressional staffer you own 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 saw it 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 influence industry in america what did your clients want by investing in politics by investing in you well mostly my clients want to the federal government not to. get all over the back and tax them and their businesses most the lobbying is deep that's keeping the government from doing things to industries and to companies and likely going to help them avoid to the haystack today or by the way i've got 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 and what was interesting about your case it was not just politicians who cheated but also use. clients namely those indian tribes with gambling interests who paid them

aliens and what i thought 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 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 we're going to have any regrets about doing that well at the 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 problem is the average citizen here 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 a special interest is pushing on it that's where the problem starts so what i propose in my book and the effort that i've been engaged in 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's one of the four things that i've proposed to clean up the system i think it's 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 country. and i want something from you that contribution may not be cold

a bribe but it is a broad at the end of the day how many members of congress are involved in corruption like that thing bribery like that well i mean ultimately every member of congress who's taking a check contribution from a lobbyist or from a company or from a union or anyone who needs or get something from washington whether it's conscious or not they're involved in it alternately you can't accept something from somebody without unless you're at their all doing well 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 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 fuel 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 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 and 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 the reason why 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 is perfectly fine in today's politics you know but i don't think so i think people should have the right to get think i've been fairly has this night and not to expect anything in return one on one on why should you expect something in return. 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 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 they have been 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 and watched live 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 things the problem is that they didn't organize themselves like the tea party movement did which was politically tea party movement had a dramatic impact on the last election and probably will still in this election and i spoke 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 street protests don't really meaning that people don't like street protests in america first of all the destructive there's banda wising there's unsanitary things that go on in most americans in 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 anger out there and you 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 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. tele tarion 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 importunately had it not being for the jail time which you've been just this week 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 been 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 that would realisation that i should have been there what do you plan to do. in the process of. possibly one amp with a t.v. show thank you. no. this is claude. nolen sitting on the edge over the past and present. mixing reality that's nothingness.

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police violence amid a mass of ongoing anti-government protests. those were the top stories of the week and to hear sports news with kate. thank you for joining me and here are the sports headlines easy does it rafael nadal sweeps aside. to rush into the quarter finals of the australian open while defending women's champion kim clijsters is also through after a thrill up. top flight through large holes chelsea while bolton is done little call on a pulsating day in the english premier league the top zero point action later. an advantage respects no all russian final at the friendly tournament in dubai with pakistan and the koreans are starting to line up a meeting with the neat. but first to tennis and second seed rough on the doll has

beaten fellows bonifacio on a low pass in straight sets to pick a place in the quarter finals of the australian open the two thousand and nine champion was broken only once as the east to a six four six four six two victory against misfiring davis cup team in their first was guilty of an event a big thank you to those. little balls enough in their ranks. for the very is one of my best friends and. that's the game that's the sport and you understand. agape. everybody wants to win their way by one storm to have. the ones who can emerge with the was a better result but the emotions are similar you know it. happens very often. well up next for the dollars big serving thomas burdick who conjured up twenty six's in his grueling and also rid of the space nicolas almagro to check his beard

after the match as the seventh seed refused to shake hands with his opponent harvey took offense at our marker return to the ball towards his head to force said he didn't accept your apology as. well while argentina's one martin del potro had an easier time of it against philipp kohlschreiber of germany lot full time champion roger federer is currently taking on fast rising local favorites but not to make. in the world defending women's champion came close just played through an ankle injury and saved for match points to start a french open champion enough prices landed awkwardly at three all in the first set which leaves one before taking a sixty second set total break but i still take the search six. on the belgian the next place i the world number one caroline wozniacki or united yankovic's place are. well informed by the russian victoria azarenka hit a nifty forehand winner to brush aside after the measure of the czech republic six two six two remember three sea world it's another mystery victory and. runs next

as aren't there is eight seed agnieszka i grabbed the pole needed less than an hour to overpower germany's really a go get six one six one that was going for the injury three steps back of. football now and on pulsating saturday evening the english premier league bolton stunned liverpool three want the reebok stadium to change their first points over the reds since two thousand and six and moved out of the bottom three well while elsewhere blackburn to graduate drawers added in but stayed in the bottom three clint dempsey became the first american to score a premier league cap trick is full and came back to thrash newcastle five to keep it all moved out of the drop zone with a three one win over the weekend to stay bottom graham dorrans starting pitch time free kick a west brom. there first when i was staking ten games to want something and it's one of these four game unbeaten run to now robbie keane scored twice against his former club as aston villa one three two ten nine while the rich further dented

chelsea's title hopes of the goalless draw blues manager and defended strikers than their torres his goal this drought has now extended to seventeen games. really and i think. the first half movements are sharp and effective. trying to get. schools that he wants but is a major impact also in our offensive. meanwhile this sunday sees two more crunch time is league leaders manchester city post third place tottenham last second place manchester united travel to lost her fist. further meantime russian champions in it will face was back in stands olympic team in the final of the friendly match world cup in dubai after the ten man side edged russian premier league outfit one nil it was a winner takes all match in the emirates after by side one american matches and the

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belorussian this isn't that an eight for leave for the american would eventually top score with nineteen points but still skull put themselves into the driver's seat why did they. never look back at such a can lead to their charge with a team high eighteen points and some of them got. six more place finished in double digits for tesco who eventually won it one hundred ten to six they must go club chalking up a nice win intent game since the start of the regular season thank you to make the training session a match to some. form of life in the world and she well our opponents aren't quite at the same level as arse and the other teams in the lead what about all that still any team can beat another team at any given time if you don't give your all so i'm happy with the way i played. funny and sounds of spectators flooded the latvian capital of reeker on saturday to watch the east remain unbeaten against the west in the fourth all star extravaganza rabbits but only on reports. let in hockey

fans first note for the stars on say it was their turn to meet the biggest hill and europe strongest league has to offer at the cato all-star game twenty twelve with one of the greatest russian players of all time sergei further of living the pick of the eastern conference and the pride of lebanon hockey sand this was a lynch captaining the best from the west that is why for the first time in the history of the event the arena that with down thousand spectators were passionately behind one side the west. and also mentioned cool promptly to believe in the so-called super skills show which is a traditional warm up ahead of the all star games with another local idol number rigorous miccolis world leagues winning the fastest skater competition. after three more contests the western conference two were still on britain although their

opponents from the east managed still to show and win. with drugstores aleksandr results of producing a record breaking one hundred eighty three kilometer you know what heat in the heart of the shot contest and sergei further up edging out sun this also brings in the captain's deal which saw some extra hockey skills on display from the two legends i think will like it. being. signed this way like that it was it was sort of very technical serials it was different it was new the words were like it and it was it was going in a very mean well the most like getting qantas shoot outs left many if it's really possible in this world. what's bugging mr assented the juror sankoh is the reason i don't know how those they look like the packers going our way and then all the side became back this way so i don't know if you know he's a magician. a secret was that i just made

a tiny hole in the park and pollution one through. my father told me the street she did the job on no three previous occasions take a chill star game so the team from the east claimed victory over the peak of the west so this time around priest help we were about to witness something more than just a friendly showcase ultimate the real deal moderate the action started with no goals in the first ten minutes of the match proving the teams were not just having fun on ice just as they promised before the game we had a winning streak on so i think. it might be up for grabs today as above the players on both sides i think are going to try a lot harder to to one of the sides they get when another belts. it was the west open the scoring and goals galore while begin to roll the teams to turn schooling and taking the lead but if there are periods under way on level terms all the off

to the further fifteen sports who are in their roles to make it twelve eight the outcome was inevitable the team from the east remains unbidden at the cage all star games fifteen eleven the final score i think it begins as a friendly. friendly game canonizing these and then and soon as the somebody gets ahead i will bet more the other steam starts to. where you again can't let it get away like that just standing gradually becomes a little bit. more more competitive than it was in the beginning but still a long game nobody wants to get hurt of course and. have a good time and enjoy themselves this time around was different from any i appear i think it was. twenty interesting combinations i think guys basically try to boil off and so if period. has zero we just. for anything else are yeah.

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and a massive ongoing anti-government protests. it is one pm in the russian capital you're watching r.t.l. marina joshua into the program of the arab league's fact finding mission in syria is waiting for the green light to continue its monetary activities for another month the decision is due to come later on sunday as the observers report comes under scrutiny at the league's gathering in cairo that's a bit harsh criticism from opposition groups were. say the observer mission has failed to curb bloodshed in the latest flare up at least fourteen people have reportedly been killed in a roadside bomb attack on a van carrying prisoners in the northwest of the country r.t. sara first joined the observers as the visit a town near the syrian capital damascus now controlled by.