anything jack abramoff and i did, i ate sushi with jack abramoff and i went to scotland with jack abramoff. if i'm a lobbyist and you're a congressman today, i give true examples in the book that happened. examples in the book sometimes with names omitted for a reason. you can produce names. if i want to i can take you to alaska. we can hunt. we can have a $3000 to $4000 dinner. we can do that and i can raise you $75,000. i can then take you a staffer and may be some of your family, we can have a $2000 or $3000 a dinner. it's all legal. as long as we stand and at the reception and eat. i can have meals. alice fisher in her announcement, see said congressman used fundraiser. everybody on that hill today. i was charged, i pled guilty. give me break. the entire >> what do you mean by a lohse? >> those are the types of things where they say, he used private allowance. >> here's some video, tom rogers you mentioned. i want to you take a look at him and you can tell us what role he played. [video clip] >> there's not too many native americans in the country. i had people who trusted me who came

and look jack abramoff is a name that actually has not come up here.he's the picture of modern disgrace in washington, right? the disgraced lobbyist. one of the many books i read in preparing this book was his memoir, which he wrote, i think, largely i don't know if he wrote it in prison. but i think a lot of it was probably derived from his ruminations in prison. he told about how he knew as a lobbyists, he would have all these relationships with people on the hill, people in the white house, people-elected officials. and at a certain point, they would say, "hey, you know what congressman x? or you know what, staffer x? you're really good at this. when you're done -- have you thought about what you're going to do when you leave the hill?" and they'd say, "well, not really." or they would just sort of leave the question open. and jack abramoff said, "i knew that when i could ask that question, i owned him." because there's a pre-emptive bribe there. it's -- you know, "you're going to be making maybe a million dollars at my lobbying firm, if you answer

professor of strategic studies abramoff told me there's no underlying hypocrisy though here in the rest. the diplomat to know was actually humiliated she was strip searched and handed and handcuffed and this was you know i mean this is this this was where we are and usually incident and there has been pouring of anger in india and the marines have retaliated against the american diplomats in new delhi by would drawing some of the religious right or moving the security barricades around the u.s. embassy in new delhi and warning of further actions against u.s. diplomatic spaced in india this is the kind of hypocrisy that we see in the united states that they apply one standard for their own diplomats were posted overseas and apply a different standard for foreign diplomats who are based in the united states the ultimate india has been such that a lot of members of parliament i did mining action reciprocal action by in other words the asking for a presence and the big story tonight a far reaching out misty bill that could pardon tens of thousands of people's being passed in russia's parlia

this reminds me of what happened post abramoff. the bush administration went crazy. prosecutor decided they were going to make a point. their lives were meked only to be told we don't have anything on you. this is outrageous. >> ted stevens is the perfect example. ted stevens had to die for people to go wait a second. we were overzealous. i would give eric holder credit on this. he went to the excesses and the abuses of the bush justice department. he took care of some of them and some of my friends were told, we're sorry. we apologize. move on. in this case, they are going out of their way to try to grab headlines and i'm glad they are delayed. bob mcdonald paid his price. >> the thing about this is this is a state statute-driven offense. the state statute allows for this to happen. that's the mistake. >> they should change the law. >> would never do it. i'm sure your family would have never done it. i think this is totally unseeming. to prosecute a man and his wife for following basically what the law allows. >> i would say i'm confused about the difference between