well i think as you mentioned bob livingston was known to be somebody you could work with he was a key member he was chairman of the appropriations committee you know so we worked with him but i have to be pessimistic right now i've never seen the country so divided on issues i've never seen the congress so dysfunctional and partisan i don't know what it is larry i think it's the the effort to raise money go on cable t.v. they shorten the days when you're in the congress when bob and i were there we you know our families would get together we'd get the go each other they don't do that anymore not even the senate either now look i don't want to be a pessimist i think there's an opportunity twenty twentieth's coming the president's going to want to get reelected we're going to want to elect a democratic president so we have to produce something the last two years of produced in my judgment very little other than a tax bill and maybe some other smaller bills but i think bob is right prescription drugs the drug crisis infrastructure would be huge of they came together maybe a little more b

and larry flynn gets a lot of information and bob livingston refers to himself as being flynted and is forced to resign. >> let's get back to monica lewinsky because she is the main scoop that you have in this story. let's get back to some of what might resonate today with the fbi. this is what she says when she was finally entrapped by linda tripp and it led to her being imprisoned in a hotel room practically and all of the wiretapping. let's have a listen. >> i kept asking, could i call my mom? they kept saying, no. he said, you're 24. you don't need to call your mommy. you need to make a decision about what to do. and so i said, well then, you should know i'm leaning towards not cooperating. and he said, well, you should know that we're also planning on prosecuting your mom for the things you said she did on the tape. >> basically told her, listen, you don't need to call your mommy. you're a big girl. you have to make some decisions on your own while you still can. >> and i basically stood my ground and said if they would not let me call someone, call my mom, i couldn't make this de