right message, and harry reid may have been bought by washington, d.c., but he bought into washington dc. and so, i am going to tell you this evening, that we have the right angle to defeat harry reid. [applause] thank you so much. thank you. thank you all for being here. we are going to go forward. thank you. thank you is so much. >> we can, and we will. >>

>> it is a good example of how d.c., how journalism works in dc. if you are just getting your start in journalism, you are younger, making friends with staffers on capitol hill, they are in the same age group, single just mary, don't have kids. you see people on the weekends and at night and make friends and relationships. and relationships. i am a reporter, i can help them. there capitol hill staffers, they can help me. you learn what people are like outside the office. you have a party and invite them, and you go to their parties. and you that emily miller had dated michael scanlan. i knew that michael scanlan had left the office and work for abramoff. that is this something i knew about. when abramoff was first charged or when the story first broke about abramoff, i started mining that bread. it just seemed like an interesting relationship to help. texted she'd talk about that relationship to you? >> no. they were out on the eastern shore. they have probably taken yet on all their real-estate holdings -- taken a hit. michael scanlan has been the

institutions that were in need of organizational reform, those included bing the independent monitor for the dc police department for six yea on use of force issues. i had just started a similar assignment with the virgin islands police department that i had to give up in accepting this job. in addition to that, i did a major investigation of the houston police department crime lab, and the job was to diaose and prescribe recommendations for fixing a range of problems that led to a number of bad outcomes, including wrongful convictions. in addition to that, i did a lot of work for the delaware department of corrections, looking at their program to provide medical and mental health care inmates and helping them bring their standards and practices up to snuff. so that's my background that i think is relevant. and the truth is, i knew relatively little about this ency until a couple weeks ago. and it was a request from what secretary salazar and the president himself to take on the challenge of running this agency of revamping this agency, as chairman feinstein mentioned changing the culture of th

i was at, not the first ever tea parties and the rest of the country, but the fiist in dc. mark hemingway. 67 reporters. it was not clear what this event was going to be. for years, plugged in conservatives have put on the events and invited their friends. we saw this throughout the bush years, conservatives trying to put something together that would shame republicans into behaving better, or in 2009 to convince everyone only ron paul nothing happened. not sure who was there yet -- they started a web site and put this together, and it looked like it was going to be a pivotal event where 50 people showed up. it was plugged in on facebook to a lot of people in their 50's and 60's who told me they had not been to political rallies before. they always had rallies a couple of people would show up to and talk about the speed at which of or should get out of dick cheney's house, but these were people -- al gore should get out of dick cheney's house, but these were peoole who told me they have not done this before. these were people who were able to get on-line and organize. i do