came out this new book and he says jack egremont came out this new book and he says jack egremont came out this new book and he says jack egremont came out this new book and he says. and don't kid yourselves. i bought capitol hill. and he said best thing i could ever do as well to the congressman or senator's office and find the top staffers then i would say when you get tired of doing this stuff, come see me. i have a six-figure, seven-figure job waiting for you. and the minute there i slid up, you know we had then. and he said, not only would they say, you know i say jump and they'd say how high, but they bring me the hurdles. they say here is what's going on in the office. don't you want to know about this? joshua to influence this? and again, he's a great conservative example that the whole system -- the whole system is so corrupted by money. and i have time to very representative of their represents the people who put them there. red state, blue state conservative liberal, let's have a grand clash that the founders intended. that is not what is going on in the american people on b

of people on the streets and the wave of cyber attacks on government websites testers are saying egremont designed to protect intellectual property rights would lead to censorship. tough sport. hello there sport or not to good company again this coming up in the program. in the australian open victoria azarenka of belarus beat defending champion came close to in three sets to make her first ever grand slam final. still beat. fast on home court in basketball if you're really to claim that twelve straight wins in the twenty minutes. and in england scotland carp liverpool are fruit to the finals to face second tier side cardiff city. so let's start with the australian open way victoria has reached her first ever grand slam final after beating defending champion kim clijsters of belgium in three sets the third seeded belorussian to open a six four but lost the second set six one in the decider it was strong again claiming it six three and the match next start for the twenty two year old. rushers marish up of all of the czech republic the two are currently in action in their heat of last year'

of people onto the streets after wave of cyber attacks on government websites testers are saying egremont designed to protect intellectual property rights will lead to censorship. talks to a british author whose recent book entitled after the arab spring predicted the egyptian revolution gives his expert views on the middle east next. i'm talking to joe and all bradley who's a foreign correspondent who's dedicated his life to writing about the middle east to publications all round the world in the wake of the arab spring he says fall from the democratic pluralism that the west assumed would take over what's in fact washing into the power vacuum is mists.

from america's most notorious lobbyist and that notorious lobbyist jack abramoff joins me now mr egremont i want to talk to you you have it in the title of your book a hard truth the facts of that so much of what gets done in this town is because of money so i know you outlined quite a few different things what in your mind is the worst part about the system in the way it's set up now but i think the worst part of the system is the fact that a company that's in essence by. bribery legally that people who are lobbying congress for things and people who want things special out of the government are able to give contributions and are able to convey other gratuities to public servants members of congress and their staff that facilitates them getting what they want out of the public treasury and the end of the day though some polite to say it that's bribery and so i think that's probably the biggest problem we have here i think that's a good point a lot of people make this argument a lot of lobbyists i speak to that i interview down the street on k. street they say you know lobbying is the rig