host: harrison williams was the sole u.s. senator that got convicted. mr. wallance, why did some non-congressional members in the city councils, etc., get involved in this fbi sting? host: i referred earlier to the network, the outer circle, these low-level crooks who were selling stolen art or stolen cd's who then put the undercover operation in touch with the next level. that was angelo eric hadi and corrupt lawyers in accra city council. they in turn, after satisfying themselves that they were dealing with authentically corrupt arab sheik then passed the undercover agent, or set up meetings for the undercover team with the congressman and the senator. it was a network from the outer circles to the inner circles that is what really made abscam so defective. host: a viewer tweets in -- now, we covered a little bit of that but please go ahead and revisit that. again, was there a targeting of specific officials or was this going to be wide open to all 535 members of the congress? guest: that is the good -- a good question. in the first instance, there was no

host: harrison williams was the sole u.s.enator that got convicted. , why did some non-congressional members in the city councils, etc., get involved in this fbi sting? host: i referred earlier to the , the outer circle, these low-level crooks who were selling stolen art or stolen cd's who then put the undercover operation in touch with the next level. angelo eric hadi and corrupt lawyers in accra city council. they in turn, after satisfying themselves that they were dealing with authentically then passed sheik the undercover agent, or set up meetings for the undercover team with the congressman and the senator. it was a network from the outer circles to the inner circles that is what really made abscam so defective. in --a viewer tweets now, we covered a little bit of that but please go ahead and revisit that. again, was there a targeting of specific officials or was this going to be wide open to all 535 members of the congress? good --hat is the a good question. in the first instance, there was no targeting of an official.

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william henry harrison. out in 15 days. no.i have the background in new jersey, an interesting story for me to cover, but i've never seen an example of a lane closure on a bridge in one state becoming a scandal that's almost covered a presidential level and it's because christie -- what accounts for it? at the start of the show, went through jim mcgreevey, investigations as governor. big news in new jersey. nobody cared outside of new jersey. everybody cares about this. it's because christie is such a -- a national figure and it's such an understandable and mysterious scandal. >> definitely. and it plays to this image or idea people have of him he is a straight talker but maybe perhaps can be a bit of a bully. one of the things especially moderates and independents like about him, he's not afraid to go against the tea party and the conservative base. he rebukes the house of representatives when they wouldn't approve sandy aid and put republicans in washington on blast. but the traffic element is fascinating to me, because every

. >> william henry harrison. >> that's right! i'm not sorry" written by a woman called amy glass. and in it she explains that women who get married have children and make the mistake of raising those children are loathsome. she says this, do people really think that a stay-at-home mom is really on equal footing with a woman who works and take cares of herself? there's no way those two things are the same. i hear women talk about how hard it is to raise kids and manage a household all the time. i never hear men talk about this. if you did, women secretly like to talk about how hard managing a household is so they don't have to explain a lack of their real accomplishment. women will be equal with when when we stop demanding that it be considered equally important to do housework and realwork. >> she goes on to speak hateful about those who do laundry and cook dinner for their family and kids. the upbringing of your children, the future of our society is important. so i disagree with the hateful tone of her language, but some things