jack abram av represented fox com. hale barbour were the two lobbyist. of course those companies contacted us and as jack abramoff and haley barbour did. they wanted to see if their clients can get the fox com contract or the l.g.c. contract. i put it by the wayside. i was serious about this. later when we kept getting complaints from members of congress, not from haley barbour or jack abramoff, i called the n.s.a., the national security agency. they came to my office and we privately met. i said tell me what's the bottom line of this security aspect? they went ahead and they looked at this and we went to a skip room which was in the capital. that's a private room nothing bounces in andot unces out. i won't reveal the information today because of the security, they say it's okay to do these if we do them this way. the israel-based company or the l.g.c. american company. you do it this waying then we're okay. what we did with the contract, it went two j. eagan, the orc at -- cao. we had providers of sprint, horizon or at&t. they would sign off, do you want

i took free food from jack abram loft. gorgever, she meant lake trip. i was not indicted or asked for a plea on that trip. that lake gorge trip, i paid on that lake george trip. the people that went on that trip know that. the people they downloaded, some of my former staff, they know that too that was a personal trip four friends took it and i paid my way on that trip. as far as the thousands of dollars, which the justice department estimates $6000 of my staff and i that we partook in food and alcohol, that's true. over a peers of -- period of three years. what she failed to mention when i would go to jack abramoff, i would shove the bush white house staff to the side to get drinks. i'm my own problem on this. when she mentions kind of highlights it, amendments this is the one that really gets me though. amendments into inserting amendments into the help america vote act. i inserted no amendment for jack abramoff into help america vote act. which was my legacy built with steny hoyer. the first official election bill given with the federal government in

our democracy congressman ney went to jail for his involvement with discreet washington lobbyist jack abrams but he told me his interactions with abrams off paled in comparison to what happens in washington today take a look. in fact the things that jack and i did eating sushi restaurant drinking with him going to scotland that's peanuts today i officially as a lobbyist can take you if you were congressman to alaska we can go honey i can have a three thousand dollar dinner and raise you one hundred thousand i can then take you some family and staffers to las vegas i can have a four thousand dollars dinner i can raise your hundred fifty thousand dollars all of what i just said has happened in all of its legal wow and that's life and that's even far worse than what you inject it was yes and we did bad things and i don't deny that but this now has been caught a fight in the law this one right now lobbyists and corporations can raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for elected officials and thanks to our broken system it's all legal as a result corporations like monsanto are able to spend lots

we bought a company, a young entrepreneur jack abram who wanted to put -- what it does is it gets technology that gets all the local retailer's inventory and puts it on line so you can see what exists when you do a search so you know if you can pick it up. a 25-year-old kid. we put him in chark of e bay local. so he comes about a year ago and said i have a great idea. he said i want to build a home delivery system for retailers that works just like that. so that i'm going to build an ap that any retailer can put their inventory in, a consumer can buy it. i think i can get it delivered to people's homes for $10 or less and maybe for 5 and within an hour or two. i'm like really? and he said yeah. it's going to be easy because here's what we're going to do. there's delivery people all over the street of new york and san francisco and like uber creates usage of excess capacity of drivers and allows you to get a car within three minutes. i'm going to build the same kind of thing so that when someone buys something i'll bid it out to the delivery people, who will deliver it within an hour. and i t

so i don't figure saint jack abram off made me have a dinner. but i watched him on the 60 minute and then i started -- i could feel empathy having been imprisoned. but beyond that, i just wondered where jack was going with this version of history i heard him say i got the short end of that stick in money. but i sat there in all seriousness and thought i want to tell my aunt of it. i wanted to make it more than that. i told this story because i get us constantly. i'm in the district and i get asked all the time, what happened to you? this book tells a complicated story. it's just not as easy as here here i go. it's a complicated story, where i have my part another part to it, so the perfect storm is sorted the way it put together the outside influence is they came in to help with the idiocy i created and also very important to me, our opportunity that we matched to potentially have a dio for iran would've recognized israel, would have disbanded hezbollah. i sent that deal to the white house and they choose to the torrent. i wanted to state that pa

jack abram off and our staffs was the biggest scandal of its time, et cetera. to what week it has been codified into a legal situation today. if i'm a lobbyist, i can take you on team. i can take you to vegas. some republicans went to a bondage club. at least they're getting a little personality. either cited the aisle can do this. citizens united. i five john mccain toys. his worthless as it was back then. you could drive a mack truck through them. at the end of the day was citizens united's ruling and the lack of a true campaign finance reform bill at that time coming of the situation today where super pac comes along and we can pick on karl rove or george soros, whichever side of the aisle you want to skewer. they go after people. in order to counter that means $3 million, 10,000 a day after the race. they get on the telephone. to the dccc or the rcc. that doesn't mean we've got that members. i promise to many members of congress of the mr. change, too. many members of congress do not find it delightful. so there's a lot of good members. i want to make you t