. >> lieutenant karen hughes runs the vice squad which includes the pimp investigative team. her unit arrested another a hundred pimps in 2009 while seizing half a million dollars, 19 vehicles, and t17 guns. >> there's this vision of high-classed call girls. >> that's phallicism it's violent, vial, degrading. >> if you're going after the pimp, you're going after the top of the criminal organization and you elimination a lot of the abuse. >> they're making lots of money. they're their new family. he becomes their daddy. >> i haven't been here long. >> we were allowed go along on one of these investigations. we had incredible access. what they do is they have an undercover policewoman stroll down the strip posing as a prostitute and they wait until pimps or would-be pimps approach the woman and try to recruit her. >> i'm in promotions. >> i need a promoter. >> i've got a cameraman here, camera over there, hidden cameras over there, and these guys are just really aggressive. mean, look, i knew this stuff went on, don't get me wrong, but to see it in real time and to be so close

i remember karen hughs and other bush surrogates going after the democratic candidates whenever theyings to do with iraq or the war against terrorists all over the world. so, you know, let's consider history here before we start to say that we are breaking new ground. >> you are making a point that what goes around comes around. some of it is cyclical. the polls show consistently, it's early but romney has the best head to head numbers against obama. will that help him with republicans who are thinking we want to beat this guy or will that matter. >> there are two factors. do they like the person that is running to be the nominee and do they ied logically agre with that person but nomability -- i think it will be filters in to the judgment the voter makes. bill's right about the timing of that. everybody does make an issue who their opponent is. that's the way politics works in the country and there's nothing wrong with that but it is just the timing. i don't remember the bush people doing that in 2003. they waited in to 2004 when there was a known nominee. barack obama is entitled t

and i remember karen hughes and other bush surrogates going after the democratic candidates whenever they opened their mouths on things that had to do with iraq or the war against terrorists, all over the world. so, you know, let's consider history here before we start saying that we're breaking new ground on the democratic side. >> you're making the point, what goes around comes around. some of this is cyclical. ari, the polls do show consistently -- it's early, but romney has the best head-to-head numbers against obama. does that help republicans who are thinking, we're going to beat this guy? >> there are going to be two major factors. do republicans like the people who's going to be the nominee? do they ideologically agree with that person? but electability is also a slice of decision-making pie. and if a candidate cannot look like heir going to beat barack obama, i think that's going to be filtered into the judgment that a voter makes. let me go back to bill's earlier point. bill's right about the timing of that. everybody does make an issue of who their opponent is. that's the

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