ralph reid, john doolittle, karl rove, dick army, onrad burns, don young. it was all about the money. >> almost everyone on that screen is gone from where they were when they either got in a couple of them are still ce.- there. who did we just see and why did you start withhthose peoplee >> i started with those people because it was interesting to me to show that jack abramoff wasn't on the periphery, that e was at a certain moment in time, his moment, the late 1990's, early 2000's, that he was at the center of washington. and so you saw a lot of people there, ralph reid, karl rove and others, and george w. bush who were right at the center of power in washington, because i think there have been a pretty abramoff in a way to be the scapegoat. not that he didn't do things wrong. he did a lot that was dead--rong. but to lay all the blame at his doorstep as if to sajak was a unique character who operated on the fringes of goveenment, didn't have much affect on somebody. he was at the center, that's why i showed a lot of those people. >> you've done several oth

after the close 2000 election, karl rove and the voter suppression machine took voters suppression toa dramatically new level. they targeted a corn lost votaress -- voter registtation or by ordering the u.s. attorney to indict a corn for voter fraud. acorn has never committed a crime, never committed voter fraud. they have never committed voter registration fraud, having committed any crime. after that, they went out and registered over a million voters. >> i have to cut you off. >> i have -- that is the story >> what he is illustrating fit perfectly in here -- it's a story most americans never hearr, the great work that warren has done and it underscores the responsibility of every progressive organization -- the great work that acorn has done. to go to our next speaker and and comeback to my -pgood friind of feet doesn't -pmind. john is the founder of crops and lyres column of the most influential logs. -- the founder of crooks and liars. he just co-authored a compelling new book titled "ooer the clip -- how the election of barack obama drove the american right in saying." i mention

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know, as far as going back to talking about leaking stuff to the press, think about, you know, the karl rove incident or dick cheney, you know, letting out his secrets, which ended up in the death of a c.i.a. agent, the c.i.a. agent. i mane, come on, you know? host: the top republican on the financial services committee is on the conference committee that's going to meet to craft a financial regulation bill that was meeting with this past week . in his talk with reporters, a question and answer session, one of the things they talked about was about republicans who voted against the financial regulation bill, and if there would be repercussions. caller: in 2008 when i'm voted for the first tarp -- and i voted against the other one, but, you know, people in my district were saying 99-1, you know, i'm opposed to this. and i voted for it because i felt like it was necessary. but it was a near-death experience, i can tell you that, you know, it was a gift that keeps on giving. i just got paths my primary. and it was 76% of the vote. so i think senator shelby, who did not vote for it, and he said

scandals involving former house majority leader tom delay and former white house deputy chief of staff karl rove even though neither was ever convicted of any wrongdoing. but today few investigative reporters are focused on what could be a criminal attemp by the obama administration to manipulate the democratic senate primaries in pennsylvania and colorado. while we don't know all the facts about the administration's actions, we do know the following. it is against the law to offer a government job in exchange for dropping out of a political race. it is against the law for administration officia to interfere in the nomination process of a senate election. and it is against the law to obstru justice. rather than investigative reporters demanding answers from the admistration, we hear only the sound of crickets chiing on the white house lawn. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio rise? the gentlelady is recognized. ms. fudge: i am amazed and disheartened by congressional republicans' attempts to reinstitute the same

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