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[captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: javier represents the thirty first district including the studio. we moved to a new studio earlier this year, so we are in your district now. >> don't go anywhere. tavis: i might be wanting some favors, though. can i say that on pbs? can i bribed congressmen on national television? he is a ranking member of the subcommittee. have you back. i hate to remind you of this but last time you were on this program, in the other studio, you had just taken on a new assignment and you failed miserably. the super committee had just been announced. i was glad there was an hispanic on the committee and an african american. what do you have to save yourself? >> i tried. but at the same time, common ground has to be perceived by all sides. i'm not going to cave to get a common ground. there are various dark visions of what moves this country forward. i suspect your book that is coming out will probably speak to those different divisions of america. we laid didn't succeed, forward in this super

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[captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: george pataki served three terms as governor of new york, following his time in the state legislature and as the mayor. he joins us from new york. it is an honor to have you on this program. >> it is an honor of being on with you. tavis: you were on most people's lists a couple of years ago as may be one who would run this time around. first tonight, why did you decide not to run? and do you regret it when you see a lot of folks in your party having trouble coalescing around mr. romney? >> let me start at the end there. i think there is not really a problem coalescing around governor romney. it was a difficult, long, drawn- out primary process. probably too many debates, but i think there is a growing consensus that we have our nominees. is governor romney and it is time to get behind him in the general. i did think about going on for it myself, but to be perfectly honest, i love what i'm doing in the private sector. i'm having such a great time. i spent more than 20 years in p

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[captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: back now with jack abramoff, his book is called "capital punishment we're trying to get into what he found themselves into with this cesspool that i call washington politics. a broken system where money and politics seem to be so intertwined in the nation's capitol. i closed the conversation by asking you what you were doing the lobbyists and why you got involved in the process. from a political point of view, what was your endgame, politically? >> i was a republican, a conservative republican. one of the things was to bring more of the republican presence on the capitol hill. they had a project called the k- three project. i wasn't really a participant in the sense that -- at the beginning, i was a supporter of it, but not necessarily all the way through. we did a lot of work on college campuses, and one of the things that disturbed me was that we had no money. the executive director with a harvard mba paid $1,000 a month, the highest paid individual organization. they were paid $100 a month. i would ask them to help us. we

[captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: he is the president of the national american council that include a treacherous alliance and the latest is called a single roll of the dice. he joins us tonight from washington, is good have you back on the program. >> let me start by asking the obvious, what your expectations are for these conversations this weekend. are they high or low? hong >> i think we should keep the expectations low. expect a necessarily breakthrough. both sides have come to the table and stay at the table perhaps, and we can have a little higher outcomes. i want to emphasize both sides. we have seen how domestic politics in both countries have made it very difficult to actually compromise, and it has led to the current state of affairs. >> is that why the expectations are so low? >> at the end of the day, we are coming to the table at a time when the stakes are probably higher than they ever have been. but domestically, the ability of the two sides are more limited than they have ever been. it means that we have to have low expectations. tavis: "a singl