ground. >> he had been caught in a drug sting, spearheaded by that hard-nosed federal prosecutor, larry beaumontscooped him up in an operation that i ran. we called it operation snowplow. >> and in court, beaumont showed keane no mercy. >> he was coming at you on all fours, wasn't he? >> oh, god. he was a bulldog. >> jimmy was convicted and slapped with a ten-year sentence. >> it was a pretty stiff sentence, and i knew he didn't expect to get ten years in that case. >> your father was in the courtroom. >> i knew i had let him down in probably one of the biggest ways you could let somebody down. >> keane's future was bleak. he faced ten years away from his glamorous life, the fast women, the fancy cars, the big bucks. but in 1998, just when all hope seemed lost, his old nemesis, beaumont, came to him with a chance for freedom. in return, keane would have to agree to risk everything and become an undercover informant in one of the roughest prisons in the country. the maximum security lockup in springfield, missouri. it was a psychiatric prison with both hard-core killers and the criminally insane.

Ñ >>> larry beaumont successfully snuck informant jimmy keane into the springfield prison in 1998.ose him there. >> he goes off your radar. >> he disappeared. a couple weeks we didn't know what happened to him. we were kind of getting frantic. >> two weeks later only after keane's psychiatrist contact returned from vacation did they finally find jimmy. >> by noon the fbi was there and she apologizing. she kept saying, i'm sorry, something happened with the message. >> within minutes they searched hall's cell. but by then the map and the falcons, items jimmy believed could lead to trisha, were gone. >> what were you thinking telling larry hall you're out of here and dressing him down? >> people probably wouldn't understand the mounting pressure. that kettle is ready to boil over at any time, and it just felt good to unload on the guy. >> the problem, as i see it, you've unloaded on him, he knows you're against him but nobody has that map. >> i'm disappointed i had waited a day or two at least. i wish i could have done more for him. but i did all i could do, and i felt in my being th

beaumont, said this. we don't have a revenue problem. instead, it's been a spending problem and it's been a spending problem for a long time. larryaid, if i'm ute of cash i stop -- if i'm out of cash, i stop spending. perhaps congress should do the same what i do in my house. when i don't have enough money i stop spending. congress has a printing press backed by the chinese. ashley says, spending must be stopped. just taking more from americans is not good. if my taxes aren't affected, my employers are. what will happen to me in the long run? i guess i'm going to find out. yes, you are going to find out here on new year's eve. i am fed up on not agreeing to a budget and this out-of-control action has got to stop. renee from crosby, texas, said this. please demand that spending be cut, fraud, waste and abuse be stopped in government spending and address this before anybody thinks about raising taxes on hardworking americans. mr. speaker, the american people, they actually do get it. at least those people who work and pay taxes. the backbone of america, the workers of america, they say stop the spending obsession. mr. speaker, the