so did neil and bob. what's really instructive about their relationship too is that in the case of neil, he did the classic washington journey where he comes to congress as a staffer with a congressperson, but then over time, realizes oh, my god, i really need more money, i need to do better with my life, so he crosses to k street where he can make the really big bucks. he starts to work for jack abramoff. then even though he's not supposed to, he starts immediately lobbying his former boss, bob ney. and it's the use -- it's the corrupt use of those personal relationships that lobbyists excel at. and so it was very important to have in the midst of the story. in terms of hhw i got him to talk, i mean, i went to neil right after he had been sentenced and just said, look, and let's talk off the record, let's just talk. and i told them about what i was trying to do. i said i was interested in him. and would he be interested in talking to me in sort of a broad way about his own experience, but with a larger c

neil volets is interviewed for the film. i went out to the marianas.ue schmidt, who helped to break the whole monica lewinsky scandal is interviewed for the film. this is not like a packettof liberals ganging up on republicans. it's just the opposite. it's actually more or less from the inside-out of the republican party. and i did i think what gary didn't do. gary didn't go out to the marianas. gary didn't go to speak with the tribe in el paso, texas. he didn't go to l.a. he didn't talk to bob nay. he didn't talk to adam kaddn. he didn't talk to a lot of people. my view is that i did a pretty thorough job of reporting and filming this story, and i just disagree with what gary says. >> by the way, he calls -- in 3 schmidt did lazy. why would he do that? what's his point on that one? >> that's a good question. gary, in his book, is very angry about sue schmidt's reporting. he believes that she grossly misrepresented the teegwa affair. i think gary's argument is overwrought. susan schmidt and her colleagues won a pulitzer prize. i don't think it was slea

>> i was in the car with neil nicol, my friend.fting through photos he took off the internet or someone had sent him or something. and i said, what's he doing with my picture, you know. it was pacino. they med him look so much like me. he had you down. >> oh, sure. >> larry: he had you down. they had your sister down too. >> yeah, yep. >> larry: when you did this show back in 1997 before going to prison you said you bugged people because you were very forthright and strident. have you changed? >> no. >> larry: will he ever change, morgan -- mayor? >> i don't think so. i think that to a certain degree he's mellowed, but he's not going to change. what he feels, he says. >> larry: the supreme court never -- they refused to consider his appeal, right? they didn't grant certiorari. >> yeah. that's quite a story. >> larry: briefly tell me. >> in 1997 they had the case wherein the supreme court said they really wanted a case where they had standing. in that particular case the person was not terminal and also was not in remedial pain and

. >> neil morphed from the original neil who wanted to be the press secretary to the guy who wanted to be part of the abramoff family. >> now, was it unusual to lose a staffer? >> i've had staffers come and go like a revolving door. >> i'm the poster child for the revolving door. >> the revolving door between government ann k street is an essential part of the washington game. >> there's a law that states you're not allowed to lobby your around the one-year ban and then i just flat out violated it. . signup for our scheduler e-mails @ c-span 2 or -- at c-span.org. >> white is interesting about what happened over the last 13 years is that elections used to be determined by a few officials in the home office. now they spend millions of pounds every yeer and employs dozens of people, hold huge and greg reviews, spends gobs of money on advertising. >> from london's, the prime minister's questioos from the british house of commons. this week, david cameron feel the questions on election reform. the prime minister also responded to calls for tougher gun restrictions. in the wake of the recen

. >> neil morphed from the original neil who wanted to be who wanted to be part of theuy abramoff family. >> now, was it unusual to lose a staffer? >> i've had staafers come and go like a revolving door. >> i'm the poster child for the revolving door. >> the revolving door betteen government and k street is an essential part of the washington game. you're not allowed to lobby your former bosses, and i tiptoed around the one-year ban and then i just flat out . ú? >> what's interesting about what happened over the last 30 years is elections used to be determined by a few. we now have the vast electoral commission spending billions of pounds every year, employing dozens of people on huge reviews, spends far too much on advertising, and then -- [cheers] >> now from london, prime minister's questions from the british house of commons. this week british prime minister david cameron fielded questions on election reform and the british mission in iraq and afghanistan. the rime minister also responded to calls of tougher cannot ricks in the wake of the recent mass murder in west cumb the house ob

and like you and many others, as a mere child in 1969 i watched neil armstrong set foot on the moon. and of course the first word when man landed on the moon was, houston, because that is where nasa at the time and still is headquartered. a lot has come from space travel . a lot of our technology, our electronic technology, our computer technology, scientific knowleege, medical knowledge all has come because america went to space. and as you mentioned, judge carter, did so in just a few years with the challenge laid before us by president john f. kennedy. back in the 1960's and the 1970's and even in the 1980's and before that americans, when determined to do something, they could do it. that's why weewent to space. because nothing was going to get in the way of america going to + space and landing people on the moon. but for some reason and i think political reasons we see the end of that wonderful glorious exploration, the last frontier. america has always led in the space program except when the russians first the -- put the first sputnik into space. and the benefits that have bee

unlike when mills, and neil cavuto had a guy on the was a -- like windmills, neil cavuto had a guy onhe was a numbers cruncher and when he added them up, it was pretty terrible. for instance, it just the land it takes to put windmills on to generate enough power to take over on the coal fire energy. he said to take over one nuclear plant or one -- or a couple of coal-fired plants, you would have to have the space of rhode island. these are things that we should do, but it is going to take 25 to 50 years to do these things. host: the opinions of: on which it appen with the legislation in the country. -- the opinions of glen. we also have mike. what would you like to talk about? caller: i want to talk about two subjects, and don't you cut me off because i know in the past when people bring up these two subjects, you limit their conversation. and the subjects are [unintelligible] and when someone has the opinion against israel. don't you shut me off. i want to know why as americans we have billions of dollars and we still do not control our borders. is this because they want to replace t

host: neil joins us. go ahead.aller: i wanted to comment on talking to the lady who was a law professor, but you're the person who reviewed my calls said i had to speak to this topic. it is all generally related. you have to blame the likes of hillary clinton and her whole crowd who claim to be advocates of education but all they have done is deeducate the people and dumb down the whole nation. now we have this problem where how come people can drill in shallower waters? well, the reason is because people -- there are so many people nowadays who think -- you know, the whole environmental thing is pushed to such an extreme, it is ridiculous, you know? it's like the caller who was speaking previous to your previous guest who said, you know, the problem stems from a welfare attitude and that's just basically correct you have all these people who are really slaves to government, you know. host: neil mentioned shallower drilling off shore. also the fish & wildlife, that's something you said should not be drilled in the

neil from my office here of course deserves great credit as well for his work. it has been a great pleasure to work with rick kessler, shannon winters, allen mikulski, ranking member richard shelby along with his talented counsel john o'hara, margaret roth warren, a brilliant detail-oriented legislative counsel who spent weeks on end here working with my staff and us to make this hopefully the most comprehensive and effective sanctions legislation that we can -- that we can include. i believe i have hopefully mentioned all of the appropriate members of the staff. if i have left anyone out, i will ask permission to revise these comments to include others. there is always the danger of leaving someone out,, and i dont want to do that. they have worked very, very hard. again, these are the unknown people that we don't often get to recognize, but they spent countless hours on this, mr. president, to pull this most comprehensive sanctions conference report together, and we're very, very grateful to all of them and the tremendous work they do every single day. so with

that is the process that we >> given that we are very neil peak oil and a capacity and -- very near the peak oil capacity and given that and conventional oil, like canadian [unintelligible] and evolve an acceptable climate change costs, what plans do we have to move the process flow toward as i am sure he wants to diminish oil consumption drastically before there is another horrendous catastrophe for the that the price of oil spikes horrendously? >> i think we share a lot of the same in stings -- a lot of the same instincts. in the next year, we will intend to accelerate their move to low-carbon. saving energy is by far and away the most low-cost means of closing the gap between our energy use and energy production. we also intend to a accelerate -- to a accelerate to the production of low-carb and sources of energy. that is something we will be bringing forward measures. this is a time of transition. nothing can be done overnight. we're talking about enormous investment that cannot be others suddenly switched off. but we have a route map to a low-carbon economy which really does reduce

as neil armstrong said, it's matfor nation secity. not good idea. t a good idea. and asomeone ned, privatmeetings, let's face it, thoh, if space x ends up having problemin beingbleo effectuate space fght, no question, it wilbe so devastating, we'll have to il them out. we are setting priva companies that have never done what they're going take away from government entity that has been mt successful in al of mankind. this effort, give it to this private companand already kn that if they have the problem ancan'tget the pac flight going, they'll go broke and ve tbail them t. we know that going in. is that smart? itustakes no sense. . as time ns out that's allated, i want to finish with one other thing, going back to israelthe world needs to kno, make no mistake about it,srael isa clos ally. they belve in the sameype of human rights that in this country. and so, w wouldn't an ay with a country that lies in the rights of women, believes in the rights hold dear here? lieves that tre's no ch thing as an norilling of women o have been raped tha has the samkind befs, judeo

caller: i was wondering if you had comment on all the overwhelming entitle -- he spoke with neil can a have you toe years ago that if left unchenged we are greece in five-to-seven years. >> your opinion? guest: we're not greece. e i know your viewers know what's happening in greece that the debt has gone so high that it's caused massive decreases. and they are almost -- and the titanic is exactly what this gentleman said, the long-term costs of our entitlement programs, the pension programs, the health care programs are simply unsustainible. we'd have to tax over 507 of everything our children own just to pay for these programs. so it would be to fix these programs, get the spinding under control and by the way, it's not just in washington. it's as i look in the health care you've got a lot of cities like california and new york that are on the verge of bankrupty. new york declared they cannot pay their bills any foe with people starting to say, no. we can't keep spending. one of my heros right now by the way around the country is governor chris christy of new jersey who has really t

this is a classic instance of what the late neil postman talked about as organic rather than added to change. it changes everything at once. obviously, the $64,000 question is, what is all this going to mean? it is interesting to know where the catholic population is these days. as catholics in the global south set the tone for the global church, what is that going to mean in terms of what catholicism in the 21st century is going to look, feel, smell, and taste like? i will hazard an answer to that question. i need to put an industrial sites grain of salt on the table first. anytime anybody stands behind a podium and starts trying to sell you generalizations about 720 million people, you need to be cautious. for any generalized statement i can make about catholicism, there are millions if not tens of millions of exceptions. nevertheless, i think i can stand behind these four generalized points about the kinds of things we are likely to hear and see and feel from our brothers and sisters in the global south. in general, will find that catholics at the top and bottom, you will find that

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