earlier i spoke with patrick leahy about what almost seems to be a distongue shung of generations, that arlen specter and many other veterans on capitol hill are willing to work on both sides of the ail, but kind of the younger generations of lawmakers, they are reticent to do so, you are one of those younger generations of lawmakers on the hill. does he inspire you to want to cross the aisle and work things out? >> no question about it, i think he was an inspiration to a lot of us. when i got there, he was in his 25th year. one of the first things he said to me was literally on the way to lunch, he said it's important for to us work together as democrats an republicans it's also important for people to see us working together. he knew at the time and he would say today, onc people see that and they see evidence of it, it's not enough just to make the attempt. and at that time it didn't mean as much to me as it does now. and now probably more so because of the nature of our politics in washington. his suggestions and his advice have even more meaning now. >> pennsylvania senator bob cas

some of the most notable people that receive letters with anthrax in them or senators tom daschle patrick leahy and russ feingold some of those outspoken opponents to the impending patriot act several media outlets also received anthrax letters including the son new york post and the seas tom brokaw now the letters that were sent out appeared to be from muslim terrorists same phrases like death to america death to israel all law is great however soon after the attacks occurred the government acknowledged that al qaeda was no longer a sus. because the anthrax was in fact a highly weaponized military grade that could have only come from two bio defense facilities in the u.s. doug when you tell or fort detrick in maryland but of course that didn't stop the bush administration from continuing to peddle the propaganda that it was perpetrated by muslim terrorists think for a second about what it was that shifted our focus away from al qaeda and onto iraq remember this. a teaspoon of dry anthrax a little bit about this amount this is just about the amount of a teaspoon less than a teaspoon full of dry