just one more ranch thrown into this whole political quagmire in washington that was paul blumenthal reporter for the huffington post now speaking of lobbying it is not just domestically interest here foreign governments hire lobbyists to have their message heard in washington and as this case shows it can make a big difference in the relationship between countries and the perception of everything from relationships to conflicts to countries policies and artie's kalends board on the third anniversary of the war in south ossetia shows the role that lobbyist played and how that whole conflict has been perceived. three years ago when war broke out between georgia and russia and south a city. by conflict estimated to have killed hundreds and displaced one hundred eighteen thousand in just five days the us media it is like david versus goliath georgia's president says russia is attacking his country and u.s. lawmakers like then republican presidential candidate john mccain today we are all georgians were quick to place blame. and european union report found that one also violated internat

street to ask how could this possibly happen with these the lobbyists in full force i spoke with paul blumenthal a reporter for the huffington post i started off our conversation asking him just what kind of mobilization are we seeing on k. street in response to the supercommittee here's what he said. well we're looking at one point five trillion dollars in cuts to the deficit to the day over the next ten years and that is a huge amount of money for basically any industry and the big thing in this super committee is that we're talking about triggered cuts in health care and defense spending if they don't come up with a different plan bill that a lot more of who gets appointed to the committee will be much more partisan based you're seeing a lot of that political gridlock a lot of the clips that you just showed show that these people are butting heads on both sides and i think that more of the line up of the committee is going to be based on how the parties can play the politics better than the interest groups can play what comes out of the committee so you think that that that actually lobbyist

question relates to my earlier comment, in response to senator bingaman paul's question, and that has to do with sort of richard blumenthal'suestion, and it sort has to do with the general statements. when it hit somebody out of the system, just effected we incarcerate as we do in this country, more people than anywhere else in the world, and we have maybe of the 7 million people in the system, 5 million on probation or some sort of community supervision, but having them out there, instead of the system, saves us money. to the extent we can shut down their return to the system obviously also saves us money. those figures that i gave, the $1,400 per purchase and, -- per participant, and the associated out comes of an individual not remaining in our jails or prisons, but that is where we see the savings and a regular basis. >> 1 no. i heard is the cost of participation is less than $7,000, and the cost of incarceration would be $22,000. and what that the per year? >> i would have to get back to you. i think it is a range, actually. i could get a response for you on that. >> thank you. i have one last question about the synthe