that doesn't even exist in the state so i took on the dialogue and yet i found my like to say no payola involved in doing that but that's what politicians do in you know in that in that particular instance i pointed that out you know i was i was guilty of that myself but so do you think now right now you're out there and you are a president and that and you're actually supporting i was written that if you think that the system is actually capable of change the occupy wall street might bring that about. ice i certainly hope so i do think it rests on electing politicians that understand this and aren't subject to taking money for for making making decisions i happen to believe that this is a system that's based more on politics than it is on issues and it should be the other way around it should be about issues first it should be about equality it should be about creating. an equal opportunity for all of us that fundamentally this country is about liberty and freedom and personal responsibility that goes along with that so from the personal responsibility standpoint hey given a level play

purchasing organizations with whom the hospitals had contracts with the manufacturers, it ended up being payola. the companies for getting a kick back for the products they would buy from these manufacturers. there was an inventor who created a safety needle. it can only be used once, but it would retract. it was a retractable safety neal. all in all, it ended up costing pennies more to make, but these hospitals had these contracts set up with these manufacturers. as a result, the number is insane. 800,000 accidental needle sticks a year for the frontline health care workers, nurses and doctors who are contracting things like hepatitis and aids. with every accidental needle sticks, you are looking at millions more dollars in follow- up testing and losses. it would have saved money over time to have switched to the more effective needles, but they had these contracts with these manufacturers. it was pretty correct. >> and you end up playing an attorney. >> myself and my partner took this case on. everyone i spoke to said that mike was easily the most brilliant lawyer, person they had ever met. t

payola to history to post one more time together. and i actually relaxed and lead to those.and i don't know if you could predict what their reactions would've been. after all the years they put into it, my reaction was a little bit naÏve still. but elizabeth was smiling because, as they say, elizabeth is a student of history and elizabeth relates for better or worse, d.c. people and perpetuity are going to be joined together and certain obligation for the sake of history to that history see them as they turned 70. i hope i'm not giving away some secret there, elizabeth. [laughter] and so, elizabeth was game to do it appear she said i'm not sure what i was dating her, but i would do it. and hazel said -- hazel didn't say no. hazel said i'm not ready yet. and the operative word there is yet. and i am hopeful that sometime when we're all out of the way and nobody is looking at nobody's paying attention to them that the two of them to come back together again in some way. and that would indeed eat a very important question. it's a mac caring about the story and my book and i'm h