after you finish "winner take all politics" read this one by peter schweizer -- "throw them all out: how politicians and their friends get rich off insider stock tips, land deals, and cronyism that would send the rest of us to prison." peter schweizer is a fellow at stanford university's hoover institution, a conservative think tank, and he's just as outraged as the tea party and occupy wall streeters are at corruption hidden in plain sight. he begins his book quoting the notorious george washington plunkitt, who got rich as a new york city party boss at tammany hall in the 1870s: "there is so much honest graft in this big town that they would be fools to go in for dishonest graft." washington today. which makes me want you to hear a call left on our answering machine after last week's show, when we reported on how the influence of wall street bankers has played out in the obama white house. listen. >> i do not understand why you did not include the fact that ubs was fined $780 million by this administration. surely, you do not want to have people vote republican or for a third party

. >> up next, peter schweizer contends that members of congress profit from insider trading and use their political influence for their own financial gain. this is just over an hour. >> thank you all for joining us here at heritage this afternoon in our louis lehrman auditorium. we, of course, welcome those who join us on our

our guest today is peter schweizer, he's a research fellow at the hoover institution at stanford university from 2008 to 2009 he served as a consultant to the white house office of presidential speech writing. he is also a former consultant to nbc news. have you lived that down? [laughter] among his previous books are, "the reagans -- excuse me, the reagans, "the bushes: portraits of a dynasty." reagan's war, the epic story of his 40-year struggle and final triumph over communism, and "do as i say: profiles in liberal hypocrisy." that book, by the way, was on "the new york times" bestsellers list for eight weeks. in fact, and i love this quote, the economist magazine pronounced do as i say the ninth biggest selling political book on the entire planet in november 2005. additionally, he was executive producer of "in the face of evil," an epic documentary based on his book, "reagan's war," which won the 2000 liberty film festival. and if you'll ask ask the writer, steve ban on, who's with i us today, it's the greatest film ever written. today we focus on his nearest book here, "throw them all

peter schweizer, thank you very much. coming up next, mitt romney's most important speech to date.trying to woo the conservative base to support him. so let's put up the word cloud. there it is. do you see the word "taxes" or "tax reform"? look very carefully. it's a wee little thing. that means he barely mentioned it. so what's his growth plan going to be? how about the other candidates? well, you know what? i'm going to try to help them when we come back. i have a few modest suggestions on supply-side pro-growth tax reform. it will get bigger in the word cloud if they listen to me. ♪ our machines help identify early stages of cancer and it's something that we're extremely proud of. you see someone who is saved because of this technology, you know that the things that you do in your life, matter. if i did have an opportunity to meet a cancer survivor, i'm sure i could take something positive away from that. [ jocelyn ] my name is jocelyn, and i'm a cancer survivor. [ mimi ] i had cancer. i have no evidence of disease now. [ erica ] i would love to meet the people that made the mac