tell us about richard gephardt. >> richard gephardt is someone who, again, is an elected official, a congressman, a presidential candidate. one of the most passionate and seemingly sincere people you would ever see. i remember one of my favorite political events ever was seeing him on the eve of the iowa caucuses in 2004 in a teamsters rally in marshals town, iowa. you had the huge trucks coming in. he's the son of a milkman driver. he was really -- he got clobbered in iowa. but it was a really great labor rally. then as soon as he got out of office, he represented any number of corporate interests but i would say spotty records in labor relations. he produced a number of positions. richard gephardt has become, i think, seen by many as an epitome as someone who checked whatever ideals he had at the door once he left congress in the purposes hoff doing well after. >> you say by 2010 gephardt government affairs was listing the annual billings at $6.5 million up from a pin nance of $625,000 in 2007. in addition to having a top door roster, goldman sachs, 200,000, visa, 200,000, gephardt

. >> richard gephardt. >> richard gephardt -- former house majority leader.two-time presidential candidate. a hero to organized labor. >> son of a teamster. >> son of a teamster, milk truck driver. gave some of the most impassioned campaign rallies i've ever seen in places like iowa and -- >> for working people. >> for working people. i mean, he seemed like the real deal. he became a lobbyist, like a lot of members of congress do. and he since has worked for a lot of corporations. >> goldman sachs, boeing, visa, i get from your book. >> yeah. i mean, again, many of them not terribly friendly to organized labor. >> in congress, as you say, he fought for labor. but then he went to work for spirit aero systems, overseeing a tough anti-union campaign. and then in the house he had supported a resolution condemning the armenian genocide of 1915. when he left congress he was paid about $70,000 a month by the turkish government to oppose the resolution? >> yeah. i mean, i guess the word, "genocide" goes down a little easier at those rates, right? i mean, i don't see

important you uses prime examples trent lott build thousand john breaux former house minority leader richard gephardt no one comes out really good yeah i mean there are there might be a few i mean look this is not a city that really should be feeling as good about itself as it does i mean there's there's great disappointment across the country for how congress for instance is leading how the two major parties are leading how the media is performing and and frankly i wanted to sort of really describe for people who these people are what this town looks like and frankly this is the wealthiest community in the united states now i mean the washington metropolitan areas home to seven of the ten wealthiest counties in the united states at a time when the rest of the country has struggled and look i am having fun in that i think the book is fun in that it describes a lot of pretty rich scenes and it includes a lot of bold faced names and stuff but there is a serious point here which is that washington and the capital of washing the car. but all of the united states has been given over to self-service when t