. >> look what the justice department did to ted stevens. >> ted stevens is the perfect example.ed stevens had to die for people to go back to, oh, wait a second, we were overzealous. i will give eric holder credit on this. he went back and some of the excesses and some of the abuses of the bush justice department, some of the overreaching, he took care of some of them. and some of my friends were told, hey, we're sorry. we apologize. move on. in this case with bob mcdonnell, this -- they're going out of their way to try to grab headlines and i'm glad that the justice department delayed it and i hope eric holder lets this go by. bob mcdonnell has paid his price. >> he's paid his price. and the thing about this is that this is really a state statute sdsh driv statute-driven offense. and the state statute actually kind of allows for this will to happen. >> it does allow to happen. >> which is the mistake. someone should change the law. because it is totally unseemly. >> and i would never do it. i'm sure your family would have never done it. i think this is totally unseemly. but to

he also represented ted stevens, and 10 steve -- ted stevens was convicted, but the attorney general through that conviction out. he is a $1000 an hour lawyer in this town. >> yes, he is and jeffrey thompson can afford it. i think we are in for the long haul with this. known, ifllivan is you want to charge my client, we will go to trial. >> you say in your article that vincent gray's attorney is bob bennett. >> yes. yet another big-time attorney. the interesting thing about bennett is that vincent gray's daughter is a very good attorney and she is kind of like a, i guess, one could call her a protÉge of bennett. so there is a relationship there that he has had with fencing great. when gray ran into this issue, he retained mr. bennett. >> let's catch everybody up on this. i know this is a d.c. thing. but i if this book before show some video, how much does the american taxpayer have to do with the district attorney of columbia? if you are far away from here and say, why are they talking about the district of columbia? >> this is the nation's capital. you should also be very interested