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A texas court is overturning the conviction against the man once considered one of the most powerful figures on capitol hill. the former house majority leader tom delay was convicted on money laund laundering charges in 2010 for attempting to influence state elections. he was sentenced to three years in prison but had been free on bail pending appeal. now this court has overturned his conviction. he has been found not guilty. we will invite tom delay to join us to discuss how he goes about worki...

Therefore i got a big -- it may work in the short run but in the end the country loses. >> i have lived long enough to be able to say this. forget about politics. whenever you make an important decision in your life when youre mad, there is an 80% chance you will make a mistake and you will get exactly what you do not want. >> lets talk about that phenomenon in american life since you left office and its gotten worse, much worse, of this fiery negativity. >> hum. i dont know how it could get muc...

>> greta: its time to hash it out. oh, no. foxs own geraldo rivera making headlines again on twitter. easy now. its not a new selfy. tweeting honored to be asked to do "dancing with the stars". its a great show. i cant for lots of reasons including a bad foot. declining an invite to compete on "dancing with the stars". its too bad we were hoping for another wardrobe malfunction from geraldo. more like a tom delay wardrobe faus paus. do you remember those pants? we dont think theyre going to get ...

Call 1-888-xarelto or visit goxarelto.com. when we talk about texas as a bright red state we should put an asterisk on that. texas has not always been bright red or red at all for all that long. it was only 2002 when texas republicans got control of the legislature. theyve been out of power in the statehouse since the end of the civil war. since reconstruction. in 2002, texas republicans took over. they already have the governorship, but as of 02, they had the legislature and this guy. republi...

Maps, right, of the 2000 census. just two years later, in 2002, once republicans were in charge, tom delay decided he wanted to redraw the maps again. theyd only done them two years before but he wanted new maps drawn by the new republican majority. that would make all their seats safe, the new republican majority a permanent majority. because republicans were in the majority and democrats were in the minority, the texas democrats could not stop this surprise redistricting by tom delay and the t...

Statehouse since the end of the civil war. since reconstruction. in 2002, texas republicans took over. they already have the governorship, but as of 02, they had the legislature and this guy. republican congressman tom delay who would like it if youd call him the hammer. tom delay would leaf congress and get convicted for money laundering. before all that, back a decade ago in texas, he was still swinging the hammer. like the rest of the country, texas had drawn up new election maps, right, of t...

Bad. then came tom delay, the tea party, all these people who dont believe in government at all. why are they there? all they want to do is disrupt. >> you watched that. you came to congress after the 72 election and you saw that growth, that development, that evolution on the right where back in the 60s and 70s you had pragmatic, who wanted to do something, the birth and rise of gingrichism, as you say, that philosophy still dictates. can you talk about watching that evolve and the origins of t...

Sided in a way you should never be blind sided if youre running the house. >> its even more fascinating when you consider that republicans in the house have openly talked about the hassett rule being the hindrance or the obstacle to them bringing up immigration. john boehner, the speaker, who i like, but john boehner, who got beat up by his own caucus, who suggested he would bring immigration to the floor without having the majority of republicans, having that discussion with this taking place i...

>> its amateur hour. you never put -- you remember everybody that thinks that they know about being a lawyer always gives you advice before you go to law school, and they go, remember, perry mason never asked a question where he didnt know the answer first. well, thats the case here. you dont -- i mean, i had a lot of problems with newt gingrich as speaker. i had a lot of problems with tom delay as whip, but they didnt do this. if they brought something to the floor, they made sure they had the ...

I was remembering when there were battles, battle last decade, with democrats stopping, you know, judiciary nominations from george w. bush and i remember how successful it seemed to me, the right was at mobilizing evangelical christians behind the effort to get george w. bushs court picks confirmed. i hadnt seen similar outrage i think to that level on -- on the left yet. what were the keys to getting the right so motivated to go? >> i think -- you are referring back to these justice freedom su...