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Lobbiest turned around and supported the American People and passed policies that upset his former colleagues greatly. Host and gigi sohn is special council through the fcc and Gautham Nagesh and with the wall street journal. We look forward to having you back. I love the show. I will be back. Cspan created by companies 30 years ago and brought to you as a service by your local cable or satellite provider. Coming up, former graze congressman talks about his trip to iran and scott talks about education and then a talk about defense spending. On the washington journal tomorrow virginia congressm...

Talk about a small world, though. It blows your mind. Back to your point, i arrived inat 3 30 in the morning and i think every light was on when i flew in. Was it thursday night . It may have been. Anyway every light that you can imagine was on and there wasnt a cloud in the sky so it was a great view as you arrived. We arrived and i should identify doctor here sitting in the front row and he was my guide as we landed there. One of the funny things that happened is we got off the plane and went through there passport area and they were short on vips because a lot were there to atened the confe...

Records have been pretty much upheld a. Interpretation and application of the ethics rules is really up to the branches of congress themselves, its the committees to interpret that. Anyone else . Yes. [inaudible] about how congress can avoid ethical investigations. Well, i think nowadays, and again, jim kim service take to this better than i. No sophisticated lobbying shop pitches just on their ability to have, you know, who they know and have contacts, and certainly, nobody pitches on the basis that they play golf or take somebody out for drinks. Its the background its the relationship, its t...

Answer. All the opposite side has to do is to stop supporting a bill that would allow the biggest banks in america to rip off the people one more time. We bailed out the richest banks in america with the peoples money. The people do not want that anymore. And so this provision thats in the bill that would allow them to basically put us all at risk because they want to trade these derivatives and be protected with fdic cannot go on. And so there are a lot of other things in this bill thats unacceptable. I am the Ranking Member of the Financial Services committee and i worked on doddfrank. Theyr...

To fully declassify a march 13, 2003, cable from c. I. A. Field officers to headquarters. This cable provides information about the Bush Administrations campaign to build public support for the iraq invasion. One part of that campaign was the repeated misleading suggestions that mohamed atta, leader of the 9 11 hijackers, had met with an iraqi intelligence official in prague. I received a letter from director brennan making public for the first time some of the cables contents. He quotes the cable as saying, theres not one u. S. Government counterterrorism or f. B. I. Expert that has said they...