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morning and talk about the money and corruption in washington. the super lobbyist jack abram off -- abramoff has been on a book tour of the last couple of months. he has been lecturing about ethics in washington and offers a prescription for what he sees as the problems in this city. i will show you a number of clips from an event he did at harvard in december and talk with you about your views about washington. here are the phone numbers -- interesting this morning to hear from people around the country and also invite our washington viewers and listeners on c-span radio to offer th...

informed by being ambassador cdebaca's predecessor heading the human trafficking office at the state department. i saw there that prevention is as important as the activity afterwards, after the gender crime, the human rights abuses, the breakdown of the rule of law happens. i was delighted to see your emphasis on prevention, getting women involved up front, and political participation. as you roll out a presidential plan, i would imagine that the prevention matters would be the ones that would be hardest to maintain the momentum on for implementation. what do you think you can do to...

>> host: let's talk about writing a book and the differences from writing a column. >> guest: they are totally difference. a column is 800 words, and length is absolutely everything. you start how many words, how many letters, you really have to compress the length so there's a couple things you can't do at that length. first, it's hard to tell a narrative story because it tames time to set up, hard to do in-depth reporting because by the time you set up a scene, you ate 700 of your 800 words. you have one ideas and hammer it. i try to use my columns narratively like a legal brief, t...

600 of your 800 words. so a column you just have one idea, and you hammer that idea. i try to do my columns more narratively, try to tell a story, but it's really compressed. with a book you can spend a couple years on something, in-depth knowledge and do it in a more narrative forum, more natural thinking in terms of. and you can do a little better of capturing the climate of something with a column it's pretty much who's doing what, and it's very specific. but i think we're actually influenced by culture more than by personalities, more than by individuals. so you can try to captur...

>> former lobby wrist and convicted felon jack abram move takes us inside the corrupt world of washington, d.c. >> a politician is with you when needs you and when you need him he is no where to be found. >> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [ applause ] >> mike: thank you, everybody. a great enthusiastic audience here in new york. and we welcome you to huckabee from the fox studios in new york city. thanksgiving is a time when we see our families and we see family members that we never see any other time of the year. when i was growing up in hope, arkansas, i had a very ...