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center. you can walk a block or head to the coast it was cooler at the coast today. then inland. there some areas that were warmer than the southern california deserts'. it is still 103 in livermore and 102 in concord. these are not records. livermore ya have to gained 10 degrees to get the record. in san francisco we hit 90. it was 103 in fairfield and 96 in napa. the plays we always look is west, to see of low clouds are headed our way. we find relief from this kind of heat. this won't last long. will talk about colin and a few minutes. as you heard in this brief taste of summe...

delay, to the conviction of bob ney, to tony rudy, to neil volz, so many people were pulled into this web. ralph reed, jjhn doolittle, karl rove, dick armey, conrad burns, don young. it was all about the money. >> almost everyone on that screen is gone from here they were when they either got in trouble or they were in office. a couple of them are still there. who did we just see and why did you starr with those people? >> i started with those people because it was interesting to me to show that jack abramoff wasn't on the periphery, that he was at a certain moment in time, his momen...

jack abramoff had just been released from prison to a halfway house in baltimore this week? >> well, i knew it was going to and frankly, you know, i thought he had spent enough time in a might well have gone to prison but didn't. he's out in a halfway house. i think that's all right. >> when was the first time that you thought about doing your documentary, brand-new, called "casino jack and the united states of money"? stories in "the washington post," and i was astounded really by sort of the audacity of the story and how colorful it was. so i thought it would make a good movie beca...

>> well, i heard some of the post," and i was astounded really by sort of the audacity of the story and how colorful it was. so thought it would make a good movie because i'm always interested in stories per se, and jack is a fascinating character. very colorful, very outrageous. at the same time, the other interesting to me was it was a story that seemed to me to point out the most fundamental problem in our democracy right now, which is theeway that money rules our democracy. it's become so unbalanced that i think it's become the fundamental problem in our socieey. >> let's run a c...

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