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that's to our clients. our clients come first. damn to or the peete pidto if it is going -- damn the torpedo if it is going to cost us money. they have a conflict of interest. they are for the profit margin. and now profit margins might override to going forward and doing what it takes to get the job done and i think that is the difference in attitude a lot of times i'm seing in the providers you from the institutional public defenders opposed to contract public defenders. >> great. thank you. [applause] thanks very much for coming up here and being part of this discussion because we...

she points to this list above her besk and now these are lists, names of defendants who have been changed with a crime in lower court in the justice court and they have been bound over to the circuit court for the prosecutor to bring to grand jury. by law in mississippi, the prosecutor has to give every case to the grand jury and the prosecutor can say there is not a lot of evidence in this case and this case has resolved itself, i don't think you should indict but it is people who have to decide what gets to court and what doesn't get to court. she said here i have 80 people on this...

>> new york city but i wish i did. -- no, but i wish i did. i remember reading somewhere a few years ago that a prosecutor had never been disbarred. i think that changed this year. there was a prosecutor suspended for hiding evidence in santa clara county for the first time this year in california. but very rarely are prosecutors ever held accountable for misconduct or for unethical conduct. why is that and what did you find in your study as it related to the kind of misconduct that was common? >> i think in order to get to that question, taking off on amy's story because i think it ...

we are looking at some of the races in colorado and washington out west where ken buck is a head right now. this is about half of the vote reported. in the washington senate race, dino rossi looking to defeat patty murray. the numbers show that she is ahead by two percentage points. she was first elected in the year of the women back in 1992. this is with an estimated 60%. lincoln chafee has been declared the winner with 36% of the vote. back to your calls. rejoining us from madisonville, ky. caller: we are probably going to somehow -- to get things back on track. i hope that we get ...

on election 2010 but this much we know. when the 112 congress convenes on the capital january 3, 2011, there will be nearly 100 new members and the freshman class. about 70 of them republicans. at this point, no one has stepped forward to challenge john boehner's path to speakership and harry reid will be returning as majority -- majority leader, at least for now britain notable losses include committee chaired james oberstar, i skelton and john spratt. a longtime congressman paul kantor skeet -- kanjorski was also defeated. the gop picked up at least 60 seats in the house to bring t...