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Your family's very safety. one of the things that intrigued me during this time. fbi agents had live at tom's house. >> lived at his house, wherever he went and children went and normally that's the purview of the united states marshal service, but we had grown to admire this man so much, we weren't going to let anybody protect him, but ourselves. >> mike: and a lot of the story we won't get to. some of your colleagues at fbi talk openly about this experience and what an amazing man of courage tom was during this entire ordeal that happened. tom, i want to ask you about your wife and your kids...

Them and now he wants it take on the big spenders in congress. that may be the biggest challenge of all. please welcome tom ganly. welcome. >> thank you governor, thank you very much. [applause] >> what intrigues me about your story is you're just minding your business, a guy comes into your dealership and says, i think there's an oldsmobile dealership that would be for sale. you get out, talk to the people and ultimately the deal comes about and then what happens? >> well, then shortly thereafter, i received an invoice in the mail for a half a million dollars. and frankly, governor, i thought...

[applause] (applaus (applause) >> we are back with tom ganley and joining us now, former federal agent, bob freedman, who worked directly with bob during the mob stipulating. welcome, i want to ask you something, in your 27 year career with the fbi. how many people did you deal with like tom? >> one. >> tom ganley. >> he's the only one like that. >> what do you mean? >> normally you're dealing with informants, people who are actually involved in these crimes and you're trying to get them to tell you what's going on, help them help you defeat these people and along comes tom ganley and voluntee...

School and observed my son, called me and said if you think we're kidding he has corduroy pants on and a yellow shirt. if you ask him tonight. so when ken came home, i-- how was school. he said it was fine and i had to prompt him a little bit and finally he said, oh, yes, dad a friend of yours played kick ball with us, a guy named joe and of course, that was a new mafia member that interjected himself into this and the threats escalated from there. >> mike: tom, unbelievable. you know what, we're going to bring one of those fbi agents that worked with you during this process of almost two year...

We're going to provide the money we want to videotape him taking the money and so forth. so, he came back, and we paid him the money. i paid him the money. and-- actually i. >> mike: actually i did, i'm a taxpayer and i took care of that for you. i'm helping you out, tom. >> there's a great ending to the story, but when they all went to prison, the fbi sued them civilly and got the money back, i thought it was terrific. >> mike: maybe ought to get some of those guys to run for congress, too. and this had to be the most scary thing in the world. how long did this go on, this process. >> governo...