I left here, i will give you one statistic that i do not put in the book. I was told in 1970 that there were 160 some registered lobbyists in washington. There are now over 13,000. Second, i have started studying Early American History in and i wente depth backtoschool in my 60s to get a graduate degree in jefferson. Used the language of the ancient republican, greece and rome. And warned against corruption. Their definition of corruption was not bribery or quid pro quo, money under the table. It was putting special interests ahead of the common good. Washingtoninition, today is a massively corrupt place. You somet me show video of harry truman after he was out of office talking about his future as a next president. [video clip] some of them, when they became president were rich men. Some of them were in the same financial situation that i was myself. Those men who have had to go ahead and do what was necessary to make a living, did not under any circumstances use the fact that they ha
private employer here in the united states. and jon huntsman sets the stage for his presidential announcement tomorrow while fellow republicans and democrats try to use his stint in the obama administration against him. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. but up first this hour, syria s dangerous ally and the bloody crackdown on anti-government protestors. there s new evidence coming in right now that iran is working to influence what s happening in syria and lay ground work in case president bashir al assad s regime falls. this after al assad unleashed new threats today against protestors while offering some vague promises of reform. let s go right to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. she s learning more about iran s efforts in syria. what s going on here, barbara? reporter: well, wolf, cnn is now learning some of that new emerging evidence, a u.s. official tells us that they now have secret communications, intercepts between iran and syria that s