I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. This week on Moorers & Company.

Forget Republican red or Democratic blue. The power color in Washington is the cool green of cash.

Mark Leibovic of the New York Times has written about the city's bipartisan lust for power, cash, and notoriety,

in a book that everyone who's anyone in the nation's capital is talking about.

This is the story of how Washington became an occupied city all in the name of crony capitalism.

If you can sell yourself as someone who knows how Washington works, someone who has these

relationships, someone who can get on the phone and get the President to the United States

to pardon your fugitive client, that's a very, very marketable commodity.

If you are seen as someone who knows how this town works, you can dine out for years.

That's why no one leaves. Thanks for

joining us.

Whatever you're doing these last days of summer, stop. Take some time and read this book.

The title is this town, and it's an up-close look at how our nation's capital really works.

I promise you will laugh and cry, and by the last page, I think you'll be ready for the revolution.

I can tell you, it's not a pretty picture.

Here's just one example.

Three men on the summermers Day in Mississippi.

Why are they smiling?

And what are they really up to?

Yes, that's former President Bill Clinton on the right.

And on the left, his best friend forever, Terry McCullough, former chairman of the Democratic

National Committee, fundraiser Supreme for both Bill and Hillary and the personification of

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