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The average congressman makes 174,000 a year, but Pelosi if you took her salary

She would have to work 500 years to earn her current net wealth

We just get to get things out

Good afternoon Michael Malis here let that be your welcome for the next hour

I am thrilled to have Matt Lewis on the show Matt works for the Daily Beast and his new book is out this week

I want to get the subtitle exactly right filthy rich politicians the swamp creatures latte liberals and ruling class elites

Caching in on America Matt. I've been on your show. I think a couple times

I am really you even though you work for the Daily Beast

I can tell you that when you and your colleagues are put up against the wall. You'll be the last one

I can't stop it from happening, but I can at least keep you at the very end

I'm congratulations on your second book

This is such a big accomplishment. It's harder and harder people to get book deals nowadays

And I know it couldn't have been easy

What I want to do. Can you talk about how you got the idea for the book and something just maybe a little too much inside baseball

What how did it change from the concept to the finished product?

Yeah, so I got the idea honestly because an agent approached me and said I have an idea for a book that will sell and it's

The 100 richest politicians in America

Well, I have to interrupt you because you literally just said the perfect thing when people ask me for book advice

The one sentence I tell them is write the book you can sell

Not the book that you want to write so that agent is a very very smart person whoever it is is the guy for is a Keith

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