Joe Scarborough: “And, regretfully, that is something that has been echoed, again in the New York Times: ``Oil man says he got access by…”

“And, regretfully, that is something that has been echoed, again in the New York Times: ``Oil man says he got access by giving the Democrats money.'' And in this story he testifies, ``I think next time I will give $600,000,'' and stated, really, that the way to get into the White House was money and said that was the only reason he was there, was money. I want to yield in a second to the gentleman from Kansas, who is certainly a good friend and a great Congressman, but my office has called me back up, and I have to offer an apology, because I had said no Democrat had stood up and questioned the fundraising. And my office notified me that the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Traficant] has; and, of course, he is a trailblazer. I have to remind the gentleman from Arizona, he owes the gentleman from Ohio a steak dinner, because he said he would give a steak dinner to the first Democrat that actually stood up and questioned it. The gentleman from Ohio, of course, the trailblazer, did that. Something that the gentleman from Indiana and I have not touched on yet, something that we are going to be working on in the coming months, has been the abuse by the Democratic National Committee and the AFL-CIO to launder money.”