Top McCain economic advisor lobbied for mortgage bank
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann reports that Sen. Phil Gramm was paid to lobby the US Congress for a mortgage broker regarding the mortgage crises while helping to craft John McCain’s home mortgage policies. Gramm’s position as a top economic advisor for John McCain is unpaid.
This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast May 27, 2008.
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