I am watching House Speaker Tom Craddick's deposition video from this morning, and it's a lot of "I don't know", "I don't remember", "I'm not advised" and "I have no idea's".

Craddick was fidgety at first but overall appeared calm and at times even a little bored in the video. It lasts about 80 minutes, and lobbyist Bill Messer was deposed separately for another 90 minutes.

His attorney, Dallas-based Tom Thomas, is a tiger! (If I am ever in trouble with the law, I am so calling this guy.) He snaps at plaintiff's attorney Kevin Buchanan several times, and instructs his client, Tom Craddick, not to answer about every other question.

"You got questions for him, ask him. No politics, no histrionics in the corner," Thomas says.

Oh, and the deposition didn't actually finish. Craddick and his attorney stormed out.

Video tonight at six.

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