The actual exchange was:
Tivo is your friend, journalists, try using it to get your quotes right.Wallace: So if we find ... there were some Democrats who wrote letters on behalf of some of the Indian tribes that Abramoff represented, then what do you say, sir?
Dean: That's a big problem, and those Democrats are in trouble, and they should be in trouble, and if our party -- if the American people will put us in power in '06 -- we will have on the President's desk things that outlaw all those kinds of behaviors.
And how does the rest of the quote change anything of substance?