is now a parter in. additionally, judge durkin's brother jim durkin is the current republican leader of the illinois house of representatives. the judge brought all of this to everybody's attention in court today, not that any of it needed to be. i don't think he said anything that hasn't been previously reported since the case was assigned to him. but he's giving each side an opportunity to basically say whether or not they think the case should remain with him. he acknowledged that he could be disqualified from this case. he's giving both sides an opportunity to waiving that disqualification. and we should know by the end of this week whether either side will want to do so. the judge said that he set up a process so that he will not know which party or if either party declined to waive the conflict. >> jon seidel, chicago sun timed, thanks so much for coming >> wooduff: tonight, we are launching a series of