an evening with former governor rod blagojevich.he college democrats there are going to allow blago to tell his side of the story. one official says there isn't a better person out there to discuss this than former rod blagojevich. lecturing on ethics. need i say more? >>> we've been showing you a clip from "the view" every single day. they've earned it. yesterday octomom sat down with the ladies of "the view." here's some good news, friends. she's keeping the door open to more kids. >> is this it for kids for you? >> oh, yes, yes, yes. oh, absolutely. some day far, far, far in the future when they're older if, you know, god willing i meet somebody -- i meet somebody. not alone. i'm not going to say 100%, no, i'm not going to some day far in the future get married and want a -- >> i think far in the future -- >> no more. no more. >> here's the thing. you're not going to get married again. i'm just telling you as a guy. the definition of baggage is a crazy chick with how many, 14 kids? >>> still ahead on "way too early." the polls ar

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he got that appointment by blagojevich. there he is right now, we got to know him on this show.esident's seat, where is that likely to go? does cheryle jackson have a chance? >> i wouldn't call it close, there's some other big. there's a potential of african-american turnout, she's the own ol female in the race. the state treasurer has been in the lead for most of the campaign, the race tightened up in these last few days, a lot of negative campaigning going on, mainly by david hoffman who is the former city hall inspector general, who had enough money to go on tv. the negative ads were continuing up through this afternoon in both the governor and senate races on both sides. >> hang on there. >> very good for people out there. >> hang on there. we're going to go back and talk about the president as a candidate again. he's out there acting like a candidate again. i wonder what it's all about, we're going to find out on msnbc. best 3g phones. carl passes the time searching for apps on his samsung moment with google. candice mixes business with pleasure on the newest blackberry cur

cold cash, blagojevich, spitzer, mcgreevy. i'm not saying republicans are immune, we have mark sanford. the senator from nevada. >> sure. >> sean: certainly the corruption scandals, geithner, house, ways and means committee chair. >> there's a difference we take ours seriously. when stuff happens in our party we say cunningham's got to go. foley absolutely to go. shape on abrammoff and the people who took that money. we told to that the democrats not so sure. i still think and this book is about that , that the democrats made a deal with the devil in the 80s. sorry, in the 90s with clinton. and i remember sitting there on all the talk shows arguing with democrats about clinton stuff and they said no, no, it is fine, no big deal. the show would be over and they would say you are right, it is horrible, terrible. you can't swallow that stuff whole and expect it not to somehow corrode. do you remember michael kelly the journalist from the "washington post", independent guy, he died in iraq, you remember. he said i can never vote f

blagojevich accepted, of course.ormer governor will be interviewed by a northwestern faculty panel, which includes a law professor and two political science professors. students will be allowed to ask questions afterward. that should be interesting. >>> senator scott brown is getting lots of praise from his new colleagues and lots of love from the white house, too. >>> hits don't lie and apparently neither do white house visitor lists. it's something we heard in the halls. to stay in tune with life after 50, i switched to a complete multivitamin with more. only one a day women's 50+ advantage... has gingko for memory and concentration. plus support for bone and breast health. just what i need! one a day women's. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] you've wanted to quit smoking so many times, but those days came and went and the cigarettes remained. ♪ today's a new day. talk to your doctor about prescription treatment options and support. and this time, make it your time. a man can only try... and try...and try. [ male announcer ]

. >> he may be staring in the new show "csi: blagojevich." >> is he polish? >> he must be with that many vowels. he's got the hair. >> i think he's on to something, i really do, but what do i know? >> it is time for the greg-alogue, a pellican of perception. >> i keep feeling like this table is going to fall over. i better be careful. so every day another embarassing revelation exposes climate change experts as confused bumble heads. the latest is the climate change panel basing conclusions on banishing mountain top ice on anecdotes on a mountain nearing magazine. it would be hilarious if not for the fact that quad-drillion dollars are at stake. and that can buy a lot of unicorns one sees. and it shows why climate change researchers must released data and reveal their message. if they have nothing to hide, the credibility will only increase. the fact they don't want to makes me think they are getting their data from articles in cos mow. fyi, global warming can make it harder to find your g-spot says darla age 23, a data analyst. anyway, 2, there are real few

blagojevich later appointed roland burris would says he is not running for a full term.ew developments in the death of michael jackson. prosecutors reportedly plan to file a criminal complaint charging jackson's doctor with involuntary manslaughter instead of taking the case to the grand jury. dr.conrad murray says he did not give jackson anything that would have killed him. >>> it is another messy commute out there this morning. up next, we'll update the traffic, weathers and all of your school closings. >>> watch out men, women are gaining on you in the workplace. that is in our money report coming up next on fox 5 morning news. i'm love with this cute pair of jeans, only $100. but am i wearing them now? hello. i'm wearing my older sister's jeans that she ruined with bbq sauce... or so i thought. see, my mom washed them with this tide stain release in-wash booster stuff. she's all, "you use it with your detergent to help get stains out the first time." are you kidding me? so now the stains are magically gone. and my sister passes on her jeans to me. what a life. [ fema

republicans have targeted the seat since blagojevich was arrested for trying to sell it. >>> two baltimore doctors back home from haiti this morning and say the need to help and medical supplies growing every single day. dr. gati and par spent a week at a small hospital, 70 miles north of port-au-prince. every day dozens of casualties came through the hospital from earthquake areas and the injuries were horrible. dr. gashi says infections that could be treated easily in the u.s. is taking hundreds of lives in haiti. defects of the earthquake will be felt for generations and the need for support will be nonstop. >> everybody is willing to help right now. but what i want to ask people is to please don't forget. don't, past the first few weeks, there is going to be great need in haiti. >> and the doctor plans to return in may. >>> 5:35 a.m. a broadway show, called in heights coming to baltimore later on this month and tonight on abc 2 we will take you inside that tony award winning show. >> i think we were hoping to hear from the broadway show but that obviously wasn't it. but don't miss the

remember, the last time they voted for governor, they chose rod blagojevich. actor rip torn is out on bail and plans to go to rehab, possibly today. he's accused of breaking into a bank with a loaded gun. according to court records, he thought he was home. he's zed from the "men in black" movies. he doesn't remember what happened and is cooperative. >>> the man who has a sex tape of john edwards has turned down large offers to sell it. he found the tape in a home they shared with rielle hunter. on the joy behar show, they said the scandal is not about the tape. >> the story to me is really about the wholesale fraudulence of john edwards. not just the fact he cheated on his cancer-stricken wife and he denied fraternity. >> a court ordered young to return the tape to rielle hunter. he's going to let the lawyers figure it out. he's denied claims by john edwards attorneys. you can catch the joy behar show here on hln. >>> so, it's groundhog day. i really am not a fan of it. the only reason to me to do it is to see this. the dancing, the entertainment that the craz

>> his family's bank gave $1 million to blagojevich crony and convicted felon. >> rob blagojevich goesad news for the democrats. but good news for this man, five-term republican house member mark kirk, who is expected to win his primary. he is running against high taxes and washington spending, but especially against a democratic party that has majority control here in illinois as in washington. >> i think that no one political party is the source of all wisdom and no one republican party should have all the power. our government works best when there is a check in balance. >> and you think the democrats have too much power right now and it's out of balance? >> it is out of balance because we have a one-party state in chicago, in illinois and in washington. that's too much all on one side. >> on the other side, leading democrats aren't thrilled with the choices. state treasurer alexi julius, a young heir whose bank was cited by federal populous. and with late momentum, a squ k squeaky clean, anti-corruption candidate, david hoffman, whose campaign may have surged too late. when it come

blagojevich.es. it sounded like one of those super bowl commercials. blagojevich. senators attempted to address all of these concerns through interviews, written questions, and a hearing. however, not all the concerns were favorably resolved, and last thursday the nomination was reported out on a party-line vote. i have made numerous attempts to alleviate concerns about mr. becker's stated plans to reinterpret the national labor relations act to limit the ability of employers to participate in the process or otherwise tilt the playing field unfairly against employers. however, his answers have been far from reasecuring. when asked if he would ever support imposing the main provisions of the card check bill through regulatory fiat, he left the door open. he answered that while the statute might be interpreted to not permit the board to uniformly strip employees of the ability to have secret ballot elections, impose mandatory binding arbitration and raise penalties on employers, if presented with ar

about a year ago, we had a big hit with a show called "rod blagojevich superstar" and we thought rushugh would be great because he can actually write the show for us. >> can you give us an example of the lyrics we would hear in rush limbaugh the musical? >> based on the little mermaid, oxycontin song, talks about rush's love of that particular drug. we go way back and have a piece based on "grease lightning," holding on to the '50s, and hating the hippie scene developing around him. the whole thing is made up. we're not really tied to facts. we use rush limbaugh's style against him, so to speak. >> i can hear what he would say about that. he would say -- i think he would have fun with people making fun of the facts. how much of an inspiration was limbaugh dancing to lady gaga? we have that video from the miss america pageant where he was really pumping his fists in the air and "let's dance" was playing. maybe it was "poker face." at any rate, big inspiration for the actor who plays rush limbaugh? >> absolutely. it's super awkward and so the choreographer had a fun time making sure rus

rod blagojevich, our friend, mr. cohen here. unbelievable. >> that's crazy. all right.ell, chuck, i'm glad we had it on tape, i might not have believed you. >> by the way, politics is cutthroat, apparently. >> apparently. >>> coming up, from cyberspace to currency and now chicken feet. the tensions are build between the u.s. and china. >>> but first, today's trivia question from "the almanac of american politics." where did democratic congressman heath shuler of north carolina play immediately after he left the washington redskins? this is "the daily rundown," only on msnbc. [ female announcer ] crunch time, wheat thins. you and your tasty whole grain. this can only end one way. [ crunch ] wheat thins. toasted. whole grain. crunch. the crunch is calling. and you have a heart attack. that's what happened to me. i'm on an aspirin regimen now. my doctor told me it's the easiest preventative thing you can do. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. see your doctor. simple. >>> well, we know you're still recovering from illinois

denied he was arrested that i was sitting in new york next to my colleague, we just is reporting on blagojevich, the governor in illinois. and my friend got an e-mail from the fbi saint bernard madoff arrested, $50 billion can. i said i don't know who that is, but it can't be 50 done because that would be the biggest in history. i soon found out. >> what kind resources did you and your unit turned over to this investigation? >> we had the entire abc news investigative unit immediately launch into action. much of it for broadcast. but there were so many great details and facts that just could not fit into the world is or not live, 2020. so we ended up doing this book. the first book i have written. >> it is your first look? >> i am a rookie at this. but i enjoyed it. and here i had as much as i wanted. >> so how did you fit right into this book into your work a? >> 4:30 a.m. was a good time to write. and they gave me a few days off over the july 4 weekend, so right out of the stands at the end of june i really swung into action. i was in pretty good shape to get out as quickly. >> did you have a

the scandals that would allow tony resco and blagojevich come into the election made people very concerned. i think as people have gotten to know me and people have been paying attention since new year's, we have been surging. >> let's say you win this primary today and go to the election against mark kirk. what will the effect, the scott brown effect in massachusetts have on you as a democrat trying to win? >> yeah. yeah, well, i'll tell you, what massachusetts has done has made it clear to people all around the country it will be a difficult year for democrats. people here in illinois are fed up with two things. they're fed up with what's going on economically, they're feeling so much economic pain and they're looking for help. here in illinois a second thing is going on, people feel so burned with what's been going on with the inside political system. they are sick of political insiders and as someone who has never been a politician, as someone who has been in public service for 16 years and here, for the last 11 years as a federal prosecutor under pat fitzgerald, for four years as the

have a $12 billion state decifit and $80 billion hole in the pension funds, and we've got a rod blagojevich who is going off the celebrity apprentice and then probably to prison, so there's a lot of anger and in the primary candidates, i think there's an interesting thing to watch in the senate rate. you mentioned alexi greuel anous, the frontrunner, but he's run into criticism of late because his family owns a bank and he was the chief loan officer at one time. the family took $70 million out of the bank a couple of years ago and now federal regulators are saying your bank is in trouble, you got to pour about 70, $75 million back, so we've seen a trend in the race as this anger grows in the state and david hoffman, who is the former secretarior general and federal prosecutor, he has a chance of making taking this primary seat for the democrats. jon: bankers, not real popular among voters, are they? >> now, mark kirk has been pretty well gliding along in the republican primary. he's getting some challenge from the right wing of the party. but no one seems to have gotten a lot of traction wi

blagojevich.pay-go, since it's been put in place three years ago, our deficits have increased ten fold. i urge defeat of this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan reserves. the gentleman from florida is recognized. >> madam speaker, it is my pleasure and privilege to yield 2 1/2 minutes to the budget committee chairman, the gentleman from south carolina, mr. spratt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina is recognized. mr. spratt: madam speaker, to supplement my remarks about pay-go i'd like to include in the record the section by section description of the bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. spratt: madam speaker, at the outset of the 1990's the congress passed the budget enforcement act for a simp purpose, to make sure the agreement we passed was carried out. among the provisions was a new rule called pay-go, pay as you go. i can remember how our critics disdained to spend according to budget process instead of making hard s

remember, though, the last time they voted for governor four years ago, they chose rob blagojevich. we're watching. >>> repairs for your recalled toyotas could start as early as today. toyota czys tsays the parts sho start arriving today and tomorrow. the company estimates the problem should take a half hour to fix. some safety experts have raised concerns electronic problems may be behind this gas pedal sticking, electronic i said. so toyota says it is confident that has found the cause here. >>> but a louisville man is in intensive care after crashing his 2010 toyota cam ray over a cliff and into a creek. the camry is one of eight models involved in the toyota recall. paula allen says her husband was driving with three friends saturday when the car took off at a high speed. he tried to brake with both feet but it wouldn't stop. >> he said the car just accelerated. and when it did, they flew off the cliff and into the creek. the car flipped over and they felt water coming up in the car. >> now all four men were rushed to the hospital. allen may have a spinal cord injury. apparently