now bob donald wants to stay oust prison and has been indicted. are accused of taking gifts, lots of gifts from a wealthy virginia businessman. here is bob mcdonald whose term as governor has just run out. >> i never promised and mr. williams and his company never received any government benefit of any kind from me or my administration. not one penny of taxpayer money went to him or to star scientific during our administration. not one penny. >> there is the former governor. here's gloria borger. we will run through the information and show you the information on the gifts allegedly taken by the mcdonalds. as we look at all of this, tell me what strikes you the most. >> what was he thinking. what were they thinking. you run through small ball gifts and run through loans, there is such a thing as an appearance of impropriety even if there is as the governor maintains. there e-mails in which caution was raised by staffers about this. i think you have to scratch your head and say in this day and age, why would you do something like that? even if the g

former virginia governor bob donald and his wife pleading not guilty. they value at least $140,000. how do authorities say this whole thing began? we are learning it could have started with a single dress. more on that right after this. [ male announcer ] the new new york is open. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to bold ideas. that's why new york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and grows more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free business at startup-ny.com. . >>> the hottest stories in a flash. we call it rapid fire. roll it. first up, another ugly day on wall street. take a look at that. the dow down in the triple-digits that could be the worst week in 18 months. the big reasons, weak earnings here at home and slow downs overseas. jpmorgan chase didn't have that great of a year, but the ceo is being richly rewarded anyway in a government filing. top executive jamie diamond will get

politico this morning, tying in outgoing virginia governor bobby donald gop'sis christie, the tarnished golden boys, both republican golden boys, bob mcdonnell facing a far graver situation as he left office yesterday, and then there is this, a model search for a gop leader, the bridge scandal that has engulfed governor chris christie has also brought more destruction to the already model stages of the republican search for a 2016 nominee. we are talking about 2016, and we have just barely creep into 2014, so we have a long way to go. clinton was the nominee two years, it's a funny thing happened on the 20th of january, so the notion that this step should be settled in advance is just silly, on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is probably good to have somebody that is sort of leading the charge, but i am not a chris christie fan, nor am i not a fan, but one of the things is that because he is where he is on the continuum, he does not have anyone guarding his flanks. nobody on the left wants to help, and nobody on the right ones to help, so he is out there , naked on his own. host: the rnc chair will be talking about this. he

by three votes over charlie, one was a young congressman from illinois named donald rumsfeld and another from kansas named bobole. what that election really significance any fide was the republican party was moving -- the center of gravity was moving away from the eastern establishment. at that point it was in the midwest but there are beginning to be a significant number of republicans in the south in both houses of congress, a trend that would accelerate. and 40 years later you could argue that the midwestern party has become allied with the southern and western party. >> on twitter this question aside from her predisposition did her being alone to raise the kids contribute to her drinking? i'm going to let her own words answer that. she wrote two memoirs and here is some of what she writes. i hated feeling crippled so i took more pills. now i know some of the pain i was trying to wipe out was emotional. jerry became minority leader of the house but i was feeling sorry for myself. she goes on to write in 1965 about a year after i began mixing pain medication with alcohol i snapped. i packed my bag one after

m university when president bush asked him to replace donald rumsfeld as secretary of defense in november of 2006. >> we are here to congratulate bobn becoming our nation's 22nd secretary of defense. >> by then the president, he says, concluded that things were going badly in iraq and gates decided congress needed to hear the truth. >> mr. gates, do you believe ma we're currently winning in iraq? >> no, sir. >> gates critics president bush with turning the u.s. effort around by ordering a surge of some 30,000 personnel. an idea gates says even he didn't support at first. he had some other minor disagreements with mr. bush, but he was more likely to clash with vice president dick cheney who did seem to understand that his influence with bush had waned. >> actually, he was pretty good humored. look, i know i'm alone on this. but here is what i think. >> gates' study is filled with military memento. >> a mine resistant ambush protected vehicles are credited with saving countless lives and limbs in iraq and afghanistan. but gates had to fight his own war within the pentagon to get the vehicles produced. >> it's bureaucratic inner solar

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bob gates wrote his book. people said this guy is the perfect person at the right time to take over for donald rumsfeld to bring peace and stability as president obama at 48 years old takes over the white house, a major job. he needs somebody with some experience like then 68-year-old secretary gates. so when he writes this book evidently the story is the white house caught blind sided. one person from the whaoeugd is reading -- one person from the white house is reading the book and -- they are defending joe biden. why defend joe biden? >> yesterday "the new york times" had an article saying this is the first time the lunch between the president and vice president was photographed. >> first time in five years. and jay carney says a complete coincidence with the book coming out. >> they were talking about this lunch photo for maybe five years. they put on a full court press when it came to defending biden. take a listen. >> he's played a key role in every major national and fory debate and policy discussion in this administration, in this white house. he played an important role obviously in the policy discussi