bobo went to trial before another judge and the jury found him not guilty on all charges. and i rather expected mr. siegelman to file a motion under the hyde amendment for attorneys fees. but he still had, i guess, political ambitions and so the motion wasn't filed. there were rumors at the time the case was dismissed that mr. siegelman would be pursued in the miller district. well, this past sunday, the "birmingham news" ran an article on the then united states attorneys stepping down from her position. she was reported as having said that she wanted to win the case in the northern district, but losing it didn't cause too much heart ache because she knew that another fellow indictment out of alabama's middle district was waiting. on mr. siegel. she's quoted, i trusted that the mill district would have a more balanced venue on their indictment, which i knew was under seal. she was either cloir voi yant or had some inside information because the indictment in the mill district didn't come down for another seven months. but one thing was clear to me from her comment, and tha

bobo was comfortable with the assignment, and for good reason. he was a doctor for the children. he had heavily contributed to the judge's campaign for circuit judge. several of the anticipated witnesses in the case were known by the judge and had made political contributions to him. and so when the judge did not voluntarily disqualify himself, mr. siegelman filed a disqualification motion, which was quite appropriately granted. the fickle finger of fate of the court's random selection system then fell on me, and apparently, unmindful of my background as one who faced as a college student, bear bryant as a civil rights lawyer, george wallace as a state senator, "birmingham news" embarked on a series of articles, editorials and op-eds on why i should disof why myself from the case. mr. siegelman and i were old political cronies from my days in the senate, said the news. my daughter's law firm was hired by then governor siegelman to represent him in the case that was filed at least eight years before he became governor, a job discrimination case against the state. i was prejudiced

kim bobo is kind of the jane addams of chicago. she is the head of the national interfaith coalition for worker justice. and her book transi is already a success it is not an ordinary book. it's kind of a political event. people around the country on talk review shows and clubs and organizations and unions have become energized by this book, which is about how people like the kind of people barbour wrote about in nickel and dime, being ripped off. our second author, tranthree, i hope i pronounced that right. flat broke in the free market is a remarkable writer, journalist with the washington post, and though he comes with all these establishment credentials. i think this is really a bombshell of a book. and i urge people to read it. it is about how globalization has stripped working people of the control over their lives, and he takes us on a journey from the salmon factory in chile to barack obama chicago, and it is a remarkably courageous book to come out at this time which even has a very good word to say about hugo chavez and s

kim bobo, wage theft in america. as i read it seemed to me that the book is about the way the neoliberal world that john just described is cheating on the old laws that were passed in the 1930s like the fair labor standards act, and you are acting for pushing back. i wonder if you think in the day, in today's political climate we could pass the fair labor's standard act again if it didn't exist. and maybe the problem is that we don't have the political will in this country to reenact a law that we are no longer enforcing. what do you think? >> i think it would be hard to pass something quite as revolutionary as it was at the time, something right now. because they had had, frankly, a number of years sort of a building up of a labor movement and the strengthening of the engagement of the religious community in these issues. they had a very vivid and vital settlement house movement. on the other hand, when they started the 1930s, nobody thought they could pass something like that. so it changed very quickly. and it fee

coming up next, authors kim bobo and jon jeter talk about workers and the economy. >> we are heading over right now to the in iran institute which is always set up here and for some reason we're going to find out why and talk with jeff of here. what is your name and position. >> i'm archivist at the ayn rand institute. >> why is it that ayn rand always seems to bump up in sales when there's a lack of a crisis of blacks. >> the sales of "atlas shrugged", up and that is directly result of the story and the ideas in the book. this is a book about the not too distant future when of the creative people of all stripes come all talents and all liability is the side to go on strike against a world that does not appreciate their value in their contributions and a world very much like the one we are currently facing economically. >> what do you think of the current response of public policy response to the abdomen situation we're facing? >> total disaster. the whole premise behind the response is that the free market is in the essential problem and it is quite the contrary, it is then on free