they went out to dinners together and frankie rode at lance's side in the tour. >> reporter: frankied epo, the '99 tour was a huge success for him. and when, in 2000, he rode clean as a whistle, his career was cut short. >> reporter: and after the testimony came out, she says the relationship with armstrong was over, too. >> lance was just too powerful. and if you go up against him, you're not going to work in cycling. people different want to hire frankie, because we weren't going to lie. we were going to tell the truth, if we were -- if we had to. it's not like i went out and called abc and said, i've got something to tell you. we were subpoenaed by michigan court order. >> reporter: andreu and others believe that armstrong has become so important to the sport that international cycling officials are complicit in a coverup. armstrong has made two sub substantial donations to the uci, cycling's governing body, the institution that score sees testing. armstrong wrote a personal check for $25,000 in 2002 and his company donated $100,000 later, money that paid for a blood testing machi

i think we've vindicated frankiely the open democratic process. there were no back room deals. there were conversations but everything that was done was ultimately fully debated and subject to amendment and ratified in the public. and i take a lot of pride in that. i think it was important for the public to see that happening. >> charlie: do you believe the economic recovery we're in now is spreading throughout the country that those smaller banks that you have mentioned that felt the brunt of this, that they are lending money again and that they are -- >> no, not enough. it's not entirely their fault. in fact, we put a bill through the house and hope the senate will do it soon to have the federal government buy $30 billion of preferred stock in small banks, banks of 10 billion and less in assets. if they will increase their lending to small businesses and we can measure that and we will increase the dividend they have to pay us if they don't do that lending. part of it is some of the regulators are still too tough. the tough regulators are encouraging people to lend. but peopl

officials say a word schafer was stabbed multiple times and this is their main suspect 31 year-old frankieony sousa. he has an extensive criminal record and was already serving a 60 year life sentence for the murder of a homeless man back in 2007 that if you look closely that tattoo on his forehead it reads white power. prison officials say he was stabbed in the back, neck and torso and transfer to marin general hospital later that evening where he died after undergoing surgery. this is an example of the prison a weapon he was killed less. it's known in prison slang as a bone crusher. officials say schaefer if within san quentin for two weeks had not reported any problems with other inmates. there still looking into the motive of the murdered and if it had anything to do with shaver's killing of nine year-old girl or the disrespect to show the victim in this moment. when he made an obscene gesture at his first court appearance. they're also looking into whether or not so saw had accomplices in the crime. >> now schieffer was killed melodies father he lost his leg in the crash years video o

this is frankie from jacksonville. i'm just wondering how long are the republicans going to let michael steele run his loose lips when he doesn't even have the facts straight? yes, he should definitely resign. he should have resigned a long time ago. i'm just appalled how they let him stand up and represent them and he doesn't have factual information, hh runs his mouth when he shouldn't, he should definitely step down for the sake of the republican party. i'm a democrat but even for the republicans, he really needs to do justice and step down. you know sometimes you get what you ask for. the only reason i think they wanted michael steele as their chairman to begin is because of his ethnicity. he's a black man and i think they wanted to come across as being you know, for all people, this, that and the other when they're really not. he's just a little token for them and he really needs to abide by most of their wishes and step down. host: "the washington post" piece reminds us steele's tenure at the helm has been marked

we've got two great guys for "chef on a shoestring" life-long friends who co-on brooklyn's popular frankiesdget of $40. good to have you both with us. >> thanks for having us. >> what's on the menu. >> three things, the celery, fennel root and -- >> parsley. >> parsley sal lad and home made cavatelli. >> do you finish each other's sentences? >> yeah. >> fantastic. >> very good. >> the old married couple. >> start with the salad. >> it is a really fresh salad with ingredients in everybody's green grocery in the supermarket simply italian parsley leaves, fresh cut fennel, which is really refreshing, celery root we've cut, you can cut to jul yen or slices. lemon -- >> for folks not familiar with celery root. >> it is the bottom of the celery. so, here it would just grow up to be celery. this is the celery root right here. >> okay. all right. >> it is the kind of salad preparing a meal for the family at home during the summer is a perfect healthy salad. >> the one thing you do is healthy and fresh vegetables, things of that nature. >> it's also a winter salad and works really well in the winter