jesse kelly, ladies and gentlemen. can you believe he lost that election? today, we have a couple new entries. yes. the gentleman that's shown right here in the book, his name is josh mandel, a republican running for senate in ohio against sherrod brown. he was pressed this week by a very sharp local nbc reporter in dayton, ohio, about whether mr. mandel would have supported the auto bailout. very specific question. and mr. mandel's amazing answer earned him a page in the child's treasury. this is so great. >> he blasted those including senator brown and republicans who supported the wall street bailout. but refused to say what he would have done with general motors. >> i have a vision for taking the dayton area, taking some of the auto plants and former factories that used to be filled, filling them back up with dayton area workers to make pipes and tubes and fittings for manufacturing jobs. >> josh mandel, i appreciate what you're saying, but would you have supported the gm bailout. >> i'll try to protect auto jobs and grow auto jobs. we have talked about

we should point out that we asked jesse kelly to join us tonight. development. it's called the all for three. and in the end, you were able to claim your innocence while pleading guilty. jason, explain to me what this actually means. >> the alfred play was the only opportunity we were given to plead our innocence and get out with that. the way it was set up was the state didn't want to admit they had convicted three innocent people to prison and what they put together was an opportunity to -- for them to be able to claim that hey, we got the right guys. but the evidence doesn't, you know, prove that they're guilty. if they go to trial again, they'll win. but we're giving them an opportunity to get out now to save taxpayers some money and they can still maintain their innocence. and the state can still maintain the point that they're guilty. >> and you did an extraordinary thing for your friend because you could have done a deal and got out. but if you didn't take this deal, he would be still facing the death penalty, right? >> well, on both deals, l

kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: after almost 70 days of secrecy, nbc news obtained the first photos of congressman jesse jackson jr., who is hospitalized for treatment of the mental illness bipolar disorder. visited thursday by his friend and former congressman patrick kennedy. >> this has taken him down. i mean, nothing like a mental illness can threaten your life like what depression has done. >> reporter: kennedy, who had also been treated for depression at the same hospital, the mayo clinic, traveled to minnesota to offer jackson support. >> there's the political story, but i was there really to see someone who is in a lot of personal pain, who is suffering from a very serious illness. >> reporter: jackson has spent 18 years in congress and a lifetime in both the spotlight and the shadow of his famous father, the civil rights leader. the democrat from chicago's south side simply dropped out of sight in june. at first, his office blamed his absence on exhaustion, but under mounting public pressure finally said more, that jackson has a mood disorder. this week, the mayo clinic confirmed bipolar disord

jesse. they have one daughter, caroline, my namesake. next we have our third child and second son, rand paul. [cheers and applause] his wife kellyn is busy playing soccer and could not be here. their youngest son robert is with them today. [applause] our number four child, dr. robert paul -- [cheers and applause] monica could not be here because they have kids busy in sports this weekend. our youngest daughter joy is just a few weeks away from delivering our 19th grandchild. [applause] her doctor did not want her to come. ok. wait. i have already made a mistake. we have to back up to the number two child, lori. she has two more kids. mark is here. raise your hand. [applause] mark is a junior at the university of houston. his younger brother michael is playing for the houston cougars baseball. they would not let him off. he had to do some training. >> [unintelligible] >> what? [applause] ok. now i get corrected. our youngest daughter joy sent one of her twins to be here. because of the storm, he is on an airplane back to texas. did i get them all? [applause] thanks for putting up with all the history. now it gives me great honor