joining us now is the reporter who broke this part of the story, john archibald with "the birmingham" i imagine you're in the middle of quite a lot of this right now. thank you for taking the time. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> let me ask if i explained the basics here. there are twists and turns and intersections with other alabama scandals and stuff. did i get the basics right of what's happened here? >> you absolutely did. you got about as much as people can digest in one meal here. it's quite a bit. >> why did you decide, you and your editors decide today to post the audiotape of the governor basically having phone sex? what was your decision about the newsworthiness of that? >> well, there was a lot of discussion, frankly, and until the governor decided to have a press conference that he made specifically about that recording, i don't think it ever would have seen the light of day but basically he stood up and said, i'm going to apologize for everything i think you can prove but then i'm going to deny everything i think you can't prove. which came across as disingenuous an