we have the latest news on the ongoing saga of former alabama governor don siegelman as a democrat siegelman was a political force in alabama he was the only man in history to hold the four top seats in the alabama government government serving as the secretary of state in turn the general the lieutenant governor and finally as the governor from one thousand nine hundred nine until two thousand and three then everything went wrong in two thousand and four segal was indicted on corruption in two thousand and six he was convicted on those charges and sentenced to seven years in prison but it soon became obvious the siegelman hadn't committed any crimes that instead his only offense was being a democrat and being on the top of a political hit list made up by karl rove ever since siegelman has been fighting for his innocence and trying to expose the truth for more on this story governor don siegelman joins me now from our new york studios governor welcome. thank you to you know it's it's fun to listen to you synopsize the story but it might do your listeners some good to know the extent of the r

governor who's now trying to rebuild his life and expose the truth about bush's brain governor don siegelman joins me later to tell his story and later on which scares you most big business or big government i'll give you my answer tonight it's deleted. you need to know this republicans in the house of representatives wasted everyone's time yesterday passing their version of a payroll tax cut extension since republicans can't pass a clean bill to protect one hundred sixty million americans from a half a thousand dollar tax hike they instead attach poison pills to the tax cut extension repealing regulations that keep our water safe from coal polluters fast tracking the environmental ticking timebomb known as the keystone x.l. pipeline after the vote senate majority leader harry reid blasted house republicans saying the bill passed by house republicans tonight is a pointless partisan exercise the bill is dead on arrival in the sun it was dead before it got to the senate and in case there was any doubt that the house bill was dead the senate senate minority leader mitch mcconnell blocked a vote

governor who's now trying to rebuild his life and expose the truth about bush's brain governor don siegelman joins me later to tell his story and later on which scares you most big business or big government i'll give you my answer tonight it's deleted. you need to know this republicans in the house of representatives wasted everyone's time yesterday passing their version of a payroll tax cut extension since republicans can't pass a clean bill to protect one hundred sixty million americans from a half a thousand dollar tax hike they instead attach poison pills to the tax cut extension repealing regulations that keep our water safe from coal polluters fast