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The blago moment getting ready for the reality show, "im a celebrity, get me out of here." that didnt happen. now we learned the witness stand is about the only place where he keeps his mouth shut. the defense rested its case yesterday but didnt call the former illinois governor to the stand to testify. closing arguments set to begin monday. blago was quiet inside the court. not outside. he talked about the decision to skip the stand. >> most compelling argument and ultimately the one that swaye...

Lets bring in cnn white house correspondent suzanne malveaux. whats the filter process? how is it decided whether the president gets involved in a race issue or not? >> reporter: first of all, in covering the president during the campaign, it is very clear that this president does not want to talk about race. reticent to jump into it. he was really forced during the campaign to talk about it in a way because of his reverend wright controversy. once he did it, however, he tried to do it in a thou...

And, and i have to let steve perry have the final word. listening to john and the reverend bash er reverend, knowing how we move forward, whats the most important point to make as we continue to follow this story? >> there have to be good ideas on both sides of the issue. the school board has to understand that if theres an entire group of people, not just a small group, who want to see this particular program reinstated, maybe theres something likewise, the naacp, lets listen to what they have ...

When it is on his own terms and also talked about why he didnt get on the stand. maybe the one time he refused to talk about the case. >> i learn ad lot of lesson from this whole experience. perhaps maybe the biggest lesson i learned is that i talk too much. thank you. >> blagos lawyer let the media have it as well. he said the reporters arent covering the trial fairly. he will talk about the trial and the circus. lets talk weather now. lot of severe storms in the midwest. reynolds, you are ta...

Closing arguments set to begin in the royd blagojevich corruption trial. the defense rest its case yesterday but didnt call the former illinois governor to the stand to testify. >> i said from the beginning, i did nothing illegal. i said from the very beginning the government and all of us should hear the tapes the tapes should be played, the tapes when they were heard would prove my innocence. the government played some of the tape. in the tapes the government played, they proved, as i said all...

Group by group and decide how and evaluate how closely related they are. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, for example, has fairly close ties to the al qaeda senior leadership based in the pakistan-afghanistan border region. jamai islamia battered by law enforcement efforts in indonesia also had some connections and not as closely tied as it used to be. al qaeda has communications links and not terribly close and case by case basis and those that took on the al qaeda name have a close relations...

Indicated hes going to be fairly liberal in that regard. some things are fairly obvious, commerce after fishermen and wholesale seafood retailers are directly affected but that leaves other people who are indirectly affected, even though there may not be oil on their beaches. heres what feinberg said about that. >> we have to look at each and every case. there may not be oil on the beach. do you -- are you losing business this year because you cant take charter fishermen out to fish, you cant ta...

Or qualification for it. they look at everybody to see who can qualify for this. >> do you think its worth it to wait in the line and get through? are people being processed fairly quickly? >> i think it is definitely worth it. processed quickly? i would say, no. you think about the masses of people that are out there doing this. a lot of people need help. the foreclosure epidemic is a big crisis and so now talking about this, trying to stop the bleeding and applaud them for taking the effort bu...

Money. thats where the risk goes. we know the bonuses go to the bankers, but thats an issue if tea party, for instance, doesnt care about. either way, financial reform between the democrats and the republicans, a race straight to the bottom. the republican plan does not call for big banks to chip in for a resolution fund. the republicans rightly concerned that this sends a bad signal to the markets in creating two classes of businesses, a special fraternity and everybody else. but neither plan d...

And hopefully, you wont get back certainly sooner than later. great to have you all on. thank you for giving us quite frankly some good perspective about the whole situation. you have to do what you have to do and hunker down and maybe like you said, jen, you said it beautifully, that maybe there is some kind of silver lining or something beyond this ash cloud. so, guys, thank you so much. good luck and hang in there, all right. >> just one of the many stories we are seeing. glad we could bring ...