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Ex-illinois governor rod blah goich vich took the stand today, he said, quote, i used to be your governor, and im here to tell the truth. b-rod is facing charges inclusion allegations that he tried to sell president obamas vacated senate seat for personal gain. last year at his first trial he didnt testify, and the jury deadlocked on most of the charges. well be right back. >> weve got a flood. this is where the rubber hits the road, the nose

City where victims including women and children. the director and two other officials at the prison have been placed under house arrest while investigations continue. brian? >> palestinian activists say facebook isnt letting them create pages with the word palestinian in the title. palestinn refugee research net says the word is not making it through facebooks automatic filters. computer experts point out that the words -- words palestine and palestinians made it through the filters with no prob...

Obama administration knew about the release of the lockerbie bomber days before he was freed from the prison. the deputy head of the u.s. embassy in london sent a memo to scottish officials protesting his release last year. but it claims they wanted him to be released on compassionate grounds in scotland rather than be transferred to a libyan prison. he was returned to libya last august and seems great. about to run a triathalon, steve, i think, is that correct? the u.s. senate is holding a hear...

>> lets go to jim on that. the same thing. is that clear that the references there to fellow blair hull and not to jesse jackson jr., when he says there, well, hes pulling a full-court press on you, thats jesse jackson jr.? >> yeah. >> hes going to raise a lot of money, pal. raise you money and then the governor says you and lon coordinate. somebody make the ask to blair hull. it does have in it the information that jesse jackson jr., the congressman from out there in illinois, is going to raise...

>> well, then, it sounds a little bit like eddie coyle mob talk. you make the ask. explain. go to this guy and in this case go to blair hull. >> blair hull, quickly ran against obama in the senate race that one time was a front-runner. he put 29 million of his own money in the ration, but in 2002, two years before, he gave $466,000 to rods re-election fund. in illinois at the time things were wide open. you could just -- you could tap somebody for as much as they wanted to give. but blair had no...

Welcome back to "hardball." actually the trial of former illinois governor rod blagojevich is under way in chicago. witnesses are taking the stand, and the prosecutors have a money tavern evidence, apparently, featuring some audio tapes of blago himself. lynn sweet is a columnist for dailypolitics.com and jim warren is a columnist for the chicago news cooperative. lets listen right now. heres some of the audio tape played at trial. this is a conversation between the governor and his brother robe...

Whats the number going to be next week? is it going to be 100 gallons? mean, who knows? lets sit around and watch, i guess, but weve got to stop that leak now! >> okay. youve explained a lot to me, sir. thank you, larry johnson, downs in pensacola. well have you back on again. coming up, federal prosecutors are laying out their case against ex-illinois governor rod blagojevich, and they have released a batch of audio tapes of catching blago in action. weve got the tapes and will show them to y...

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