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Saw. a deliberate attempt to hide the truth. >> the former illinois governor is in the middle of his second trial on charges of bribery, extortion, and fraud. he was found guilty of a single count of lying to investigators in the trial that ended last august. nbcs nick bogart has been following the trial from chicago. so, nick, patti blagojevich we know from the tapes that were recorded of conversation not one to shy away and certainly she let her anger be known in that interview. >> reporter: n...

Does it speak for many in the military brass? >> absolutely. it speaks for the brains. ever since goldwater nichols was passed in 1986 the very best of the military has gone to the joint staff and the very best of that best to the chairmans office. this is admiral mullen who himself is no shrinking violet from brain power. he is a very cerebral chairman, thinks about these kinds of problems. this is his strategic brain trust. this is -- your lead-in was perfect. this is very much eisenhower. thi...

The military has gone to the joint staff and the very best of that best to the chairmans office. this is admiral mullen who himself is no shrinking violet from brain power. he is a very cerebral chairman, thinks about these kinds of problems. this is his strategic brain trust. this is -- your lead-in was perfect. this is very much eisenhower. this is right back to his 53 speech for example back to his 60 speech to the u.s. chamber of commerce wherein he said our national security is not tanks an...

She didnt go down like a shrinking violet. she got on twitter and said, dont worry about georges comments. just remember what happens to the big, bad drunk wolf falls in a pot of boiling water and piggy laughs. theres no word yet whether she accepted his apology. war of words. >> that is why we love kirstie alley. elizabeth taylor, everybodys missing her already. she just was laid to rest. on strict orders, which she left everybody in her family know, she wanted to arrive late, as was her fash...

Shes feisty, we know this, so she didnt go down like a shrinking violet. she got on twitter and said, dont worry about georges comments. just remember what happens to the big, bad drunk wolf falls in a pot of boiling water and piggy laughs. theres no word yet whether she accepted his apology. war of words. >> that is why we love kirstie alley. elizabeth taylor, everybodys missing her already. she just was laid to rest. on strict orders, which she left everybody in her family know, she wanted t...

Someone like that and the sadness and the damage it does within a family, within the nucleus of the family. and nobody gets away free. nobody gets away free. people get damaged. people get hurt. and i just look at it from that and my heart aches for his family. >> you have all been on tv shows in different capacities. does it really matter how somebody behaves in their private lives when it comes to the performance on a tv show? >> you want to take that? >> i dont think that it necessarily affec...

I know how it feels to love someone like that and the sadness and the damage it does within a family, within the nucleus of the family. and nobody gets away free. nobody gets away free. people get damaged. people get hurt. and i just look at it from that and my heart aches for his family. >> you have all been on tv shows in different capacities. does it really matter how somebody behaves in their private lives when it comes to the performance on a tv show? >> you want to take that? >> i dont thi...

>> you want to take that? >> i dont think that it necessarily affects your acting. i mean, my personal opinion is that i can -- its sometimes -- you see somebodys life in their acting because they become very famous. >> you went with roseanne and hardly a shrinking violet. >> right. >> every day wasnt a quiet tea party. arent people who are at the top of their game in entertainment, they tend to be a bit on the edge, dont they? a bit erratic. >> i dont know. look. we all come like you said from ...

Position. >> there were some lighter moments today. we sort of played one of them earlier. another happened when she was asked where she was on christmas last year when a man tried to blow up the u.s.-bound plane with a bomb in his underwear with. listen to this. >> you know, like all jews, i was probably at a chinese restaurant. >> great answer. >> she is a comedian. >> you know, you got a sense of her personality. as you mentioned, we were law school classmates, i have known her for a long tim...

Years later in 1984 and four years after that came his third heart attack. that led to quadruple bypass surgery. a slight heart attack during the bush versus gore recount in 2000. then there have been various angioplasties, stent and pacemaker implants, aneurysms in his knees and surgeries to repair them, a thrombosis in his left leg and atrial defibrillation, two surgeries for final stenosis and then in february of this year, another mild heart attack by my unofficial count is six. as you say, ...