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Not far from chattanooga. that area got a little snow. which might have been a shock. people saw the zebra around town. nobody could catch it until now. the owner says some neighbors finally roped the thing in and brought him back to the farm. >> on this day in 1990 the soviet union elected mikhail gorbachev to a presidency that would collapse in months. he had pushed for political reform, breaking down the party's power and evegetablely establishing a -- eventually establishing a new congress. the congress later elected gorbachev to the new and powerful presidency he created -- that he himsel...

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Said big oil. i'm ed schulze, chris matthews and "hardball" is next. we'll see you tomorrow night from minneapolis. have a great one. \s hardball >> joe barton and bp. a love story. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, who's sorry now? bp's ceo tony hayward testified on capitol hill today but perhaps the biggest news was made by republican joe barton of texas. he apologized to bp and said making establishing a $20 billion escrow fund a slush fund he called it, amounted to a federal shakedown. although barton would later retract all of th...

Shakedown slush fund, whatever terms he's using now. let's listen. >> if obama's past is prologue, and it is, then this is going to be used as a little miniature slush fund. and that's why he's bragging about it being third party independent so for the and so on. >> congresswoman degette, is there a little carrier pigeon that goes around from mark levin to rush limbaugh to michele bachmann to joe barton? who delivers these little pearls like slush fund you? know and shake down? where do these words come from? >> they don't tell me where they got those words but i was sitting right there when j...

Shakedown, in this case a $20 billion shakedown, with the attorney general of the united states who is legitimately conducting a criminal investigation and has every right to do so to protect the interests of the american people, participating in what amounts to a $20 billion slush fund. so i'm only speaking for myself. i'm not speaking for anybody else. but i apologize. >> wow. that was joe barton, the consciousman from texas. later in the day, hours later after a lot of heat came down on him includeding to be fair, heat from his fellow republican, the leaderships of his feather i said this, ...