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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 i'm here to tell the truth. b-rod is facing charges inclusion allegations that he tried to sell president obama's vacated senate seat for personal gain. last year at his first trial he didn't testify, and the jury deadlocked on most of the charges. we'll be right back. >> we've 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 isn't letting them create pages with the word palestinian in the title. palestinn refugee research net says the word is not making it through facebook's automatic filters. computer experts point out that the words -- words palestine and palestinians made it through the filters with no problem and the word palestinian itself is allowed for group titles. >> what's up with that? >> the pl...

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 hearing on the release and they'll be looking at his release in connection to b.p. he is the only person...

>> let's 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, he's pulling a full-court press on you, that's jesse jackson jr.? >> yeah. >> he's 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 him a lot of money. how does he get dragged into this this thing at this point? >> he gets drag...

>> 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 rod's 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 not been a player in rod's re-election campaign, and rod wanted to use the senate seat, could you hea...