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a state that is getting pretty acustomed to political scandals. in january as you may recall former governor bob mcdonnell and his wife were indicted on fourteen counts for allegedly accepting more than $165,000 in gifts and loans from a virginia business man. in exchange for promoting his products. they deny they broke the law. they go on trial next month. it centers on this man, philip puckett until today was a democratic state senator from a largely republican district. in the southwestern part of the state. puckett formally resigned today. you may be saying no big deal. state sen...

White house continuing to drive this condition -- conversation and say we don't have answers. it's going to be hard to put this aside. >> the ranking member of that committee, senator saxbe chambliss. here's what he says. >> they were concerned that if they did not make this exchange, that his life would be in danger as a result of bad health. well, no intelligence supported that. and now they come back and because he is in decent health considering where he's been, they have changed their story. they said we suspect his life may be in danger. if word got out of this pending possible trade, th...

Reasons, all of a sudden he shows up and that apparently is not true, so they make up a second excuse, well, they would have kill him had word leaked out. chambliss is telling us there's no evidence of that. why not just say the truth. it was a hard deal, a difficult deal, a repulse sieve deal but we did it. again the same way other countries have done in redeeming their captives, but the lie after lie and also the pretense that this is ought to be something to celebrate with the rose garden stunt is appalling. that's even people who would have done the swap like me is simply disgusted and app...

on an em battled restless president. president obama slipped out of the white house unannounced to grab a cup of tea at a starbucks. republicans and some democrats are not backing off from questions about the release of bowe bergdahl. the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers questioning whether the president abused his executive power and paid too high a price giving up five taliban commanders in the prisoner swap. >> we have made a serious, serious geo political mistake. >> the democratic chair of the senate intelligence committee, dianne feinstein al...

foreign relation, richard haass with us. how was that dust-up with my dad? went okay at the cfr last week, couldn't agree on a few things. >> but didn't call me stunningly stupid. >> as long as you don't blame the 2000 breakup of the peace talks on arafat, that's fine. >> that's old news. >> how was your weekend? >> great. >> how was yours? >> i got last in the swamps of jersey, brought in by a family. you know what, i will sell the memoir to meachem, called "three cups of cafe mocha." >> i get where you're going. "60 minutes," steve croft takes down one of the most celebrated auth...