shannon: they are dragging their feet on the defense bills. do you think it has weakened any position within the pentagon or department of defense? it probably has. the army chief of staff, there are thing they wanted to have for national security and they have been tang out of the defense budget. now the commission is talking about taking additional budget steps. this country is teetering from an economic standpoint. we have to find some cuts and do it smartly. i m concerned they are cutting for cuts with the research, the procurement, with modernization. those are not ripe to cut. they have said as far as overseas bases there are some we can cut and i do believe we can get some savings from cutting some of the base overseas.
so now rod blagojevich could petition the court for public funds to pick up the rest of his defense bill. the court could do that. could say, we ll pay it at the same rate of public defenders which is about $110 an hour. or they could order that some of the blagojevich s assets sold off. they say they re about $200,000 in debt. so the u.s. taxpayer could end up paying some of blagojevich s defense bills here, chuck, savannah. good grief. i would think that they d have to show they were indigent to get public defender government-paid defense. john yang, keep us posted on that one. appreciate it. reporter: absolutely. all right. let s do the trivia, chuck. how about these fighting words? which governor reportedly told a state legislator don t ever cross me or your head will be in your lap before you even know i ve drawn my knife? not an e-mail of chuck to me this morning. i have to say