Do it in a half hour. But first, the official response generally to the president s state of the union speech has always been a prestige spot for politicians who wish to destroy their own president ial ambitions. [laughter] from rising star louisiana bobby jindal to Mitch Daniels Haunted House apparition impression to marco rubios why did i eat the silica gel desiccant i found in my suit pocket . Im so thirsty its clearly marked do not eat. Not everyone faces such immediate destruction. Virginia governor Bob Mcdonnells state of the Union Rebuttal was well received and well delivered, but dont think that will allow him to escape the curse. [maniacal laughing] the former governor of virginia on trial for corruption. For influence peddling. Extaking 1. 5,000 in gifts for political favors. Jon thats right. Virginia is for lovers of money. You know cold hard cash cant hold you at night, and blank check cant wipe away your tears. You cant lay a sacagwea coin on a bed of rose pedals and softl
State of the union speech has always been a prestige spot for politicians who wish to destroy their own president ial ambitions. [laughter] from rising star louisiana bobby jindal to Mitch Daniels Haunted House apparition impression to marco rubios why did i eat the silica gel desiccant i found in my suit pocket . Im so thirsty its clearly marked do not eat. Not everyone faces such immediate destruction. Virginia governor Bob Mcdonnells state of the Union Rebuttal was well received and well delivered, but dont think that will allow him to escape the curse. [maniacal laughing] the former governor of virginia on trial for corruption. For influence peddling. Extaking 1. 5,000 in gifts for political favors. Jon thats right. Virginia is for lovers of money. You know cold hard cash cant hold you at night, and blank check cant wipe away your tears. You cant lay a sacagwea coin on a bed of rose pedals and softly im sorry. Im working on a romance novel. Its in the subgenre of the paranormal sub
Favors. Jon thats right. Virginia is for lovers of money. You know cold hard cash cant hold you at night, and blank check cant wipe away your tears. You cant lay a sacagwea coin on a bed of rose pedals and softly im sorry. Im working on a romance novel. Its in the subgenre of the paranormal subgenre of the teen romance novel subgenre. The feds say mcdonnell and his wife were showered with gifts from millionaire businessman Johnnie Williams in exchange for special treatment. Thats just one side of the story. What does millionaire businessman Johnnie Williams say. Williams says she showered former Virginia Governor Bob Mcdonnell and his wife with gifts in exchange for help promoting the tobaccobased bill he invented and was pitching as a wonder drug of sorts. [laughter] jon i guess there is only one side of the story. By the way, the wonder drug he was pitching is called antabloc. You may be wondering how someone could turn a tobaccobased pill into a wonder drug, because thats what it is
Joining us. Im andrea roane. Former Virginia Governor Bob Mcdonnell says he is looking forward to bringing his corruption trial to a conclusion. He told peggy fox this morning its been a long five weeks and peggy is standing by live outside the courthouse in richmond with more. Peggy what was today like . Reporter well, the final witness was a rebuttal witness from the prosecution. And fbi agent who analyzed the number of nights Bob Mcdonnell and his wife spent at the mansion together. Theyre trying to show that they conspired to sell the power of the Governors Office to Johnnie Williams in exchange for taking the largess. 177,000 worth of gifts and loans. And the agent says they were together 90 of the night. During that 22 month period that is at stake here. But the defense came back and pointed out oh, yeah, but 20 of those nights the governor was out of town and came back extremely late at night. The defense says these two could not have conspired together because the marriage was
Smiledsmil the metro station. One woman died investigators say an electrical problem could have behind what happened. Theyre meeting with metro er you can hear people on board the train coughing profusely. We spoke to the man who took this cell phone video. He says he helped one woman who could not breathe. News 4s Megan Mcgrath is live outside the plaza metro station right now with more on that. Megan, good morning. Reporter good morning, barb Jonathan Rogers was the man who took that cell phone video that you just heard, and we spoke to him this morning. His description of the conditions on board that train are just frightening. He says it was dark. Smoke was pouring in and people were having trouble breathing. Through cell phone snapshots and videos we are getting a better picture of the chaos that happened on board that metro train. In this video taken by Jonathan Rogers you can hear people coughing and choking. Rogers says smoke was pouring into the train, and it was getting hard