to expand government regulation. they make permanent this idea of a group of companies that are too big to fail. the promise was we were going to fix that greta: senator blanche lincoln, we spoked to her last week. she proposed transparency on the derivative market that seemed like a good idea you had a problem with that? her and saxby chambliss worked out a compromise until the president called and said no bipartisanship. grassley a republican voted with her to get it out of agricultural committee. she and senator chambliss had announced a compromise and that whole thing was axed by the white house and she put out another bill which went through committee with almost no bipartisan support. greta: with senator grassley? it came out with senator grassley i m on the banking committee for months we ve been working with the democrats. i ve never soon a situation
again, the evidence that we have access to that we had the chance to review, the taped conversations. greta: that s out. the fbi interviews. the statements of potential witnesses, all those things are not something that would be appropriate for know comment on. let me also say in the case of president obama and me, again let me be very clear, i know absolutely no wrongdoing that the president was involved in. and i know i was involved in no wrongdoing. but there is a common political support of ours named tony rezko who is relevant to both me and press obama. again he wrote a letter to a federal sentencing judge greta: is rezko helpful to you at your june 3rd, trial? i can t comment about the specifics of the case. greta: is he on your witness list? i ll leave that for the lawyers to discuss.
going to do that he campaigned to being this transformational figure. he hasn t lived up to what said he was going to be. if there s one major criticism of the president that i think hopefully, everyone would agree to, he hasn t delivered what he promised. i think it is bad form for the president of the united states to single out specific groups of people and say you are the you ones i m talking to. you are the ones we need your support. again, if a republican had done that on the other side they would have been creamed. greta: his senate seat the democratic candidate has some problems the bank of the family. the bank he was an executive of for many years, i think five years it failed going to cost the tax pairs 400 million dollars. there s all tax payers 400 million dollars. there s all sorts of scandal surrounding the failure. he s in big trouble there s a
changes. a race against time as crews attempt to stop a massive oil leak from reaching the louisiana shore. the spill is from a sunken oil rig that exploded last week, killing 11 workers. it s gushing 42,000 gallons of crude into the gulf of mexico, daily. the oil could reach land in three days. crews are using robot submarines to activate valves that might stop these leaks. i m ainsley earhardt, now back to greta. ur website, foxnews.com. greta: continuing with former governor rod blagojevich. why does governor blagojevich want to put president obama on the witness stand? we went to chicago to find out. you are accused of selling the senate seat vacated by president obama. everyone that you ever had a conversation with about that senate seat, is there any way you could have spoken to someone and not have it
december 9th, 2008 the fbi barged in and he was arrested. he s accused of trying to sell then senator ma s open senate seat to the highest senator obama s open senate seat to the highest bidder. nice to see you. thank you. greta: you have this trial coming up june 3rd, a lot of pretrial matters have come to light recently. first, the tapes. the prosecutor has wiretapped you, has tapes of you and there s a disyou over what is going to be played in court. what is the distribute? they taped my conversations for six weeks. our government came in the wire tapes in these telephones and a lot of other telephones. i ve taken the position from the beginning that i m innocent of anything and everything they are false lay caution me of and a lot of the truth can be found in those tapes. from the beginning i said play all the tapes. my lawyers were instructed by