on charges he tried to blow up an international flight over detroit last christmas. in the middle box, lawyers for the south carolina woman accused of killing her two toddlers will ask a judge to let her out on bond. she reportedly confessed to swo or smothering her sons, strapping them into their car seats and rolling her car into the river. the bottom box the senate set to open an impeachment trial against a judge taking payoffs and lying under oath, the first impeachment impeachment trial since the case against bill clinton. jon: his filth they plants are blamed for a salmonella outbreak that killed two people nine years ago, now that peanut industry person is in the business. stuart parnell is back at work now as a consultant to other peanut companies. a federal criminal investigation is still hanging over his head. oregon congressman greg
waldon was the ranking republican on the hearing about the outbreak. one of the things i m going to ask to do is ask mr. parnell from the peanut corporation of america is it tp he d like to open the product and sample. there are recalled products in here and some that are probably okay now. but lives were lost and people were sickened because they took a chance, and i believe knowingly, shipping products that were contaminated. jon: congressman waldon joinsnous along with peter and jake hurley. peter testified at that hearing, his son, jake, there is one of the kids who got sick. peter, briefly tell us what happened to jake. well, back in january of 09, about a year and a half ago, jake got ill, and at the time, we thought it was the flu. and after a couple days, he started having blood in his diarrhea, so we took him to tkr-t and later found out
what happened here is they made the pace that went into other products, so you had nearly 4000 products recalled, 400 companies involved, all over the country. this company created an enormous, enormous, terrible problem for the lives of individuals and for many, many companies in the country as well. jon: congressman, very quickly, how is it that stuart parnell is back at work as a peanut company consultant? hey you know, ask eric holder, our u.s. attorney general in the justice department. i mean, i ve read through a lot of the e-mails and all. it was pretty clear and convincing to me what took place there. why after nearly 18 months they haven t brought charges, i cannot explain. this is not swift and certain justice for anybody involved and that s really where we need to get to. jon: nine people died, hundreds of people were sickened, including little jake hurley. jake, this happened almost two years ago, i know that s almost half a lifetime for you, but do you remember
from the lab results that he had salmonella poisoning. jon onand obviously he was a very sick little boy for a long time. he was sick for 11 days. and we also had an incident at home an infant at home at the time and we were very concerned, not not sure how anybody got salmonella poisoning, very worried that she could get the poisoning, and it could possibly be deadly for her. jon: congressman waldon, you were on that hearing in which stuart parnell, executive at the center of this story, i guess, refused to testify to congress, right, invoked his fifth amendment right? that s correct. yes. he took his fifth amendment rights. jon: just remind us because fox news covered this story at the time but remind us about the conditions at that plant that parnell was running. kwroerbgs they were awful. they were awful. there was all kinds of problems at that plant. it was dirty, one of his plants it turns out perhaps
how jake finally got that call. jenna: he s a puppy. anyway jon: we re here in the fox newsroom, where breaking news is coming in from across the country and around the world and sometimes we can get it on the air! the domestic desk covers the u.s. desk, the international desk watching events around the globe and the media desk bringing in the live pictures around the world. jenna: we like things mysterious but at all the time! house minority leader says he s willing to vote for the bush tax plan. it s the only way to extend tax relief for a vast majority of americans, the latest in the war of wars between boehner and the president and showing no signs of cooling down. this morning is a good example of that. james rose sen live in washington. the president is hitting the air waves bright and early to talk about. to talk about, well, more than john boehner. reporter: the white house is trying to have sport at boehner s expense. boehner, who s stepped up his own profile i