circle. first chief of staff, rahm emanuel who was part of the daley machine and then he went on to be mayor of the chicago. then who replaced rahm emanuel? bill daley, the brother of the mayor of chicago who is that is the daley machine literally. ironically, both never worked out. they ran a follow to valerie jarrett who is the aide that always stays. anyway, the bottom line is we re not talking about finality here, we re talking about a very rich soap opera story and a lot of interesting connections and if eric whitaker really did offer reverend wright $150,000 to shut up, that s a problem. no kidding. that s a bit of a headline, that the mainstream media might have picked up on. john fund, always a pleasure. thanks for stopping by on this friday. thank you. next, have trouble parallel parking, perhaps? not this guy. he just broke the world record for the best parking job. how did he do it? look at that. he s my hero. and t supersized smackdown. one of the nation s bigge
you ve been an actress with one tree hill and you ve been in entourage. and other shows as well. i grew up, like i said, i grew up listening to country music and country music is always it s my heart and country music tells a story and i have a million stories to tell. and i love the country fans. and the radio, like they re fantastic. so that this is where you want to find yourself. 100%. i understand that if you had a choice with touring with one person dead or alive, it would be johnny cash. i m in love with him. what is it about johnny cash? so handsome and like, his songs, it s like that bad boy, you know what i m saying? listen to that. you can t they ll do that no matter what you say, ok? this game is fixed! by the way, who are all these kids who young ladies and gentlemen, who are dressed, the krispy kreme people. no, they re from california. they re awesome! they re from california to follow you around?
blagojevich, the other federal governor now in public housing, in prison, he s the guy who hired eric whitaker who is obama s body man, who is obama s, you know, gatekeeper. eric whitaker is the guy who reverend wright says he offered me $150,000 in 2008 to shut up and stop talking about barack obama. how come we re only hearing about this guy, eric whitaker, now? well, ed klein who wrote a book called the amateur which is number one on the new york times bestseller list broke this story. he has tapes of reverend wright telling him that. the obama campaign apparently is silent other than to say klein is completely wrong. they don t have any other comment and i believe the reason that klein s book is number one on the new york times bestseller list, it s not the world s greatest book but doing work the rest of the media never did. valerie jarrett might be the most powerful person in the white house outside of the president. i think she s clearly number one and remember, th
maybe it s not vitamin b-12 and everything else and their production went from 12 home runs to 40 home runs and their salary went from $2 million to $14 million a year. all the guys are saying it s worth it. i m bigger and stronger and producing. baseball loved it. they benefited from it. sammy sosha and mark mcgwire, they had a boom year. that s what brought baseball back. fans benefited and the owners because more fans came to the game. there was nothing like it. we all try to do something to improve our health. i have a 2-year-old and 6-year-old. thank god for performance enhancing drugs. johnny, i got to tell you one thing, this story has a different angle. awe all the minor leaguers who knew they were cheating and they never got to the major leagues and never got past double a and these are guys that we don t know of. they don t have names like johnny bench and mark mcgwire. so it was clearly cheating. 1% of 1% is in the hall of fame of all the players and everything els
oh, no, he was just kidding about that! he was? you re not going to india? what he meant to say is he d take me away to india. tell me what you win for doing this accomplishing this incredible feat on live television on espn. what do you win? well, i win about around $40,000 in cash and prizes. and i get this huge engraved trophy. that s fantastic. and before you go, what do you want to be when you grow up? i want to be a neurosurgeon or a psychiatrist. terrific. you know what? you re living the american dream. hats off to you. thank you. what an amazing accomplishment. i m sure you re going to have a fantastic future. thanks so much for joining us this morning. thank you. way to go! all right. next up on the rundown on this friday, this unbelievable video giving new meaning to belly up to the bar. we have the story behind that shocking video that wasn t