and porn sites more than 16,000 times in a month but still managed to collect graphic material and he was suspended 14 days. jane: all this comes amid what we re looking at potentially on monday, the sweeping financial reform legislation, how does it all tie in? reporter: and also a week after the sec find a lawsuit against wall street powerhouse goldman sachs, prompting republicans on capitol hill to suggest the sec is doing major damage control right now. congressman darrell issa on the government reform committee issued a statement about this widespread violation of government ethics rules, saying, quote, this stunning report should make everyone question the wisdom of moving forward with plans to give regulators like the sec more authority, rather than exercising its regulatory authority, sec officials were preoccupied with other distractions, of course, some, allegedly. now the sec just released a statement saying it will not tolerate the transgressions of a very few and that ev
reporter: now, that s not to say that the president wasn t interested because according to the unredacted version of this notion, there is a union official believed to be the head of the seiu local 1 here in chicago who was contacted by then-senator obama the day before election day in 2008 and asked him to supposedly pass along a message to the governor that when we win this thing, i would like valerie jarrett to be considered as, to be appointed in my place in that particular seat. so while no one from the obama team, no one from the obama campaign staff, no one from the transition team may have had contact with the governor, then-governor at that particular point in time, there was an emissary, apparently, sent to pass along a message to governor blagojevich about the soon-to-be president s preference for that seat. jon? jon: steve brown live for us in chicago. keep an eye on that one, steve. thanks. jane: want to take you to little
boat so it doesn t let any smoke or gas come inside the boat. fortunately, this type of equipment saved those people. reporter: he s exactly right, jane. in fact, crews train inside these lifeboats twice a month, and that practice probably saved more than 100 lives. jane, back to you. jane: interesting stuff. chris, thank you. jon? jon: some pretty burning issues in this country right now relating to border security between the u.s. and mexico, and also the investigation into what led to the shootings at fort hood. after the break, connecticut senator joe lieberman joins us. he will talk about those topics and his arguments he s having with the administration. [ female announcer ] it s rollback time at walmart. right now, walmart has rolled back prices on top lawn carerands like poulan pr brute by briggs & stratton, pennington, scotts and spectracide. along with thousands of others all over the store. it s rollback time! save money. live better. walmart.
of maverick, someone who answers to her state, not to wall street or to the democratic party. if you look at the amount of money that outside interest groups are spending coming into the state of arkansas and spending against me from the left and from the right, trying to tell them, the people of arkansas, what they should think and, you know, who should represent them. that s not, that s not coming from, you know, the source of what my record is and what has this meant to arkansas. so i think that s important. reporter: now, senator lincoln s chief opponent in the democratic primary is the lieutenant governor of this state, bill halter. he is a former management consultant, an economist, a rhodes scholar, someone who worked on the budget and also ran the social security administration under president clinton. halter has faced some tough questions of his own including allegations about the outsourcing of jobs to india by a company he helped run.
things electronically, magically, all of this stuff appeared which included some pieces of information that both the government and the defense were told not to disclose to the public until the judge decides what s in and out in the blagojevich corruption case. so we haven t got an exact answer from the pacer folks as to how this happened, but it did happen. jon: so what do we know about why blagojevich wants the president to testify? reporter: it is believed that the president, in the defense s view, can hold up their version of accounts, that this seat, that the senate seat that the president gave up to become president was never really sold and that there was no account of any of this, and they point to a comment that the president made just a couple of days after blagojevich s arrest in december 2008. have a listen. i m absolutely certain about is that our office had no involvement in any deal making around my senate seat. that i m absolutely certainover. certain of.