i ve got this thing, and it s [bleep] golden. -yeah. -[audience laughter] and i m not just giving it up for [bleep] nothing. [laughter] was there a second [bleep] in there? tapper: racking up a staggering 24 criminal charges, governor blagojevich s actions essentially boiled down to four things extortion, bribery, corruption, and wire fraud. and it wasn t just about the senate seat. blagojevich was also found guilty of extorting a children s hospital. you can t write this stuff. he s an arrogant punk who thinks that, you know, he s bulletproof. well, he s not. he was convicted on 18 total charges and sentenced to 14 years, the longest sentence ever handed down to a governor. people loathed blagojevich for the way he politicked, but was what he did so blatantly criminal? cause the truth is that the line between what s illegal and what s allowable is much murkier than we d like to think, and this is where the rod blagojevich story gets interesting. let me reassert to all
stores in paris dress up their window displays for the holidays and they ve been doing that for decades. it s a tradition that many persians both young and old look forward to at this time of year it s a book they ve used to feel it s the magic of christmas if we re trying to you like . oh well i think they re important the department stores do them every year and the children are happy. i wanted to come and see them they re always different and i change it s nice a sign of christmas in. the christmas window displays at the big department stores are true works of art they re more inventive and more surprising every passing year the tradition started in the early twentieth century. you kinda know what i think the christmas windows were created after world war one and during a depressing time. they were meant to raise the morale of the persians and all the
french. i think. the department store credit tong has taken part in this festive tradition from the very start. planning the vario
class= nosel > all russian and soviet dictators, their problem is they always think that they re the last line of defense. you are in power. you have the right to, if you decide, to destroy it so nobody else will get it. the united states doesn t even notice that the soviets are on edge. they didn t even put the soviet reaction into ronald reagan s presidential daily brief. [indistinct radio chatter] [narrator] before andropov can act, the able archer operation wraps up on schedule. [pilot] roger that. [narrator] andropov is finally persuaded that this really was just an exercise. this time. [tim] the united states didn t know to ratchet down the tension when it really mattered. that is an indicator of just the lack of understanding that the united states and the soviet union had of each other. but in a nuclear confrontation, lack of understanding can have catastrophic consequences when adversaries have nuclear weapons pointed at each other and don t understand each other. e