an ied attack killed eight service members on foot patrol in southern afghanistan s kandahar province. that attack is the deadliest on americans this year in afghanistan. another american died in a helicopter crash in eastern afghanistan, bringing the day s death toll to nine. back here, after weeks of speculation, embattled former illinois governor rod blagojevich testified in his own defense yesterday. blagojevich spent four hours on the stand, regaling jurors with details of his personal history and denying the corruption charges against him. we get the latest now from nbc s nick bogert, who joins us from chicago. so, nick, what was blagojevich like on the stand? and did he score any points in his own defense? well, savannah, rod blagojevich was a rambling witness, i think it s fair to say that. that may actually help the defense, because one of the arguments they re going to make is that he s such a disorganized, messy thinker, so to say, that he couldn t have
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thought about the surveillance tapes. he also mention ed winton churchill, how he had ten ideas a day and only one was a good one. he also talked about he s not a very good lawyer. he nearly flunked out of law school. he went from being a legal researcher to an errand boy on one of his forest jobs and also told his lawyers that he didn t have any familiarity at all with the charges he s facing. he s flatly denied three of the five schemes he s being charged, but these are the ones that are only marginally mentioned on the audiotapes the jury has heard. the scheme with the most audiotape, where he was trying to barter illinois s senate seat for some kind of campaign or job for himself, that has yet to come up. that might be a little more time consuming. and the beg risk and gamble with putting blagojevich on the stand has always been that he