all the tapes be her. they even misled and said the judge ruled that all the tapes wouldn t be played which was not the case at the time they filed the motion. greta: has your lawyer heard all these tapes? we had tapes for months. greta: you have copies? yes. i ve been consistent from the beginning. from the moment i was false lay accused, i said long before, we had access to the tapes, play all the tapes. i know, who i am and i would not do the things they are suggesting that i did. and i know that not withstanding, some language on the tapes the use of pro fan which i have apologized for. i didn t know the use of profanity which i have apologized for. greta: it is not a crime. any idea how many hours of tapes the prosecution intends to play at your june 3rd trial? i don t know. what i do know is they have in
all the tapes be her. they even misled and said the judge ruled that all the tapes wouldn t be played which was not the case at the time they filed the motion. greta: has your lawyer heard all these tapes? we had tapes for months. greta: you have copies? yes. i ve been consistent from the beginning. from the moment i was false lay accused, i said long before, we had access to the tapes, play all the tapes. i know, who i am and i would not do the things they are suggesting that i did. and i know that not withstanding, some language on the tapes the use of pro fan which i have apologized for. i didn t know the use of profanity which i have apologized for. greta: it is not a crime. any idea how many hours of tapes the prosecution intends to play at your june 3rd trial? i don t know. what i do know is they have in
election right here from this room. several other people about potential scenarios on the senate seat. greta: a lot of the conversations about the senate seat maybe some that aren t on tape but a lot are or should be because they are done by telephone? most of the conversations i was engaged in during that six week period had been tape recorded. greta: you mentioned president obama. you have filed notice to the court that would you like to subpoena him. and you have enumerated a number of reasons. what is it that you think senator obama president obama, then senate obama, could offer you at trial on june 3rd that would be helpful to your case? i think president obama can help prove my innocence. greta: how? before anybody says i m interested in bringing everybody down with me. that s not the case, i ve done nothing wrong.
again, the evidence that we have access to that we had the chance to review, the taped conversations. greta: that s out. the fbi interviews. the statements of potential witnesses, all those things are not something that would be appropriate for know comment on. let me also say in the case of president obama and me, again let me be very clear, i know absolutely no wrongdoing that the president was involved in. and i know i was involved in no wrongdoing. but there is a common political support of ours named tony rezko who is relevant to both me and press obama. again he wrote a letter to a federal sentencing judge greta: is rezko helpful to you at your june 3rd, trial? i can t comment about the specifics of the case. greta: is he on your witness list? i ll leave that for the lawyers to discuss.
december 9th, 2008 the fbi barged in and he was arrested. he s accused of trying to sell then senator ma s open senate seat to the highest senator obama s open senate seat to the highest bidder. nice to see you. thank you. greta: you have this trial coming up june 3rd, a lot of pretrial matters have come to light recently. first, the tapes. the prosecutor has wiretapped you, has tapes of you and there s a disyou over what is going to be played in court. what is the distribute? they taped my conversations for six weeks. our government came in the wire tapes in these telephones and a lot of other telephones. i ve taken the position from the beginning that i m innocent of anything and everything they are false lay caution me of and a lot of the truth can be found in those tapes. from the beginning i said play all the tapes. my lawyers were instructed by