the maximum penalty for lying to the f.b.i. is five years for each individual act. the government said they would lump the two together. we have always heard from the government they will not move directly to sentencing. what they will do as per the judge s order is move to mistrial. that is because the jury hung on the other 23 counts. the government wants to bring a new trial. certainly against rod blagojevich and possibly against robert blagojevich who spoke a new moments ago. robert blagojevich looked at the hung jury as a vindication. he declared the process a slow bleed that took away his finances. he couldn t answer if he could afford another trial, but they are anticipating that the government will bring charges at least against rod blagojevich again. bret: so the jury deliberated for 14 days. they find on one count of the 24. the government says they are going to go forward and try rod blagojevich again. do we expect to hear from the former governor at the
i want to express my gratitude to men and women of the jury and remind people of illinois, i didn t let you down. the jury has shown the government couldn t prove i did anything wrong. we are going to appeal the lying decision and we re hopeful that the law is on our side with regard to that. bret: former governor rod blagojevich talking about a federal jury that just found him guilty on one out of 24 counts. the one count was lying to federal agents, as you look live there. we decided to speak at the microphone. he faced 24 counts in all, including charges he tried to sell or trade president obama s old senate seat for the single charge of lying to a federal agent. he does face five years in prison. up to $250,000 fine. we re hearing from the government that prosecutors may try him again on the other charges. 23 charges that the jury was
bribery. the jury couldn t reach guilty verdict on any of the charges. bret: okay, mike. he s found guilty on the one federal charge of lying to federal agents. as you said there, single charge of lying to federal agent. he could face up to five years in prison, $250,000 fine. what is the sense of the defense? have they spoken out about what they are feeling about this verdict? and the prospect that the government is going to try rod blagojevich and his brother again? the only part of the defense we heard the from thus far is rod blagojevich and his attorney michael ettinger. they took to the microphones and wrapped up speaking moments ago. they look at this to some extent as vindication. pardon me. someone is giving me a heads up right now, just indicating that the jurors at this stage of the game will not talk and explain why they came to the one decision they did come to and the 23 decisions they did
wasn t enough to convince all 12 members of the jury. we don t have the mathematical breakdown. what is interesting, what wasn t plays in court this time around, when they bring the case again they can hit rod blagojevich with it the second time. bret? bret: mike tobin live in chicago. we have more on this if the panel. we may hear from the former governor. mike, thank you. you can add to the debate over a planned mosque near ground zero in new york. a few disagreement. over what sponsors of the project are considering backing off. correspondent james rosen has the update. aide to david paterson, who offered alternate site for the mosque claimed to meet with the backers to discuss that but when fox news eric shawn contact ed the ceo of the properties, the owner of the culture center and asked if a meeting with
hamstring. mark martin, the guy was very good. the legal books. i want to thank them and thank jay wallace for being here. salters. and all the other young attorneys who worked hard on our behalf. let me also express my appreciation to men and women who served on the jury. thank them for their hard work, giving up their summer. they did their duty as citizens and they deliberated and they took time. and i want to thank them for their hard work and their deliberation. and for the sacrifice they made as our citizens. let me also say to the people of illinois from the beginning when this all happened i told them i did not let them down, i didn t break any laws, i didn t do anything wrong. the government, the federal government in this particular prosecutor did everything he could to target me prosecute me, persecute me, put pressure on my family, take