we have a prosecutor who wasted and wants to spend tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to persecute me and my family. take me away from my little girls as well as take my home away from us. i want to thank the jury. most people say you can t fight city hall and they say when the federal prosecutors come at you like they did me and threw everything they could at me, 24 charges i said from the beginning are false. the jury agreed that the government did not prove the case. let me also point out, let me also point out, we didn t put defense on and the government couldn t prove the case. patty and i, patty and i will continue the fight, because the fight is bigger than just me. this is a family for the freedom that we as americans enjoy. the right to be able to be innocent, the right to be able to do your job. and to not be lied about. so we re going to continue to fight.
we have a prosecutor who wasted and wants to spend tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to persecute me and my family. take me away from my little girls as well as take my home away from us. i want to thank the jury. most people say you can t fight city hall and they say when the federal prosecutors come at you like they did me and threw everything they could at me, 24 charges i said from the beginning are false. the jury agreed that the government did not prove the case. let me also point out, let me also point out, we didn t put defense on and the government couldn t prove the case. patty and i, patty and i will continue the fight, because the fight is bigger than just me. this is a family for the freedom that we as americans enjoy. the right to be able to be innocent, the right to be able to do your job. and to not be lied about. so we re going to continue to fight. i want to express my
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 me away from my home and
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
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