the other counts. john hendren is joining us this morning with more on the verdict. good morning, john. reporter: good morning, vinita. a six-week trial, two weeks of jury deliberations and one conviction to show for it. but the prosecution of the former illinois governor is not over. it was a colossal setback for prosecutors. one that left former governor rod blagojevich largely in the clear and wholly defiant. perhaps, maybe, the biggest lesson i ve learned is that i talk too much. reporter: on 23 counts, no conviction. including the most serious charge of trying to sell president obama s former senate seat. the kind that would make lincoln roll over in his grave. reporter: there was a lone sis denter on the fourth charge. every count except for one, they could not prove that i did anything wrong. that i didn t break any laws. reporter: that, despite more than 100 wiretaps, like this one. i mean, i ve got this thing. and it s [ bleep ] golden. and i m just n
hunter that is to say is here in the studio. i was just talking to him in the green room. but, perhaps, not for long. gary faulkner told me he s ready to go back and look for bin laden. this has always been a nation of builders, craftsmen. men and women for whom straight stitches and clean welds were matters of personal pride. they made the skyscrapers and the cotton gins. colt revolvers, jeep 4 x 4 s these things make us who we are. as a people, we do well when we makeood things and not so well when we don t. the good new is, this can be put right. we just have to do it. and so we did. this, our newest son, was imagined, drawn, carved, stamped, hewn and forged here in america. it is well made and it is designed to work. this was once a country where people made things,
general stanley mcchrystal who made those disparaging remarks about the president and other civilian leaders in the obama administration and, of course, that appeared in the rolling stone magazine and we all recall what happened last week, that the president accepted the resignation of general stanley mcchrystal and then passed the baton over to general david petraeus who is quite capable of handling the operations there. democrats and republicans, you can expect they will have questions about how petraeus can restore the relationship between military and civilian leadership in the war. they will also likely ask him how he intends to win the war which has become a question mark of late to some members on capitol hill including some people throughout the country and then what strategy will he implement to do so? petraeus will likely continue to implementing mcchrystal s counter insurgency plan, a plan by the way that petraeus helped to co-author in the beginning days of the
shepard: the american to says he went to pakistan to hunt down and kill osama bin laden made the tv seahawk show rounds today and it was quite something as he told more about his one-man mission. 50-year-old gary faulkner now says he wanted to take the al qaeda leader alive and bring him to justice. earlier this month, pakistani police arrested faulkner along the border with afghanistan. they say he was armed with a pistol, a sword, and night vision equipment and that he claimed to be out to kill bin laden. did you find out where he was? he was waiting in cave for me to go get him. you are on tv he may be moving to another cave. impossible. now that it s known you can t just pop out there. you are right. satellites are up there. you have other people around looking. shepard: the government now admits it hasn t known where bin laden is for years. faulkner who gets dialysis from
gary faulkner returned to the u.s. after being arrested in the country. he was near the afghan border with a sword, pistol and night vision goggles. he said he wanted to capture bin laden to bring at the u.s. to face justice, on a mission from god, marking his seventh trip. his brother says he s not psychotic and does not have schizophrenia. a major supreme court reeling today. the decision 5-4 ruling gives federal judges power to strike down state and local laws to limit possession of certain firearms. james rosen is tackling this, a case that originated in chicago and landed in the supreme court today. once again 5-4, a ruling that