Of a 14year sentence for a payforplay crimes. And you know, we are on the brink yet again of the shutdown of the federal government, as of 11 59 p. M. This coming saturday. And Speaker Mccarthy has a pretty stark choice to make. Will he save his job or the government . Is that really the rock and the hard place were at right now . Rightwing hard liners are threatening just that. And now, well, donald trump. And, everyone, she also spoke and broke the internet over the weekend. You see her right there. Im talking about taylor swift and travis kelce. Not what everyone is talking about. Are they dating or not . I cant pretend to care. But she has effect on jersey sales. And could she have a role in another way on the Actual Kansas city team . Well talk about that. I want to start by bringing in illinois governor rod blagojevich. He went to bprison after being convicted of corruption charges. His sentence was commuted by donald trump in 2020. Its great to be home. How are you . Im doing we
Withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account, which i have kept for emergencies and the history of my family Facing Confiscation in cuba. He did address these on your screen, the gold bars, the stash of gold bars. He did address the gift of the mercedesbenz convertible. And of course, he is absolutely innocent until Proven Guilty in a court of law. And he is not the first lawmakers to even face corruption allegations. In a moment, im going to talk to former illinois democratic governor ron blagojevich. He served eight years of 14 year sentence for a pay for play crimes. Plus, as you, know we are on the brink yet again of a shutdown of the federal government as of 11 59 pm this saturday. And as a pretty stark choice to make, will he save his job or the government, is that really the Rock And A Hard Place were at right now . Well, right hardliners are threatening just that. And now, while, donald trump. And everyone, she also spoke and broke the internet over t
it s going to be primarily on those two senators, manchin and sinema, but the white house, the president and senior democrats have made the calculation here that at this point, considering the pressure from the base, it s easier it s a better calculation to kind of go down fighting, really fight for really fight for something that the party wants, something that is crucial to a state that helped deliver him the president sip as well as a democratic-led senate, but at the same time it just shows you such in stark contrast limits of the powers of the presidency even for someone who was a veteran. senate for 36 years, that he does he does not possess the mother to change the mindsch at least two senators to advance his advance a major part of the democratic party s priorities, and this is not the first time that president biden has gone to the hill, put that personal muscle in to try to bring the caucus together. we saw those efforts late last year on the domestic agenda
and i called these group of people back when i was in congress fat white pink boys. they would sit there in their suss suspenders. winston churchill had some line about countries who go down without a fight don t tend to rise up again, but countries who go down fighting, although they go down, they have a future, i think there s some truth to that, at least at the individual level. i m not saying you should fly off the handle. that s how sunny corleone got killed in that tollbooth, right? we need to be smart. but i think when you look at the story of what happened at the republican party, as people was saying, there s a lot to it, but one of the pieces is cowardice.
and that communications barrier leads will lead to all sorts of trouble. all this conversation was in the hall after they had already decided there was no danger. but the decision was wrong, as hale points out. and what wayne was objecting to, what wayne was regretting was not slapping this guy down right away saying that was crazy. he didn t do it. it turned out he didn t have to because they never would have told. they never felt it was lost. but they missed the chance to find the mistake. they missed the chance to at least go down swinging, go down fighting. trying to fix the hole, trying to get a rescue ship up, trying to get international aid to resupply the shuttle. all those things would have been at least tried. whether they worked or not, we still don t know. but dying out of nowhere, totally out of left field, blindsided by reality, that s a way no one really wants to go. mr. oberg, how much have we learned from this tragedy in