character but it s clear from the beginning this is just criminalizing politics. bret: what about the politics here? you had the white house chief of staff rahm emanuel talked about in this trial. in which he did reach out we re told by testimony to advocate for valerie jarret, senior advisor in the white house to get the senate seat, though the white house counsel put out a report saying the white house did not in the transition reach out at all. the politics for white house and democratic senate candidate in illinois, alexi giannoulias, who probably wants the case to go away as well, because he s tied to the characters as well. i agree with charles and kirsten, but a caveat. we need to wait to hear from jurors a little bit. if it was a deadlock of 11 for conviction and one weird hold-that says one thing. if it was more of a mess it says another. regardless, a huge black eye for fitzgerald. almost the worst of all possible worlds for the obama
truth. 18, 19, 20 years old, boy or girl, to control the life. this is how we see as the normal day-to-day occupation. reporter: breaking the silence, israeli human rights group documents alleged prisoner abuse released a number of other photos taken by soldiers grinning for the camera with detained or wounded palestinians. the group says such behavior happens all the time. however, none of the photos show detainee abuse. as for the young woman who originally posted the photos on facebook, the army says she has completed her service. so at this point, there is little they can do to punish her. in jerusalem, leland vittert, fox news. bret: what are believed to be only remaining recordings made in the clandestine prison system established after 9/11 has been discovered. showing the interrogation of accused 9/11 plotter were discovered under a desk at
why is there such concern moving the mosque forward when we can t get our church rebuilt? what about that religious freedom? look, a good point. i would add why are we still looking at an empty hole at 9/11 at ground zero? it s right now, it s grave. that s why it s a desecration to build provocative structure nearby. bret: that s it for the panel. stay tuned for even more pointed analysis on presid
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