shepard: his destiny may be prison. we re not totally clear and he is not totally in the clear. he does face the possibility of prison time for lying to the feds. but he was facing more than 400 years, the possibility thereof, when he woke up this morning. mike tobin live in federal courthouse on planet blago tonight. mike? you know, shepard, it was absolutely remarkable to watch robb blagojevich walk out of this courthouse and be cheered by masses as though he was some kind of champion athlete. predictably turning back on the prosecutors they got him on one nebulous charge as they described it and didn t win convictions on any of the core charges related to extortion, bribery, racketeering or wire fraud. the lead attorney for rod
going to be guilty. it s not going to be racketeering or wire fraud. it may be on lying or something that s not a big deal, but even if they come back not guilty on those two, we re doing this again. if i m the government, i m not thrilled about it but i get a do-over and that s huge. shepard: what was your question? what a blow to the government a case of this magnitude. if you can t convince one 12-person jury of defendant s peers in illinois to come back with a guilty verdict i don t understand i don t understand, what a blow. this jury wasn t good enough to find 12 more, that s ridiculous and if the government does that, that wouldn t that s not that unusual. you get a hung jury and the government tries it again. that s not weird. you get a hung jury on a