>> oh mess >> every day in every state across the country our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers pulling in millions of dollars a race sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phonebook, and emails, so many emails. >> but >> for all those little fish drawing $100 to their local race, it's the whales, those campaign fundraisers really need powerful and rich individuals and companies. and when they donate 20 5,000, $1 million, they want a favor or ten >> it should be >> obvious that that's corrupt, but with a wink and nod, political deals to the bribery line every single day. and we may never have noticed that certain illinois the governor hadn't flung back the curtain within unrepentant ego, a political corruption, crime spree in a set of unprecedented audio recordings that shined a bright light on the inner workings of american political power. ladies and gentlemen meet rod blagojevich's >> it was early morning because i used to get up every morning and turn on the 06:00 news then, you know, like you can awake him up and then you're like, whoa wait, what oh, outside of a boy, which is house, they got cameras, they got cars. and then they march amount and yellow eye that's a governor joe. >> breaking news. the illinois governor, rod blagojevich's charged with plotting to sell barack obama's former senate seat. >> remember this guy. he sure hopes he do. governor rod blagojevich's went down in a blaze of infamy for one of the largest political corruption scandals of our time. >> the governor was allegedly trying to sell the illinois senate seat vacated by president elect obama in fact, part of the governor sales pitch, who's at the seats still had that new obama smell >> appointing someone to the senate is a rare opportunity when the will of the people is swapped wholesale for a gubernatorial power trip will go have a ced, the sole authority to place whomever he wanted straight into the halls of the us senate and he was not shy about wanting a little something in return. with the fbi recording his phone calls for the first time since nixon, the public was able to listen in on raw backroom politics. and there's nothing quite like hearing it from the horse's mouth the criminal complaint quotes blagojevich's saying the senate seat was a valuable thing. you just don't give it away for nothing. >> another quote, i've got this thing and it's bleeping golden. >> i've got this thing go and i'm just not given up. nothing. >> i've got this thing and it's in gold. yeah >> i'm not just giving it up for nothing >> was there a second? >> then they're racking up a staggering 24 criminal charges. governor blagojevich's actions essentially boiled down to four things. extortion bribery, corruption, and wire fraud and it wasn't just about the senate seat will go, which was also found guilty of extorting a children's hospital you can't write this stuff. >> he's an arrogant punk who thinks that, you know, he's bulletproof. well, he's not he was convicted on 18 total charges and sentenced to 14 years, the longest sentence ever handed down to a governor >> people loathe the image for the way he >> politics, but was what he did so blatantly criminal because the truth is that the line between what's illegal and what's allowable is much murkier than we'd like to thank this is where the rod blagojevich's story gets interesting. >> let me reassert to all of you, wants more that i am not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing. >> was rod a corrupt politician or just a politician operating in a corrupt system that still thrives to this day. >> so governor, thanks for joining us. thank you. so you've >> been out of prison now for almost two years, little over two years, and you're still very outspoken about how you feel like the case against you was unjust there isn't really an argument about what you said. it's on tape by the question, is whether it was illegal and whether it was morally wrong. >> look, if you're saying do we have a fundraising system in america that you could argue is legalized bribery i think there's truth to that. but did i do anything other than that standard that every other person in politics does from president biden on down. i did the same as them and nothing worse. there is this real problem in american politics today, where prosecutors are weaponizing themselves criminalizing routine and legal practices and government in politics. and i think it's wrong when they do to bill clinton. it's wrong. i think when they did it to president trump because i have strong views on that and i know it was wrong and they did it to me >> okay. well, it's one factor. >> let's talk about the chicago in illinois system because you're hardly the first governor in history, even in recent history, to go to prison what's the situation here that causes this to happen? >> well, i think it's time >> honored here and there's a long history in chicago politics, illinois politics were pretty much everybody gets rich chicago politics. it's like go into a paper. when you go fishing, like give, you are as the curator, you can not be in illinois and not get something illinois steeped in a rich history of political corruption that dates back a century to the prohibition era, when bootlegging gangster such as al capone bought off politicians and police departments, keeping them drunk on power and also just drunk and rides lifetime illinois has developed a rap sheet that any mobster would be proud of >> more than >> 1,700 convictions for corruption, including nearly 30 chicago alderman, eight state legislators to us congressmen. and before rod came onto the scene, three governors in an odd way, the very people who should hate the idea of corruption or kind of proud that this is al capone is illinois chicago is a wink and nod town it's a shot and a beer town >> a lot of it has to do with family relationships because a lot of the political leadership in chicago in illinois, our family unrelated. there's the daily family madigan all of these families sort of become part of this mafia. a political mafia, and they're the ones who make the rules i didn't come from that. i had to marry into it. i met a girl 6 march 1988. she was wearing a red dress and she happened to be the daughter of a old-fashion in chicago political ward boss. and she's my wife, patti and fell in love >> patty will go evich is a loyal wife. she is a tough customer and she's the daughter of dick male. she's complicated >> that budding relationship between those two is how rod goes from this. nobody politically finding a way to kind of embed himself into one of these big political families in chicago. they had so much power. i don't think it was some great surprise that like, you know, when it comes time to meet the parents that dick mel was the father-in-law and the powerful city council chieftain in a shrine to work he added a foot display city it back together so that all part of it are you all for free >> dick male was >> a guy who always had her voice in the backrooms. he was a powerbroker in that kind of chicago classic sense before politics, it was a nice relationship, but for the most part respectful and then because i was in the family and i was actually pretty good at helping her dad local politics, knocking on doors and trying to get them votes. there was an opportunity to run for office in rod blagojevich's male could see a guy that eventually if he doesn't write, i could sort of pass the mantle toward rod was an immediate hit with illinois voters who >> sent him first to the statehouse in 1992 and then to the us congress in 1996. >> dig mill says i can see you being governor. and i gotta be honest, i'm sure if i'm looking at it from dig males position, he's saying, man, if i can elect this guy governor, i can run the whole state elliott spitzer blazed a trail that had him in spitting distance of the white house >> right up until the moment he 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congressman rod blagojevich's what's that name again, a larger large of a child lodge of which you sure. >> positives during raj 2002 governor's campaign, dick mills, membership in the old school chicago elite was a definite bonus, but it was rods, working class bona >> fides and people skills that did all the rest coming from the family. >> did. >> he had a real working class chip? on his shoulder and his two heroes, we're elvis and richard nixon, both because they were guys who came from the wrong side of their tracks and fought their way up. and we're kind of distain by the elites. >> in fact, if those two gritty 20th century icons fought their way into a single person, you might actually end up up with rod blagojevich's for better and for worse >> rod blagojevich's that i first met was youthful. he was energetic. he had this kind of maine, a black hair that was super thick and you could tell it just filled with hair product. >> the hair so iconic and its own right that it became a comedy staple on every layer. nycha that >> that's also wearing in to pay >> huge infatuation with all this presley >> his charisma >> was disarming but. >> the elvis of illinois was itching to lose his colonel parker because despite the many benefits of dick mills patronage, rod was still in his shadow. >> you know, he really became known as dick mills, son-in-law first. and i know he hated that he didn't know how to both be his own man and not let dick nell overshadowing >> the only way for rod to survive outside of his father-in-law's machine was to create his own cash flow. so his first step was to hire two of chicago's most bare knuckle political fundraisers chris kelly, and tony rescue >> chris kelly and tony roscoe could generate big bucks. they were fundraisers, they were donors. >> you know, let's just call them what they were, there were influence peddlers they wound up being able to shake the bushes here and help rod raise money they promised access and favors if blagojevich's one and they got results, were dick mills, good old boys would fetch $2,000 at a time. kelly and rascoe would shake loose 50 grand. all that money plus rods appeal to voters who had felt ignored by the entrenched chicago political dynasties well, it proved to be an unstoppable combination >> he ran on some things that were uniquely important to black people and health care for kids is a good idea when he said free rides for seniors on public transportation, that resonated with black people specifically laguardia, which became governor in 2003. graduations governor may god bless how, do you view your time as >> governor apart from the scandals, how do i say this in a way where i don't sound like a guy without any humility. but i truly believe i was a great governor. i can't think of any governor in my life that did anything for anybody i knew they can walk around and say, you know what, thank you. governor, my daughter had health care through you, free public transportation for seniors and disabled. i did that because they raised the sales tax, which hurts working people and poor people and seniors with the legislature raising taxes that hit lower-income illinois. ian's hardest and rods striking back with policies to offset that, it's no surprise does that his populist agenda made him a lot of enemies amongst the big political families to the people in the mass as he was on our team, and to the aristocracy into the political elites. he was this guy that was taking their resources and giving him to the peasants. and so he became robin hood i knew the reality that i'm going to have resistance from the old guard, the old board bosses, the vatican's daily to some extent, my father-in-law. and so the goal was raised money now and raise a lot of it so that you can afford to make enemies. and you can afford to lose support, right? >> but some of these people that you were relying on like chris, kelly we're were crowned >> right. well, >> it turned out that chris had problems in his own personal business and he was found guilty of those things and doesn't do with me. >> but like a lot of the people in the world of fundraising or not necessarily, they are not upstanding individual there now. yeah. no, they're not >> what's the saying? ignorance is not a defense. >> tony rascoe and chris kelly started compiling this list of different entities that were stay contractors and hit all of us people up for money, probably with rods assistance hey, you've got a contract you want to keep it where you want to get more. you gotta pony up a lot of people in play have scalpel like tendencies when they fundraise and rod was probably more of a meat cleaver >> kelly and rascoe, we're using government levers to squeeze anyone they could for a campaign contribution. kickbacks like a cushy job or a fat contract. a little light extortion such as holding up teachers funds. >> they had >> deep pockets to fill and a financial so machine to do it. >> you can't trade official actions as a governor can exchange for campaign contributions are jobs. i mean, there is one simple word for that. it's called graft. >> graft is simply the use of political power and authority in exchange for personal gain. to state the obvious, appointing unqualified people to stay physicians because you want to use the government as a vending machine for your political campaign. that's completely illegal. the mo was to make money from every state petitioner possible and small town hospital ceo pam davis, looked like just another easy mark. >> in this case, the whole shakedown process is recorded by the hospital executive who is getting shaken down >> oh god, another wire i don't care the governor really wasn't on my radar at all until i experienced an extortion attempt through one of his colleagues. >> pam's hospital system wanted to build a new facility in plainfield, illinois? it seems pretty straightforward, but there were red flags right away when she went to get government approval for the project. >> in my case, the governor had appointed individuals to this board who have either contributed money to his campaign. so they bought their way on or individuals that were controlled by the governor and other individuals and would approve only those projects where a kickback was going to be given >> turns out the board was willing to approve the hospital. all she had to do was use builders and lenders who were in their pocket and pad the contract. so the board could take let's call it a transaction fee for their trouble it became clear to me that this was a major extortion attempt. and i was furious so i called the fbi >> the fed set her up with a wire so they could listen in on her meetings with board members and get the dirt straight from the source? >> she'd be meeting with these players and they would be basically laying out the whole scheme to her contract would be padded by roughly $10 million. so that that money would go then to the 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his heart on his sleeve, his anger on his sleeve he can love you today. and if you start hating you tomorrow, he can pull the switch just like that. >> and mel becomes more and more resentful of being cast aside. and so that fueled this tension in that family to the point where it eventually exploded >> that explosion came in 2005. and though it may not have aired on reality tv, it was still inextricably linked to garbage >> robin oakley, which closed down this landfill, which dick mel was a part owner of, rods said that this was for environmental issues what did he want you to do? leave it alone. and i had learned that it was operating in violation of the environmental laws. i had knowledge of that ultimately, i decided i had a duty that i had to shut it down. and then he made some accusations that really unleash the furies dick mild, paul, the press conference and basically accused raba goya, which have selling board and commission seats within state government that will set a falling out with his son-in-law, the governor. this is a family at war so your father-in-law, dick male accused chris kelly of >> selling political favors for campaign contributions of 25 to $50,000 at a time. tell me about where were you when you heard that he was leveling this accusation? >> i remember heavily it was early january of 2005, and this this is the consequences be shutting down is landfill the very next day he called a press conference that he was clever enough to accuse chris kelly, not directly mean, but that's me i don't think he envisioned that it would turn into something that would ultimately land me in prison. but i know he did this to hurt me politically and caused me problems with the fbi males allegations backed rod into a corner, giving the fbi room to prosecute his inner circle until in 2008, the fed secured a secret >> wiretap on the governor himself, feeling the squeeze ride started looking for some kind of escape route and then a golden opportunity landed right in his lap >> at this defining moment change has come to america >> now that senator barack obama is president elect barack obama, someone will have to take over and let's see, this is the governor's decision it is not my decision. the criteria that i would have for my successor would be the same criteria that i'd have if i were a motive senator obama becomes president obama. he resigns his senate seat. according to the law here in illinois, you as the governor get to name his replacement. now, you're excited about this and you say on tape, i'd like to get the gat of here and you're talking about options for yourself is that i mean, i'd like to get gotta here you are sick of being governor >> that's absolutely the things i was saying, of course, and i was looking at all kinds of options. >> so he attempted to trade obama's seat for a golden parachute he begins to be heavily courted by all sorts of people who would love to be that us senator. >> they saw something really valuable here at a very valuable bargaining chip that could elevate his power in some way or benefit them monetarily when i said i wanted to get the fit here is because those fbi people and my prosecutors will all over me and it's the sort >> of thing when that stuff's thrown around you, you know, that stuff swirling around you, right? and it's there, it's everywhere and it was just very clear to me that they were determined to get me no matter what. >> i guess one question i have is knowing that they were looking at you. why did you talk about this stuff that way >> look, i had 2896 days in prison to ask myself 1,000 questions, including that. but you know what's the alternative? i have all my staff and lawyers. we all go to saunas and get naked and talk to each other son. got wires on them? >> no, it's the organ or you just don't say anything where you just say like this seat is very important and we want to make sure the best person gets it and separately, i am thinking that i'd like to not 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and race track in an attempt to get political contributions and the attempted extortion of a highway contractor >> i personally think he should at least step aside if not resign. >> my husband is an honest man and i know that he's innocent. >> he thought that he had the moral high ground. >> do you think the cloud that hangs on? over but attain your >> i don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over getting back to that. i think there's none of its sunshine hanging over me. he >> didn't show any of the humility or anything, you just can't stick your finger in the eye of the federal government. >> let me reassert to all of you once more. but i am not guilty of [reporters speaking at once] i represented rod blagojevich in two of his criminal trials. i mean, he wanted to fight his case. he believed he was innocent, and he was working to that end to try and prove his innocence. anyone who believes that this was a selling of some senate seat doesn't understand politics. every single day in politics, that is what happens, is this horse-trading. and if you really listen to this in context, what you heard was talking with various people, getting annoyed, talking about nonsense, and then the end. nothing really that was ever acted on. later, rod blagojevich's lawyers would argue that what rod did specifically with the senate seat was no worse than when president eisenhower appointed earl warren as chief justice of the supreme court. back in 1952, dwight eisenhower's about to win the nomination to become the republican president. earl warren, the governor of california, is withholding the delegation's votes. governor warren tells eisenhower, "i'll deliver the delegation for you on one condition. i wanna be the next chief justice of the supreme court." ike, the great war hero, shakes hands, says, "you got a deal." he wins. one year later, earl warren is the chief justice of the united states supreme court. rod wanted a political appointment from obama, and for that, he was prepared to trade obama's old senate seat, which is actually legal. otherwise, eisenhower would have gone to jail, and americans would not have "liked ike." do you see yourself as somebody who was just trying to function in perhaps an inherently corrupt but legal system, and that theoretically almost any politician could be snagged the way you were? absolutely. of course i do, except i'm giving me higher marks. because i was using that money that--that-- and that power gave me to fight an established system that served itself on the backs of the people, and when you do that, you piss a lot of people off, and they wanna get rid of you. but do you think that you're earthier about it? like, more outspoken about it? well, i wasn't hiding any of it, but these--because it's legal, and that's how you govern. abraham lincoln was able to get the 13th amendment passed at congress, which ratified the emancipation proclamation, freeing slaves. he had to make political deals with members of congress to get the votes to pass it. -that's how you get things done. -you're not comparing yourself to abraham lincoln. -by no means. -okay. -and please say that. i'm not comparing myself to abraham lincoln. you're not-- or the emancipation proclamation. okay, right. he's a lot taller than me, and i never did anything as great as that, of course not. -but you're also not talking about the--i mean, the emancipation proclamation-- of course i'm not. governor blagojevich tried to sell the appointment to the senate seat vacated by president-elect obama. the conduct would make lincoln roll over in his grave. you're very critical of pat fitzgerald. yeah, he's an evil guy. he's a wicked guy. he's a scoundrel, and he deserves to get an ass kicking. you know? and he's a big coward. anyway, go ahead. sorry. well, i think he would take issue with everything you just said. you know, he has a reputation for being the choirboy, for being, you know, an upstanding, moral person. he sees himself as, "i am trying to uphold some basic standards for our politicians." that's how he views it. governor blagojevich has been arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree. we had a political and public narrative that we had to overcome, and when the entire potential jury pool believes that your client is guilty before they've even heard the evidence, you're going into the trial like if it's a basketball game, you're losing 100 to nothing. or it's like if you're a governor, and you're getting impeached 114 to 1, and the lone vote in rod's favor-- his sister-in-law, deb mell. done from office and eager to prove he was not a crook, rod knew exactly where to plead his case. please welcome to the program governor rod blagojevich! [applause] you are a charming dude with the best set of hair i've ever [bleep] seen. [audience laughter] so i want this to be real. got some challenges ahead, but, uh, i'm gonna trust in the truth and as it says in the bible, "the truth shall set you free." rod blagojevich just...kept...talking. how are you? you wanna get on tv? come on in. i think he was able to warm himself a little bit with the public. better to be seen as a klutz than a crook. sure, everyone loves a good laugh, but oversaturating the talk show circuit may have had unintended consequences, as david letterman told rod when he appeared on the "late show" in 2009. the more you talked and the more you repeated your innocence, the more i said to myself, "oh, this guy's guilty." [laughter] so during the period from your impeachment to your trial and your sentencing, you did a lot of media appearances. what was the strategy behind that? my feeling was like, "look, i didn't do any of that stuff," and what does somebody do who's being lied about? but you have a tremendous desire to get out at the highest mountain and yell out, "i didn't do it." well, letterman said that the louder you yelled it, the more it made him think you were guilty. yeah. yeah, i mean, i didn't-- i didn't convince him, but, uh, i think i convinced donald trump. that's why i got invited on "celebrity apprentice," right? i have great respect for your tenacity, for the fact that you just don't give up. but, rod...you're fired. ♪ what i saw over the course of rod's career was a guy who started off as kind of a charming rogue and a guy who really did give voice to concerns that people had to someone who became almost a parody of himself. and by the time that trial came around, he really was his own worst enemy. see you in court. he thought that the court of public opinion could save him, but he had disturbed forces that decided, "it was a wrap for you, dude." don't poke the feds, fam. just don't do it. man: blago, can i get your autograph? reporter: at verdict today, in a notorious case that federal prosecutors did not want to hear, rod blagojevich was convicted today on only one count. -see you guys! -man: way to go, baby! tapper: the jury was hung on all but one of the charges against blagojevich, and without unanimous consent, the result was a mistrial on the remaining 23 charges. the jury, like a lot of people to this day, just could not agree on whether what he'd done was actually illegal. in that first trial, the jury deadlocked on everything except for lying to the fbi. -right. you were convicted of lying to the fbi. -right. -do you acknowledge that you lied to the fbi? -no. no. i don't. i'll tell you about that. it was about how much of your associates that were fund-raising for you, the degree to which you knew what you were doing. yeah, it was-- the issue was i said, i didn't, as a practice, track fund-raising. and who got contracts? i didn't. i didn't look into who got contracts. i wasn't interested in that. i had 27,000 contributors. i wasn't tracking who gave me money, who got what. the first trial was too confusing for the jury, and they had a lot of paper documents. it was a lot of witness testimony. man: governor, are you anxious for this to begin? i feel great. absolutely. what the government did in the second trial is they pared down their--their case, and they believed that everything was in the tapes and they needed to make this trial a lot simpler. [blagojevich speaking] he was swearing a lot... ...and upset and not appreciative of the position that he had. and i think that was more influential in the jury's decision than-- than anything. it made him look bad. breaking news right now-- the jury has reached a decision, convicting blagojevich on 17 counts of corruption. -reporter: wire fraud. -bribery. blitzer: attempted extortion. solicitation of a bribe. blitzer: racketeering. conspiracy to commit bribery and conspiracy to commit extortion. rod blagojevich was convicted on almost all counts and sentenced to 14 years. patti and i are obviously very disappointed, uh, in the outcome. i, frankly, am--am stunned. when did you realize, "oh, shit, i might actually be going to prison"? -from the beginning. -really? -i knew i was a dead man. -really? -yeah. -why? 'cause they have so much power and resources, and i, you know, wasn't really surprised when i got 14 years. the justification for the judge was, "you treated this like a golden glove boxing match," but those corrupt liars are lucky dueling is outlawed, 'cause i'd have challenged them to a duel. rapists and murderers get so much less time? that's why this system is so wrong and so broken. let me offer you an alternate theory. sure. my alternate theory is that the entire system of justice that we have in this country depends on prosecutors and police who are incentivized to get convictions. -mm-hmm. -period. what do you think of that? well, i think you're almost right. [laughs] i never took a penny. no one says i did. i keep saying that 'cause that's so important to me. i don't want people to think that i was some-- one of these corrupt politicians that was taking cash. tapper: but remember, even though he never actually got that envelope full of money, that was because the feds closed in before the senate deal was done. the offers being considered, campaign contributions or a lucrative job in a nonprofit, the fact of accepting them-- that would have been simply illegal, hence, the charge of conspiracy to commit bribery, which he was definitely guilty of. rod's argument is no cash changed hands, but prior to that, there had been plenty of money changing hands. there's ample evidence these government positions, these government contracts-- they were effectively for sale. it does not matter if rod blagojevich actually won the argument and got the money or the donations he was seeking. it's the ask. if something goofs it up, but the burglary or robbery's interrupted, it doesn't make it less of an intended burglary or robbery, right? he had his day in court. that 14 years was what the system gave him. so you went to prison for almost eight years? 2,896 days. and let me tell ya what gets you through prison when you have to face something like that. it's love and it's faith-- love for my daughters and my wife. you know, when i was arrested, within days, the vegas oddsmakers had it 9 to 1 that she was leaving. so in that sense, i've been so lucky and blessed. after he was sent to prison, patti proclaimed his innocence, and she did try and go to any leader that she could find to have him either pardoned or commuted. and when all else failed, patti blagojevich knew exactly who to appeal to next. this election is about who shares your values. let me share mine. i'm the only candidate with a record of taking on maga republicans, and winning. when they overturned roe, i secured abortion rights in our state constitution. when trump attacked our lgbtq and asian neighbors, i strengthened our hate crime laws. i fought for all of us struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living. i'm evan low, and i approve this message for all of our shared values. democrats agree. conservative republican steve garvey is the wrong choice for the senate. ...our republican opponent here on this stage has voted for donald trump twice. mr. garvey, you voted for him twice... as your own man, what is your decision? garvey is wrong for california. but garvey's surging in the polls. fox news says garvey would be a boost to republican control of the senate. stop garvey. adam schiff for senate. i'm adam schiff, and i approve this message. after rod goes to prison, patti was essential in keeping their life together. more than anything else, maybe, she got in donald trump's ear. trump had a connection with blagojevich 'cause rod was on "the apprentice," and patti blagojevich was on fox news every day. you know, we know that president trump is a kind man, and he's compassionate. he's always been kind to my family. and when you speak on fox news, you have a direct connection with donald trump. today the president sprung from prison former illinois governor rod blagojevich, who was convicted after attempting his own quid pro quo. yes, uh, we have commuted the sentence of rod. i watched his wife on television. quote, um, "i watched his wife on television..." -yes. -end quote. how did--how did that happen? i think he just saw--he-- he would tell me he liked the fact that i was fighting back. i remember him saying something like, uh, "you know, i have friends that go through what you're going through, and they're in a corner. they can't even move, and you're out there throwing punches." i think he liked that. i'm so grateful to him. sometimes things happen in life where god intervenes in the most unbelievable ways. trump, blagojevich, fox news? i'm not sure how much god played a role in any of this. when rod came home from prison after eight years, his daughters had grown up. how are your relationships with them? they're good. i'm-- i'm getting to know them. our family was broken for a long time. the difficulties that i talked about with my father-in-law, those were heartbreaking, because in spite of everything, i love him, and he's been good to me in so many ways. and, uh, you know, it's been a tough road for my wife. our lives could have been so much simpler, so much better. understandably, rod looks back on the time away from his family with regret, not for what he did, of course, but that he was sent to prison in the first place. but what else would you expect from rod? i am a political prisoner. i was put in prison for practicing politics. wait a minute. you're a political prisoner? nelson mandela was a political prisoner. political prisoners have no due process. i was thrown in prison and spent nearly eight years in prison for practicing politics, for seeking campaign contributions without a quid pro quo. you do have an obligation to at least admit what you did wrong, and you refuse to do that, and you're creating a whole new alternate universe of facts, and that may be big in politics today, but it's still, frankly, just bullshit. a reporter, uh, asked you if you wanted to say sorry to the people of illinois, and you said, "sorry for what?" -do you still feel that way? -very much so. i've done a lot wrong. criminal? none. you and your defenders argue that the persecution, prosecution of you is about the criminalization of politics. in other words, there is horse-trading that goes on in politics. "you do me this favor. i'll do you this favor," and that's all you were doing, and that it's legal, but they made it out to be illegal. well, first of all, it's not illegal. now you can argue whether we should improve our laws. that's a valid thing. i would think there's a lot of room to improve the fund-raising laws, but that's not illegal at all, and it's a common practice. now ultimately, after i've been in prison for four years, the appellate court reverses that big lie of the sale of the senate seat, and they said it's routine political logrolling. and look, that's partially true. the court did vacate the conviction related to obama's senate seat, but they never said he did nothing wrong. the court said there was a jury instruction issue, and they upheld the remaining 13 counts. so contrary to his claim, he has not been exonerated. and for the love of elvis, we can only hope that rod's crimes are not routine. if there is a big lie, it's that he's a victim, especially since every other charge was upheld, including the extortion of a children's hospital. gandhi, he ain't. this isn't some sort of mystery, that, "gosh, i didn't know. i had no idea. it's so gray." really? i think most of us have some gut sense of when we're beginning to get in trouble. i don't believe blagojevich has ever done any reflection on right and wrong. extorting a hospital-- never occurred to him that that might harm the citizens that he was elected to protect. he--he has no ability to look at anything but himself. that's it. that's it. what's the worst thing that can be said about you that's accurate in your view, other than you were stupid to say that stuff? sure. look, i've been accused of being a narcissist. i might plead to a misdemeanor on that, okay? um, i think i-- my judgment of some people was way off. i think i should have been a lot more vigilant and see some of the warning signs. i knew they were aggressively out there raising money, and i didn't slow it down because i wanted to raise the campaign money. i could have been more vigilant on that in retrospect. ♪ close, but no cigar. whether or not rod trusted the wrong people, he set them loose on illinois because they brought him the most money. whether the rules on political fund-raising are flimsy guardrails at best, you can still drive between the lines. >> whether the rules on political fundraising or flimsy guardrails at best, you can still drive between the lines. it's arrives tail is a cautionary wanna camera grabbing over the top example of how bribery, extortion and graft easily sneak into our political system behind ambition and enormous egos live if politicians or the public feel the same way he does, then another rod blagojevich is just around the corner. >> i didn't break a law class lander. take a penny. okay. but i never said i wasn't eddy. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you very much >> awesome

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