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Believe judges are fair and impartial. they hope to take any inappropriate taint of financial influence out of the process. in washington, shannon bream, fox news. bret: arizona governor jan brewer tonight will ask a federal appeals court to lift injunction on the state s immigration law. brewer s brief will argue a lower court judge abused her discretion granting president obama s request to keep part of the law taking effect. the judge in the trial of former illinois governor rod blagojevich said the earliest retrial date would be first of january. federal prosecutors decided not to retry his brother robert blagojevich. all charge against him have been dropped. former baseball great roger clemens will be arraigned monday in washington on charges of lying to congress. at issue is clemens contention in testimony of 2008 he never used ....
Believe judges are fair and impartial. they hope to take any inappropriate taint of financial influence out of the process. in washington, shannon bream, fox news. bret: arizona governor jan brewer tonight will ask a federal appeals court to lift injunction on the state s immigration law. brewer s brief will argue a lower court judge abused her discretion granting president obama s request to keep part of the law taking effect. the judge in the trial of former illinois governor rod blagojevich said the earliest retrial date would be first of january. federal prosecutors decided not to retry his brother robert blagojevich. all charge against him have been dropped. former baseball great roger clemens will be arraigned monday in washington on charges of lying to congress. at issue is clemens contention in testimony of 2008 he never used ....
After day, and not reaching a decision, it was sort of like in chicago, hey, what in the world is going on? now they come back, only convicting him on one count, and hung on 23. it also begs, you know, look, the fbi is going to be in for some tough questioning as well, because remember, they arrested rod blagojevich, and it was stated before a deal actually commenced. they felt that something was about to happen, and as it related to the u.s. senate seat, a former senator barack obama, and in terms of blagojevich making the deal, and don t be surprised if they don t send him to prison on this one count, they will say, wait a minute, did you move too early before something happened, because they have tapes and if they couldn t convict him with the tapes, what does that mean? and mary matalin is with us as well. mary, we are getting a statement from congressman jesse jackson, jr., and he says this reacting to the verdict. ....
That one count while awaiting a new trial. is that right? that s up to the judge. the judge could go ahead and sentence him on one count he s been convicted of and he could go to prison pending the outcome of the pending the second trial coming around. that s up to the judge. his defense attorneys will argue he should be out on bail and is not a flight risk and he s not going to leave. he s present during the trial. highly recognizable. shown no sign he would be a flight risk. that will be up to the judge to decide. david gergen, is there an issue as far as the u.s. government, the federal government is concerned, when they go forward with another trial right now that this is going cost the u.s. taxpayers a lot of money and another trial against blagojevich and they had a chance and didn t succeed on 23 of the 24 counts, is that at all a political factor in a u.s. attorney s decision making process? it is a factor but a modest one. i would think far more and others can speak to ....
like what? with certain witnesses we might put on that we didn t this time. and you indicated that you were surprised before that you didn t hear from example jesse jackson, jr., and you said had he been put on, there there were people that you would have put on in response. correct, correct. do you hold congressman jackson well, i have to discuss that with the governor s team. and i don t want to make any decisions today. we have to discuss it, around certainly an option. but [ inaudible ]. you know what, that is not my place to comment on it. michael, legally, to what extent are rob blagojevich, his interests, and robert blagojevich s interests legally? do you know understand what i mean? no. in other words, we are waiting to hear what they are going to do before you call a witness that might be beneficial to your client? ....