this is a privilege to speak with you today and an honor. a quick look back on why i wrote fundraiser a. my wife is not here, and she is still spooked on what happened to us and decided to stay home. she encouraged me to write a memoior so anyone who wanted to know what happened would have something to read. i was doing research for a few in institutions and every time i went to speak at any of these places i was asked if i was going to write a book and that was encouraging. and finally, my attorney told me immediately after the trial, rob you need to write a book about your experience. it it a very rare thing to survive a federal prosecution where 95-96 percent of the time a defendant is either found guilty or pleads guilty. you have a perspective, have been through the process, and it might be a perspective from the courtroom people might be curious to learn about. with mike s encouragement and julie s and others here i am telling you about a book i started writing in au
goliath. it is a david and goliath battle that identify been fortunate enough now to be out on the other side and talk a little bit about. that was the reality i stepped into on december 9 2008, when at 6:21 in the morning the doorbell would not stop ringing where i was staying. i was fund raising for my brother. i d committed to doing it at least for four months. the doorbell continued to ring. i thought it was just someone playing pranks. got dressed very quickly, went downstairs and saw two men flashing fbi badges and subpoenas requesting entrance many to friends of blagojevich. you can imagine that was a shocking occurrence for me, and it forever changed my life and took me in a direction i never expected. later that morning the then-u.s. attorney patrick fitzgerald in a press conference announcing that my brother had been arrested said that lincoln would roll over in his grave if he knew that rod was attempting to sell barack obama s senate seat to highest bidder. as i w
today. a call for jug justice where two 17-year-old boys were charged with assaulting two girls. a special prosecutor has been called in to reopen the investigation. australia s bush fires are burning around the country they are expecting to flare wednesday. more than 200 homes have been destroyed in new south wales in the capital of sydney where the government has declared a state of emergency. that is the news a the this hour. i will see you back here at 11:00 eastern and 8:00 pacific time. on se america tonight bleud lines on campus. student on student sexual assault and a new approach to stop it. holding university responsible. we put more emphasis on preventing plagiarism than preventing rape. fire on the sky. new reports challenge washington s strategy against terror targets. more resighmore precise or moree that u.s. is commitmen committir crimes. i have a stepson and grandson and i lost a cousin through violence. good evening and thanks for being with
reports about nsa spying on the french are inaccurate. relations have been strained since a newspaper article in lamond claimed the spy agency monitored 70 million private conversations of french citizens. recent articles contained inaccurate misleading information regarding u.s. foreign intelligence. clapper added u.s. intelligence methods were used by all nations. those are the headlines. america tonight it up next and remember, you can get the latest news on aljazeera.com. see you tomorrow night. good evening and thanks for being with us. i m joi e chan. sex crimes. and the response of victims to those assaults lead us tonight. first we turn to maryville missouri. they found themselves bracing for a major protest by the . the charges were dropped by the accused high school boys. but the girls felt they were bullied for reporting what happened. a newspaper investigation forced new attention on the case and the appointment of a special prosecutor. but the sheriff has a
near sydney. thousands have been urged to evacuate. gasoline prices to fall to their lowest rate, why analysts say falling crude prices could drom to $3.17, the lowest since the 2010 holiday season. the irs says it needs more time to updates its computer systems, and the returns will still be due on april 15th. you can get the latest news on aljazeera.com. on se america tonight bleud lines on campus. student on student sexual assault and a new approach to stop it. holding university responsible. we put more emphasis on preventing plagiarism than preventing rape. fire on the sky. new reports challenge washington s strategy against terror targets. more resigh more precise or more evidence that u.s. is commitment committing war crimes. i have a stepson and grandson and i lost a cousin through violence. good evening and thanks for being with us. i m joi e chan. sex crimes. and the response of victims to those assaults lead us tonight. first we turn to maryville