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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100817:22:04:00

Or want to know who contributes to him or want to know who contributes to him. guilty on that count, and no decision and hung jury on 23 other counts, including charges, serious charges, racketeering, wire fraud, attempted extortion, bribery, attempted extortion and conspiracy and all of the other charges that the jurors could not reach a decision on. let s bring in our political analysts roland martin and mary matalin. and roland, how surprised were you by this since you live in chicago and you have been watching this trial very closely? well, it has been startling because this trial has gone on for only about 30 i days. typically, if you look at the trial of former governor george ryan who was convicted of taking money from one of his campaign donors and that trial went on for months, so this thing was on speed dial, if you will. then all of the sudden, when we saw the jury, you know, day ....

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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. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100817:21:23:00

Patrick fitzgeralfitzgerald, th attorney in chicago, would have another trial if there s no verdict on most of these counts? i do. i think he s devoted to this case and believes in this case and he has from the very beginning. as jeffrey says, it will depend on what the outcome is. if for example he gets acquitted on a couple of charges and its it s a mistrial to the rest, then he ll have some evaluated to go. if he can find out what the juror split on counts that there may be a mistrial on, that will also be instructed. 11-1 for acquittal he may make a decision to not go forward. i think patrick fitzgerald is committed to this case. we ll ask lisa bloom, jeffrey toobin ato stand by. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100817:21:39:00

Around chicago. he hasn t cared about his reputation. he was thrown out of office by the general assembly in illinois. he s gone on a reality show. he s hosted a radio show on a station there in chicago. he tried to be on a second reality show. he doesn t care. he will treat this like a victory. i m sure his attorneys will. they might say, rod, tamper down a bit because they might try you again. on that point hold on a second. we re now getting word from our producer on the scene in the courtroom in chicago. the government just announced they will retry rod blagojevich on at least some if not all of the other counts, counts where the jury could not reach a decision so patrick fitzgerald, the u.s. attorney in chicago, is going forward making it clear he wants another trial. think about it. sam adam jr., one of his ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100817:22:02:00

It may be only a temporary victory. if he gets convicted at the end of the day of racketeering, of extortion, he could still be going to prison for a very long time and in a world, especially in federal court where the government wins convictions in the vast, vast majority of cases, to have a case where 23 of the 24 counts do not result in a conviction, i think that the only fair analysis of that is that this is a victory for rod blagojevich. it must be, david gergen, a huge disappointment for patrick fitzgerald, the district attorney in chicago and the prosecutors. that i worked really hard on all of these other charge, and they were unable to convince the jurors to issue a guilty verdict. i am sure it is a big disappointment they didn t get that far and they must be curious about what happened to ....

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