viewers from around the country and are joining us through doubly aegean americato the aegean america wgn america >>rod blagojevich apologized before the judge to the people of the state of illinois to his family to the judge to the jury he said he had no one to blame but himself for his own stupidity. he asked the judge for mercy. >>we realize that while the former governor made every effort to try and ask for compassion from the judge thinking that at some point there may be the possibility of an appeal ... he has walked a fine line with his back against the wall trying to do one thing with the intent of another. >>what he did was to apologize for lots of things but never accepting responsibility for committing crimes are breaking the law so without that admission it's tough to see this judge giving any form of leniency to the governor we are preparing for a very harsh sentencing here. >>rick pearson one of the things we wanted to ask you was about that atmosphere in springfield during the rod blagojevich time in office did it grind to a halt? >>there was a complete lack of trust in the governo

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