worth gaming with the but democrat who was a big time chicago aldermen who converted to republican partin the '80s? and i am wondering, this is a larger question, how much of his political philosophy is what truly animates him it is videologic all? >> guest: th is hard to figure out pricing his public political philosophys populism. he is concerned for the little guy his anti-tax comes from the in a gntor values of his father that theseere lo out for the little guy. his father worked in the steel mill and in the alaskan pipeline. his parents sacrificed everything to be successful and you could see that in some of rod blagojevich politics. but when you look at his persal life and ethics, there is not a lot of indication that those values of hard work, honesty, and performan translated into the personal life. >> one of my strong impressions is he was my state representitive and mike congressmen on the northwest side. one of the early boats that he took is the amendment to ban desecration of the american flag. i thought that was a foolish idea a republicaidea be he voted for that amendment a

on the oth hand he had some rea partin rhetoric sort of ried within the speech that wasn't going to waste time th people trying to kill his bill. d i think that was effecte in rallying his base whi is the most impoant thing he's got to doight now to get this thing through. >> rose: when yolack at what he' doing, aln, where ishe risk? >> well, ihink the risk is particularlyhis weekend, all of these unscripted performances, you ow. the interviewituation is somethg that he handles pretty well. but you can rember that when he wentn the jay leno ow back in march he made at little crack about the special ympics that got him into a lot of trouble. so although i think the sunday morning washington shows are going to be fairly predictable in the q & a i think this letterman thing on the other hand could be kind of teresting just to see hohe meuvers through what is a much more risky situation. >> i couldt agree more. much more,s it i easy to predict the kind of questions on the sunday shows it is much less easy to look at what david might do. may i slitly dagree. >> absolutely. >> only in the sense

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