squarely on what senator obama's el have aition to the presidency would mean for him, governor rod blagojevichvernor blagojevich is now serving time if federal prison. he is serving a 14-year corruption sentence. he did have the power to provide a replacement for the newly vacant senate seat. he solicited bribes. he tried to get his prince time reduced. the governor quote still hasn't admitted the crimes that he committed and it's true. to this day. governor blagojevich and his lawyers insisting he did nothing wrong, they say he did political deal making. it wasn't a crime, any politician faced with the prospect of filling a senate seat would naturally start looking around for political stuff to trade it for that was not necessarily an unreasonably argument. he could disagree with it. there was a real serious argument to be made the government was seriously and soberly carrying out the normal uncraven duties of a serving dpofr when he was considering how to fill that senate seat. in theory, he had that case to maim i make. until you we heard the tape . >> illinois governor rod blagojevich. the

i can always use it and [ bleep ]. >> rod bleep blagojevich.president obama won the election. he was caught on an fbi wiretap talking about how that seat was bleeping golden and he's not giving it up for bleeping nothing. when that recording was played in court, it quickly became clear he was going to go to jail and he's in jail. that was 2008. today early this morning the serving president said this on twitter. he said, quote, james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. the president said he had three different conversations with the director before he fired him, conversations from which the fbi director told him he's not under investigation by the fbi. people close to the fbi director say those conversations never happened. they say what happened at white house dinner between president trump and fbi director james comey is that president trump demanded a loyalty oath from the fbi director, which the fbi director declined to give. now, the president this morning suggested via that