Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Friday that if what he's done as Illinois governor is an impeachable offense, he's living on the "wrong planet" and is in the "wrong place."
Speaking to a WLS-TV reporter outside a Chicago law office, the governor said he was hired to fight for the people of Illinois and that's what he's been doing.
The interview marked the first time Blagojevich has spoken to the media since giving a defiant three-minute speech last Friday in which he said he'll fight the forces against him until he takes his last breath.
"Look, if I'd have known people were listening, I probably wouldn't have said some of the things you say in private conversations," Blagojevich said Friday.
"But I think there's probably tens of millions of people across America who talk like that from time to time."
Blagojevich has ignored ongoing calls to step down. He spoke Friday as the committee of legislators investigating whether he should be impeached prepared to reconvene in Springfield on Monday. The group's chair, state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, said members were "still doing due diligence."
Source: AP News
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Now that's a smart move but likely wont work. It's the tapes that did him in. G-Rod will say he was only joking and wasn't serious. The people on the end of the phone had no idea what G-Rod was up to. Now after watching Madoff and Toussie the pay to play is universal in politics. Bust has to give that pardon to Toussie or give him back his 40,000 dollars. If G-Rod holds out he can say he was doing what everyone does in Politics.
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