Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich has been saying for months that he was waiting for the oppo — Transcript

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1. 0:01former Illinois governor R Lovich
2. 0:03decided to keep his mouth shut to the
3. 0:05jury Lovich has promised for months that
4. 0:08he would take the stand in his own
5. 0:09defense and so did his lawyer Sam Adam
6. 0:12Jr did I get up in my opening statement
7. 0:14and tell them he was going to testify
8. 0:16yes I did did I believe at the time that
9. 0:17I said that that he was going to testify
10. 0:19yes I did have times changed they
11. 0:22certainly have the defense team believes
12. 0:25the prosecution failed to come through
13. 0:27with several key Witnesses against the
14. 0:28former Governor causing them to change
15. 0:31their defense before this trial began
16. 0:33the bovich defense team tried to
17. 0:35subpoena President Obama to come here
18. 0:37and testify now they've decided that no
19. 0:40one will testify in the defense of the
20. 0:41former Illinois governor because they
21. 0:43believe the prosecution hasn't proved a
22. 0:46thing we think by putting him up there
23. 0:48to answer anything makes it seem as if
24. 0:50the government was right that he'd had
25. 0:53something to answer uh in the tapes that
26. 0:55the government played uh they proved as
27. 0:58I said all along that I did nothing
28. 0:59illegal
29. 1:00in fact they proved that I I sought the
30. 1:02advice of my lawyers uh and my advisers
31. 1:05they proved that I was on the phone
32. 1:07talking to them brainstorming about
33. 1:09ideas uh yes they proved some of the
34. 1:11ideas were stupid uh but they also
35. 1:13proved some of the ideas were good the
36. 1:15idea not to do anything could backfire
37. 1:18jurors are left to think about why a
38. 1:20defendant who talks to everyone won't
39. 1:22take the stand I've learned a lot of
40. 1:24lessons from this whole experience and
41. 1:26perhaps maybe the biggest lesson I've
42. 1:28learned is that that I talk too much now
43. 1:31in closing arguments the prosecution
44. 1:33must convince the jury that bich did
45. 1:35commit a crime without cross-examining
46. 1:38him and the defense team must prove that
47. 1:40the prosecution hasn't proved anything
48. 1:43Mark Carlson the Associated Press
49. 1:46Chicago