Rod Blagojevich Press Conference — Transcript
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- 0:03with words
- 0:04that he was
- 0:05very admitted he has done nothing wrong he did a press conference ratio to your
- 0:10question if you real quick year the whole time
- 0:13think about
- 0:14what he's going to say when he actually pleads guilty
- 0:17because it's so much evidence on a key absolutely well and if you're not seeing
- 0:20that he had his picture man with the correct crown on his head
- 0:24and we've got a good visual insensitive rival gardner
- 0:29treasury much obviously you right after that
- 0:32said i did not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing
- 0:35thanks and stay on the job that i will fight this thing every
- 0:39of the way
- 0:41i will fight
- 0:42i will fight
- 0:43i will fight
- 0:45until i think my last breath
- 0:47i have done
- 0:48nothing wrong
- 0:52cells go into the red
- 0:54but i'm not going to quit a job to people hired me to do
- 0:58because of false accusations and political issue on
- 1:01now that's what i'm going to do
- 1:03let me tell you i'm not going to do yet i have not gone into what might have
- 1:07seen a series of political enemies have been doing
- 1:10and that is
- 1:12talk about this case in thirty second sound bytes on meet the press promised
- 1:16he'd e-news
- 1:17com dining answer these charges and i a m dying
- 1:21to show you how this and i a m but i figured out what i was sure everyone
- 1:25who's here
- 1:26everyone who's listening
- 1:28but i intend to answer every allegation
- 1:31uh... that comes my way
- 1:34however
- 1:35hi intend to answer them
- 1:37in the appropriate forum
- 1:39in a court of law
- 1:40and when i do high-end absolutely certain
- 1:44that i will be vindicated
- 1:48rudyard kipling wrote
- 1:49if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs someone who has
- 1:53sold more if you can trust yourself when almond out here
- 1:57and make allowance for their doubting too
- 2:00if you can wait
- 2:01and not be tired by waiting
- 2:03or being lied about
- 2:05don't realize
- 2:06or being hated
- 2:08don't give way to haiti
- 2:10now i know there are some powerful forces arrayed against me
- 2:14it's kind of lonely right now
- 2:16but i have on my side when we were powerful allied there is
- 2:21major tripoli
- 2:23and the size
- 2:24i have a personal knowledge
- 2:26that i have not done anything
- 2:29to the people of illinois high aspect a weight
- 2:32and be patient
- 2:34sit back and take a deep breath
- 2:36and please reserve judgment afford me
- 2:39the same rights that you and your children have
- 2:43the presumption of innocence
- 2:45off the road to defend yourself i've heard arrives here day in court
- 2:50pretty normal parent extensive children the presumption of innocence who
- 2:53probably one of her daughter's he got the perfect
- 2:56that uh... he's for classic politician you know i a m salt camera and tell you
- 3:03they know how much your children
- 3:04you should like to make your children right in a nice little analogy that is
- 3:07gary graham is like
- 3:09even did a poll did you did apartment but they will put this covers rocky i
- 3:13know you wouldn't want you to what i'll be all about it i couldn't stop issuing
- 3:17his hair meeting with donald trump scare i'd just couldn't get that image out of
- 3:21my mind so it will in the whole thing for me
- 3:23but he's a contrarian thought about lighter bulgaria
- 3:26visit com
- 3:27they had the roots the anything on those tapes
- 3:30that ninety percent of american politicians in this position haven't set
- 3:33a hundred times
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