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Spousal abuse and hosting champagne and cocaine parties. what i think is real interesting here and what one is beginning to see is youre demolishing the claims that blagojevich that there was this firewall between politics and government. thats what he told the fbi which is why hes certainly going to be in trouble, at least when it comes to possible perjury charges, but youre right in analogizing to tony soprano and the real life tough guys because as one also has gone on so far, one sees these ...

Welcome back to "hardball." actually the trial of former illinois governor rod blagojevich is under way in chicago. witnesses are taking the stand, and the prosecutors have a money tavern evidence, apparently, featuring some audio tapes of blago himself. lynn sweet is a columnist for dailypolitics.com and jim warren is a columnist for the chicago news cooperative. lets listen right now. heres some of the audio tape played at trial. this is a conversation between the governor and his brother robe...

Whats the number going to be next week? is it going to be 100 gallons? mean, who knows? lets sit around and watch, i guess, but weve got to stop that leak now! >> okay. youve explained a lot to me, sir. thank you, larry johnson, downs in pensacola. well have you back on again. coming up, federal prosecutors are laying out their case against ex-illinois governor rod blagojevich, and they have released a batch of audio tapes of catching blago in action. weve got the tapes and will show them to y...