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President today. whats, i guess, the deliverable for this vice president? what does she need to get and what is she to achieve today? >> reporter: yeah, you know, christine, what we heard from the vice presidents office is that this is officially being called a fact-finding mission about the root causes of migration which is just a fancy way of saying the administration is trying to figure out how to get less migrants arriving at the u.s. southern border. that mission started yesterday in guatem...

Start talking about millions of dollars, okay, in corruption, for an exchange of a position and your abuse of a position of trust you may not make a penny but you will get punished like you took the $1.5 million and put knit your back pocket. >>trace: it begins in february on the 16th. thank you, both, gentleman. >>trace: fox is americas election headquarters and most of the g.o.p. candidates for the white house taking terms attacking president obama over his policies on israel. the contenders s...

On 18 counts of corruption including trying to sell off president obamas old senate seat. blago will likely end up at a minimal security prison and may have to share a cell with other inmates and work in eight-hour day doing menial job possibly scrubbing toilets at 12 cents an hour. and now, like outside the courthouse, did blagojevich help himself by owning up to the crimes after all these years? >>reporter: because of that rather extensive apology the judge did knock three years off of that se...

The same old blagojevich as he left the federal building, animated once again because he worked the crowd in front of the building like a candidate working the rope line and he spoke to reporters vowing, once again, that he will fight. >> i have to be strong. this is a time to fight through adversity, the time for me to be strong for my children. strange for patty; this is also a time for patty and me to get home to explain to our kids, our babies, what happened, what all this means and where we...

Unfortunately, that is held against you if you later convicted by testifying and giving interviews, it is tantamount to obstruction. when it is time to be sentenced. when you are a person held in public trust like a political store or in this case, the governor, that is held against you for purposes of sentencing. and when the intended amount of money, and this is important, was $1.5 million, i understand the tones attorneys and i woulde done the same, the federal system does not account for it....

Guide leans was 30-plus and the prosecution asked for 15- to 20. he did everything wrong. chronic corruption. completely hopeless for any kind of ethics. and then he goes on a tv tour proclaiming innocence, and gets on the stand for seven days, the jury obviously found he lied, and now he tries to show up in court and express remorse. i think as tough a sentence as it is, it could have been worse for rod blagojevich. >>trace: i look back at all the corruption cases and there are a lot in chicago...