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Wrote a letter to the judge after he got convicted and said the government is trying to get me to say bad things about obama and bad things about blagojevich and i don't have bad things to say. then he started meeting with the government and he said bad things about blagojevich. and i think they want to show that rezko makes stuff up by showing things that he said about obama possibly are false. so, therefore, the things he said about blagojevich must be false. >> laura: well, i also think that ann marie, people hear this across the country, and they are hearing rezko again and blago and they ...

The senate seat barack obama vacated when he was elected president. well, now we learn that blagojevich's defense team wants to subpoena the president compelling him to testify at the trial. joining us now from new york is former federal prosecutor ann marie mac i have and from chicago steve greeneberger a criminal defense attorney. steve, let me start with you. you are in the belly of the beast of chicago. chicago machine, chicago style politics. is this one more twist in the curvey road with blagojevich to try to now bring the president into all of this? >> i think the part of blagojevich's ...

After he got convicted and said the government is trying to get me to say bad things about obama and bad things about blagojevich and i don't have bad things to say. then he started meeting with the government and he said bad things about blagojevich. and i think they want to show that rezko makes stuff up by showing things that he said about obama possibly are false. so, therefore, the things he said about blagojevich must be false. >> laura: well, i also think that ann marie, people hear this across the country, and they are hearing rezko again and blago and they think of blago and the reali...

Blagojevich is saying that he didn't do anything wrong. in addition, there are allegations relating to tony rezko who is an old friend of obama's who was convicted of fraud and money laundering and rezko is going to be also testifying in the case. and he wants to bring obama in to say hey, he thought as well that rezko was a good guy and rezko was honest and there was no reason for blagojevich to think there was anything wrong with tony rezko if even obama didn't think so when he was in the chicago machine. >> laura: rezko, let's remind people the tony rezko angle here also involves this 1999 ...

Blagojevich is saying that he didn't do anything wrong. in addition, there are allegations relating to tony rezko who is an old friend of obama's who was convicted of fraud and money laundering and rezko is going to be also testifying in the case. and he wants to bring obama in to say hey, he thought as well that rezko was a good guy and rezko was honest and there was no reason for blagojevich to think there was anything wrong with tony rezko if even obama didn't think so when he was in the chicago machine. >> laura: rezko, let's remind people the tony rezko angle here also involves this 1999 ...