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President today. what's, 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 president's 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 guatemala, meetings with the guatemalan president where you heard the vice president talk a lot about th...

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 america's 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 speaking at a forum in washington. the group claims it is the largest ever gathering of jewish repub...

On 18 counts of corruption including trying to sell off president obama's 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 sentence but, still, handed down the very stiff sentence, 14 years. he will do 11 years, 11 months be...

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're going from here, so we will keep fighting through this adversity. >>reporter: we have two illino...

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. it is the intended amount of money, $1.5 million. and that combination assured him of the sentence ...