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Of the last seven governors went to prison. so this one -- >> martha: welcome to the club, we have a few from new jersey too. >> the only thing i will say, i do not know about the sentencing guidelines, you may be right about that, but there was more to the case then just what was described there. by governor blagojevich's wife. at one point he threatened to pull $8 million from the state for the children's hospital that was trying to build a children's hospital. >> martha: he is saying that that was political -- that is politics, that's the way it works. people say, you do that for me in, i w...

That goes through the department of justice where they make recommendations, my understanding is that donald trump is not listening to that. he is not even getting the names from that pardon process. that's why i say, it feels like it is more based on celebrity and famous people that he knew. i think that is weird. >> martha: he is definitely a person who operates that way to some sort of extend by gut, and he must've seen "the wall street journal" piece where blagojevich said when an investigation comes up empty with manpower, and you cannot prove the crime, they create one. and perhaps that ...

Said a lot worse." president trump says that he does not know blagojevich, other than his appearance on "the "celebrity apprentice"" in 2010 when he awaited trial. >> so governor, you have a hell of a lot of guts. they crawl into a corner and they die, you are out there punching. so i respect that. >> i appreciate that. >> president trump's comments today, even though blagojevich was in jail for saying things that many other politicians say, seemed to echo blagojevich's arguments laid out this week in an opinion piece that he will do a back road from "the wall street journal." it was headlined...

Described as kilometers as the last option to overturn through the court. he admitted mistakes and acknowledged the "it was my actions and my words that led me here" an admission that he now contradicted with mondays "wall street journal" piece. his lawyers have argued that blagojevich has been rehabilitated in prison. to say that he teaches history, counsel's fellow inmates, and for a time apparently, he was the lead singer for a prison ban called the jailhouse rockers, as ever with this man, you cannot make this stuff up, martha. >> martha: thank you very much prayed here now for an exclusiv...

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