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Appeals courts are not noted for their speed, let s say. this is something i think would be applied for in the next couple of month, and a long time off being heard, i think. and away from the leaguese. we know it s 17 to 20 counts. a lot of the counts go corruption, wire fraud, this sort of thing. in non-legal terms, can you give us some sense of what it is he has been found guilty of that he s going to go to jail for? reporter: yeah. the wire frauds, phone calls essentially. on the line with somebody in another state, and he was conspireing to make certain things happen. getting a private benefit for a public action. for instance, in the senate seat he would appoint somebody that the obama white house liked and hoped to get a u.s. ambassadorship or perhaps be appointed secretary of health and human services in return. that kind of thing. that s a wire fraud. then there were extortion conspiracies, again, conspiring with people to extort benefits poor himself. there were four atte ....
Rod blagojevich making live comments immediately following news that he has been found guilty on 17 of 20 counts of corruption effectively. this associated with accusations that governor blagojevich inappropriately, shall we say, exploited his role as the governor in order to try to advance his own political agenda. the item that was in question was the opportunity to fill a senate seat that is, or was, vacated by the now president barack obama. nick bogert, nbc news reporter in chicago on the beat. hi, nick. reporter: hi. hi, dylan. nick, can you tell us what happens next? caller: we, the judge set another hearing for 35 days from now, a status hearing. not probably he will actually do sentencing at that point. ....
An ied attack killed eight service members on foot patrol in southern afghanistan s kandahar province. that attack is the deadliest on americans this year in afghanistan. another american died in a helicopter crash in eastern afghanistan, bringing the day s death toll to nine. back here, after weeks of speculation, embattled former illinois governor rod blagojevich testified in his own defense yesterday. blagojevich spent four hours on the stand, regaling jurors with details of his personal history and denying the corruption charges against him. we get the latest now from nbc s nick bogert, who joins us from chicago. so, nick, what was blagojevich like on the stand? and did he score any points in his own defense? well, savannah, rod blagojevich was a rambling witness, i think it s fair to say that. that may actually help the defense, because one of the arguments they re going to make is that he s such a disorganized, messy thinker, so to say, that he couldn t have ....
Will face cross-examination. how much longer do you think he ll be on the stand with this direct testimony. when might the cross-examine start? there s only a half day of court today. probably cross-examine will be sometime next week. you can expect prosecutors to maybe zero in a bit more on the specific words on the audio tapes as opposed to these general questions the defense is posing. and they may even throw some of blagojevich s words off the tapes to him. they ve already suspected and gotten an excerpt of a rachel maddow interview he did on msnbc shortly after he was arrested. so, savannah, they may pull in some of his public comments as well and try to impeach him on that. there are plenty of past statements, because we know rod blagojevich does like to talk. nick bogert from chicago this morning, thank you very much. well, moving on, do you believe the glass is half full or half empty? new research finds that humans may be genetically hardwired to look on the bright side. ....
Emmanuel has been waiting for. after questions about his very eligibility, the former congressman and white house chief of staff steamrolled the competition and today will be sworn in as the new mayor of the city of chicago. the first new mayor in more than two decades. nick bogert is in chicago with more. good morning, nick. good morning. rahm emmanuel is supposed to be chicago s 46th mayor. he ll be sworn in a little after noon in millennium park, one of the signature achievements of richard m. daley who will be there. so will richard dailey s brother bill daley, the white house chief of staff who replaced rahm emmanuel. vice president biden will be there. three cabinet officers. now emmanuel will acknowledge his predecessor by saying chicago is a different city today than the one mayor daley inherited. but he s also going to frankly acknowledge the mess, the financial mess that the city has fallen into on daley s watch. facing a budget hole of $600 million. that s about one-fifth ....