#2245 - Rod Blagojevich

2508.543 - 2533.801 Rod Blagojevich

Rahm Emanuel asked him to do it and instructed him to tell him that Barack himself had asked him to come. This is just a theory. A theory. And the theory is plausible in that what would be the motivation for Rahm to do that was that as the new chief of staff with Obama and in the power game of politics, which is something he knows real well and I know, is people want to be close to the king.