#2245 - Rod Blagojevich

898.412 - 926.25 Rod Blagojevich

There wasn't anything illegal about it. But Rahm Emanuel, Harry Reid at the time was the Democratic leader – every possible big-time Democrats on those calls with me. But to go back to some of these crazy ideas, I was trying to appoint someone who was black but not in politics. I was looking for a military hero of some sort. Everybody wanted me to make them senators, you can imagine, in politics.