- Anderson Cooper went after former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich after he said he was willing to work on criminal justice reform after being pardoned by Trump.
- The ex-governor appeared on the CNN segment on Friday, where he claimed he was a victim of a corrupt criminal justice system.
- Blagojevich was serving a 14-year sentence after being found guilty for corruption for attempting to sell the former President Barack Obama's vacant US Senate seat. He was convicted on 17 corruption-related charges in 2011.
- "You're creating a whole new alternate universe of facts," Cooper said during the interview. "And that may be big in politics today, but it's still frankly just bulls---."
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"I am a political prisoner," former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich tells @AndersonCooper, adding "if you were to ask Nelson Mandela whether he thought the process was fair back in the early '60's in South Africa, he would say what I'm saying today." https://t.co/bTlyAqZmL6pic.twitter.com/Z5ypvNiHAOTweet Embed:
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In which @AndersonCooper calls actual "bullshit" on Blagojevich in fiery interview pic.twitter.com/8oorGogs7s
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