Rod Blagojevich

you know your questions well you probably raise you know you talked about civil war anything back the days leading up to our civil war night like to think we're not even close to that but you're right to raise it because you can see how there's a slippery slope that we're going down and you know uh...

was the defiance of federal law lincoln getting elected and different states decided we don't want to be under that election with that president so we're leaving and before that they were defying federal law and uh we saw what happened now you have a situation where

not only has president from the given a mandate by the american people to do what he's doing but also the situation where we know that it works when there's cooperation so the success that president trump is have the national guard of washington dc uh... it was in part because the mayor there bowser

was willing to accept that and work with him.

And, you know, they can get into nuances, oh, well, that's a federal city versus, you know, a city like Chicago.

But if you're the governor of the state of Illinois or the mayor of Chicago, you have an obligation to your citizens to keep them safe.

And the National Guard coming into Chicago with all the crime we have and the need to support ICE in its efforts to follow the law

and do what's necessary to follow the law, you would think that a governor, irrespective of party, would welcome that support and thank the president and then take credit for the success of protecting American citizens and American taxpayers.

But our politics has gotten so crazy and the Democratic Party is such a crazy party now with the lunatic fringe becoming the mainstream and guys who are somewhat reasonable like J.B.

Pritzker being transformed.

What he's trying to become is basically AOC and drag.

Okay, he's trying to like get into her politics, as opposed to sort of being the Bill Clinton type Democrat that supposedly he used to be.

And the Democrat Party doesn't seem to have room for the Bill Clinton Democrats anymore, the JFK Democrats anymore.

This is a party that's been taken over by that left wing radical fringe that is no longer the radical fringe, it's now the radical mainstream.

And it's a socialist, communist kind of party.

And it's a party, and our governor, again, that is basically siding with mob violence and anarchy and chaos over the law, the rule of law, law enforcement, and those who have to enforce the rule of law.

And that's what this conflict is now.

And that's why it's a seminal moment in our history.

And it's why I think President Trump is going to go down –

probably 150 years from now because historians can't be objective, is one of our great presidents because I do believe he's going to be successful in this and solve this problem because he has the law on his side.