What If They Held an Impeachment and the Governor Didn't Show Up? ; Gov. Blagojevich Hits the Talk-Show Circuit and Skirts the Trial in Illinois.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich's historic impeachment trial began Monday, Jan. 26, without its defiant defendant, who refused to participate and spent the day in New York making TV appearances to decry the trial as unfair.

Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald asked whether Blagojevich was present and a long silence followed. The chief justice, who is presiding over the trial, ordered the proceedings to begin as if Blagojevich had entered a plea of not guilty.

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What If They Held an Impeachment and the Governor Didn't Show Up? ; Gov. Blagojevich Hits the Talk-Show Circuit and Skirts the Trial in Illinois.

Blagojevich, meanwhile, was hundreds of miles away and hit the morning show circuit, appearing on ABC's "Good Morning Americ...

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