FBI
File #9536B Wiretap on line 312-XXX-XXXX November 10th, 2008
12:42 PM
Eastern Time
Rush
transcript:
RAHM
EMANUEL: This is Rahm.
ROD BLAGOJEVICH: Hey
Rahm, yeah it's Rod.
EMANUEL: Uh-huh. What's going on governor, I'm
busy.
BLAGO: Well, it's about that
Senate appointment. ..
EMANUEL: We already gave you the list of people we
like.
BLAGO: Yeah, I been looking the list over.
Interesting names. Good people. How's the transition going?
EMANUEL: It's going fi ne, governor. Are you calling to ****ing tell me
anything, or what, cause I--
BLAGO: No no, I'm just wondering if you have all your picks already
made. I heard something about Dashle for HHS--
EMANUEL: I'm not gonna discuss ongoing deliberations, gov, you know
that.
BLAGO: Hey, come on Rahm, let's not act like I'm a
stranger here.
EMANUEL: Did I
call you a stranger? If I thought you were a stranger, you think I'd be
interrupting my important ****ing business to take this ****ing phone
call?
BLAGO: Hey you don't have to
get curt with me, Rahm.
EMANUEL: This isn't me being curt, Gov, this is me being ****ing busy.
Now what did you call about?
BLAGO:
I'm just feeling you out, seeing if Valerie [Jarret] still wants that Senate
seat, just wondering what kind of priority that is for the
President-Elect.
EMANUEL: Big ****ing
surprise.
BLAGO: What's that supposed to
mean?
EMANUEL: Um, I don't know, what's it supposed to
mean governor? A.) You're a ****ing crook. B.) You're a ****ing asshole. C.)
All of the above.
BLAGO: I'm clean Rahm, you know this. You think that ****ing
Fitzgerald would being twiddling his ****ing thumbs if he had
**** to go on?
EMANUEL: I gotta go, Gov. You appoint who you want, we really don't
give a ****.
BLAGO: What if I appoint Valerie, what if she takes
it?
EMANUEL: What do you want me to say? We'd
appreciate it, I'm not gonna ****ing kiss your ring over it.
BLAGO: "Appreciate it"? Come on, this is a senate seat we're talking
about. It's worth a **** of a lot more than appreciation.
EMANUEL: You asked us for a list, we gave you a ****ing list, you want
to make your own list then make your own ****ing list. [Raising voice] But if
you're asking for anything else from me, or Barack, or Valerie, then you can
****ing stop talking right now Rod.
BLAGO: Wait a sec there Rahm. Wait just a ****ing minute. Who are you
to talk to me like that? I ****ing made you.
EMANUEL: You made me? You made me? Tell me you're ****ing
joking.
BLAGO: No no no, you listen to me ****-face. You see this list I got,
the names mother****ing Obama ****ing wants for the Senate. I just ripped it
in two. How you like that? Oops, Harris just dropped it in the shredder.
Harris?
HARRIS (muffled): Yes sir?
BLAGO: Did you just drop that list in the shredder?
[Whirring, shredder noise]
HARRIS (muffled): I did.
EMANUEL: Do you have me on ****ing speakerphone?
BLAGO: It's in the shredder, Rahm. The list is bye bye.
EMANUEL: Hold on a sec -- you got me on ****ing speakerphone? Who the
**** do you think I am?
BLAGO: Who are you Rahm? Who are you? You're ****, you hear me? Don't
come back to Chicago Rahm, it's not your town any more.
EMANUEL: Pick up the phone Rod.
BLAGO: I'll put someone in the senate who will ****ing **** you. I
might even put myself in there, how you like that Rahm? How you gonna explain
that to ****ing Barack, every time he's gotta call me up for my ****ing vote.
He'd have to take my calls then, wouldn't he?
EMANUEL: [Screaming] I said pick up the ****ING
phone!
BLAGO: [Picks up phone,
speakerphone off] I got your attention now, didn't I?
EMANUEL: Shut the **** up and listen to me for one second Rod. And I
want you to listen carefully, because this is the last time I'm ever going to
talk to you. You are ****ing dead to me. You been ****ing dead to Barack since
'06, now you're dead to me. Know what that means? That means you're dead to my
people in Chicago, Daley on down, and all these friends you think you have
aren't gonna touch you with a ten foot ****ing pole.
BLAGO: Oh now you're the ****ing Godfather? **** you.
EMANUEL: No **** you. **** you. **** you.
BLAGO: **** you!
EMANUEL: Listen up asshole. The ****'s gonna hit the fan, maybe
tomorrow, maybe next month, and when Fitz finally brings down the hammer it's
gonna be my name that's going through your head. You won't know the hows or
the ****ing whys, but it's gonna have my ****ing fingerprints all over it.
Have a great life fatso.
BLAGO: Hey ****--
EMANUEL: [Click.]
End of conversation
End transcript.
