'It's still frankly just bulls---': Anderson Cooper calls out former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for claiming he's a 'political prisoner'

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• 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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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper skewered former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for claiming he is a "political prisoner."

Blagojevich appeared on CNN on Friday, where he claimed he was a victim of a corrupt criminal justice system that led to his time in prison.

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