Blago Calls Fitzgerald A Coward

CBS TV Chicago has the video. Here's the Chicago Sun-Times:

In a news conference outside his lawyers' South Side office, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich outright asked for a showdown with U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.
Blagojevich said he would go to court tomorrow and he hoped Fitzgerald "was man enough to be there too."
He called federal prosecutors "cowards and liars," for "hitting below the belt" and lodging allegations against his wife, Patti, last week as well as for opposing his playing all the fsecret FBI tapes in court.
"They're now hitting below the belt and attacking my wife," Rod Blagojevich said of allegations last week that his wife, whom he referred to as "a licensed professional" was essentially a ghost pay-roller for convicted political fixer Tony Rezko. Blagojevich spoke directly to Patrick Fitzgerald, essentially challenging the U.S. Attorney to show up to the courthouse tomorrow and talk about playing all the tapes.
Here's what he said:
"The government is covering up the big lie that Mr. Fitzgerald gave to the world that he had me arrested December the 9th and he told the world that he heard tapes and he heard telephone conversations and had to arrest a sitting governor because he was "stopping a crime spree before it happened." That is a lie. And the reason they won't play all those tapes is because they're covering up that big lie that foreseeably led to a chain of events that stole a governor from the people of Illinois and undid the will of the people."

There's one Blago, just one. No word yet from Blago's good friend Eric Holder.