Rod Blagojevich: Democratic Party I grew up in abhorred lawlessness, riots

Former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich joined "Tucker Carlson Today" to discuss his life, his governorship, imprisonment and ensuing clemency from Donald Trump.

His father, Radislav, had immigrated from Yugoslavia and found work at the Finkl Steel Company mill. Blagojevich remarked that decades later, he held election victory gatherings at the mill in honor of his father's hard work to give the family the opportunities they had.

"[Radislav Blagojevich] spent four years in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during the war for fighting on the side of the Allies, and then was in a refugee camp for three years, waiting for the chance to hopefully have the United States Congress-- that one day, his youngest son would become a member of-- pass a law called the Displaced Persons Act," he said. 

"That permitted my father and millions of others like him, with these long and hard-to-pronounce last names a chance to come to America, to pursue freedom and opportunity." Blagojevich's mother, Mila, had roots in Bosnia-Herzegovina.