The following is a rush transcript of the August 15, 2010, edition of "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace." This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

CHRIS WALLACE, ANCHOR: The corruption trial of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich finally ended this week. He was convicted on one count of making false statements to the FBI, but the jury could not reach a verdict on all the other charges.

The governor joins us now from Chicago for a Sunday exclusive.

Governor, you were supposed to come here to Washington today, but instead you attended a convention in Chicago called Comic-Con, where you posed with superheroes and charged $50 for an autograph and $80 for a photo. Is there anything you won't do for a buck these days?

ROD BLAGOJEVICH: Well, I didn't really get any money from any of the photos I took, because I took probably hundreds of them and couldn't bother to ask anybody for any money for that. Those were free.

I did sign some signatures. I was there because I was invited at the last minute by the promoters, and it was an opportunity to get out there among the people.

You know, Chris, when the federal government comes down on you and these prosecutors are determined to get you when they target you, among the things they do that doesn't make headlines is they squeeze you financially.

They squeeze you and your family to keep you from being able to earn a living and to force you and compel you to basically surrender and give up and admit to things that you didn't do. And so part of this battle that I'm in, this war that I'm in, is also one where I have to make a living for my little girls, my daughters and for my wife.

And when I was invited and had a chance to be able to do that, I did it. The reality is I spent most of my time just meeting with people, ordinary people, and just feeling the pulse of them.

It wasn't exactly, you know, some tremendous way to earn a living, but it was -- it was a way to get out among the people and a chance, frankly, to meet some of the heroes that some of us had when we were kids, like, you know, the guy that played Batman, Burt Ward, and the guy that played Robin, Adam West -- I flipped them around. It's the other way around.

But no, it's important to earn a living when you're facing these kinds of situations and we're trying to...

WALLACE: Governor?

BLAGOJEVICH: ... you know, keep our head above water.

WALLACE: Governor...

BLAGOJEVICH: Yes, Chris.

WALLACE: ... prosecutors have already said they're going to re- try you. And in fact, there's going to be a court hearing on Thursday to discuss the schedule for that.

The fact is you were not acquitted. The jury hung on 23 of those 24 counts. So why shouldn't the government re-try you, which they do all the time?

BLAGOJEVICH: Chris, when the government went into my house at 6 o'clock in the morning on December 9th, 2008, and this prosecutor had me locked up in a jail cell, and he told the people of Illinois and the people across America that I was selling the president's Senate seat for money, and he was, quote, unquote, stopping a crime spree before it happened, that Abraham Lincoln would roll over in his grave, he did what Winston Churchill said. He told a lie.

And that traveled halfway around the world before the truth had a chance to put its pants on. The government put their case on. We did not put on a defense. Their case did not prove any corruption, as I had said all along.