VIDEO! Watch Jesse Jackson Jr on claims he is Blagojevich’s “Senate Candidate No. 5″. Jesse Jackson Jr says of the Rod Blagojevich investigation that Blagojevich offers made or not made by Jackson’s team were not authorized by him.

Jesse Jackson is at the center of the media blitz over the Blagojevich meltdown after reports by ABC broke to you moments ago that Jesse Jackson Jr is Senate Candidate 5 and his “emissaries” offered Rod Blagojevich money for Obama’s Senate seat.

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Jackson was found by ABC News today and his side of the story is that “I am not a target of this investigation” and says no one on his behalf was authorized to make an offer of such payment.

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