( CNN ) -- Illinois Gov . Rod Blagojevich was absent again Tuesday from his Senate impeachment trial , but state senators who will decide whether to remove him from office heard him loud and clear on FBI recordings of his phone calls . Gov . Rod Blagojevich talks to CNN 's Campbell Brown Tuesday night about his impeachment trial . Only four snippets of conversations were played for senators in the second day of the impeachment trial , and all pertained to horse-racing legislation . Prosecutors said the brief recordings focused on the governor 's efforts to apparently raise campaign contributions in exchange for signing a horse-racing bill . In one recording from December 3 , a lobbyist assures the governor that a race-track owner has pledged his `` commitment . '' `` He goes , ' I hope I 'm gon na have it next week , but you have my commitment . I 've always been there . I 'm gon na be there , ' `` the lobbyist told Blagojevich of the race track owner . None of the recordings mentions money specifically . Meanwhile , Blagojevich continued an ambitious media blitz , appearing in interviews with CBS , CNN , Fox and The Associated Press . A day earlier , he appeared on CNN 's `` Larry King Live , '' ABC 's `` Good Morning America '' and `` The View . '' Watch Blagojevich on `` Larry King Live '' » . `` I hate all of this , '' Blagojevich told CNN 's Campbell Brown in an interview Tuesday . `` This is a life-changing thing . I am about to be thrown out of office for accusations that are false and not true . '' Watch Brown interview Blagojevich » . He added , `` But there 's principles involved . And that is I did nothing wrong and I 'd like an opportunity to prove it . '' The governor has railed against state Senate rules that restrict the calling of some witnesses and the presentation of some evidence . State Sen. Matt Murphy , part of the nine-member committee that put the Senate trial rules together , has said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald asked both sides to `` defer to the criminal prosecution '' of Blagojevich and `` limit witnesses . '' The House prosecution in the Senate trial is operating under the same restrictions , he said . Senators also heard testimony Tuesday from FBI Special Agent Daniel Cain , author of a 76-page affidavit released in December , when the governor was arrested on federal corruption charges . Watch proceedings from Tuesday 's trial » . Among other allegations , federal prosecutors said the governor tried to trade or sell the Senate seat that would become vacant after Barack Obama became president . Cain testified about transcripts of federal tapes in the affidavit , mostly replying in the affirmative when House prosecutor David Ellis asked whether the portions of the affidavit were accurate . `` In the end , we were very confident that it was the governor 's voice in those conversations , '' Cain told House prosecutor David Ellis . Cain said FBI agents repeatedly listened to the governor 's recorded conversations to make sure they were accurate . `` Agents would listen to the recordings repeatedly as many times as necessary to verify the accuracy and quote , '' he said . Later , as senators tried to ask Cain about the recordings , a representative from the U.S. attorney 's office was on hand to block some answers . After Blagojevich 's arrest , the state House impeached the two-term Democratic governor in two votes , with only one dissenting vote each time . The second vote was needed because of the seating of a new House . Blagojevich has said the House impeachment vote was politically motivated .
State senators heard recorded phone calls about horse-racing legislation . Governor absent from trial , holding interviews with media outlets . Senators also heard testimony from FBI agent who wrote affidavit . U.S. attorney has asked both sides to `` defer to criminal prosecution ''