The Queen of Talk was considered to fill President Barack Obama’s empty United States Senate seat, embattled Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich revealed on Good Morning America Monday.

“She seemed to be someone who would help Barack Obama in a significant way become president.”

The governor, whose historic impeachment trial begins today, says that Emmy Award-winning talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey “was obviously someone with a much broader bully pulpit than other senators.”

When asked by BFF Gayle King on XM Radio Monday if she would consider the seat, Oprah replied:

“Absolutely not. I would have said, ‘Where would I fit it in with my day job? My mid-day job, my night job, my radio job, my magazine job?’”