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dr. conrad murray, whos accused of causing the death of michael jackson. to ted rollins in los angeles. >> reporter: piers, it was a riveting day in court today, we got to listen to conrad murray, basically, this will be it for jurors, unless he takes the stand, he gets to tell his side of the story through a police interview. a two-hour audiotape that jurors heard about an hour and 40 minutes of. in it he talks about giving michael jackson propofol every single night during the two mo...

dramatic day in the trial of dr. conrad murray, whos accused of causing the death of michael jackson. to ted rollins in los angeles. >> reporter: piers, it was a riveting day in court today, we got to listen to conrad murray, basically, this will be it for jurors, unless he takes the stand, he gets to tell his side of the story through a police interview. a two-hour audiotape that jurors heard about an hour and 40 minutes of. in it he talks about giving michael jackson propofol every s...

Ke sure to look for the white check. megyn: well, the internet is roaring with debate over the new book "battle hymn of the tiger mother." its a publication in which author amy chua argues that asian mothers are superior. she argues against play dates, sleepovers, tv and computer games, demands her children get nothing less than as if all of their courses and talks about how western mothers could take a lesson from this eastern approach. so how exactly does her husband feel about that? jed ruben...

It on amazon.com right now? >> yes, you can. megyn: "the death instinct" by jed rubenfeld on who we wont call tiger dad. she writes beautiful thicks about you too -- things about you too. congratulations to you and your family on all the success. >> thanks so much. megyn: well be right back. she felt lost...

Tiger mom approach than i have seen any author this recent years. so let me start with that, and then were going to get to the death instinct. you find yourself immersed in this controversy, your wife, poor thing, is getting death threats, and your thoughts on it are what? >> well, listen, and thank you for having me. you know, amys book has become part of a national conversation. i think thats great. but im kind of a more private person, i dont talk much about my family, so heres what im going ...

Be about in part that readers might think about once theyve read it is why do people do these things? why do they kill? why do they kill -- megyn: very timely, sadly, this week. >> it really is, its terrible. but they do it, they do it over and over, and we always think, oh, its related to our present times -- megyn: or mental illness. and in many cases thats true. >> of course its true. and freud said, he was looking around at world war i where millions of people died for really no good reason,...

Id never heard of it, and im a criminal law professor. manhattan, september morning, and out of nowhere with americas hit by the deadliest, most massive terrorist attack on american soil to that point, and its not 9/11, its 1920. probably the biggest terrorist attack in history, and to this day we dont know who did it. nobody was ever arrested or identified. megyn: a tale of intrigue and mystery and romance follows. but in be your book you talk about how dr. freud has a theory of the death insti...

>> well, shes given me more than a run for my money in a lot of ways. [laughter] megyn: listen, i want the viewers to know that your daughter came out and wrote a beautiful defense of her mother, and they sound like beautiful, happy girls, and you dedicated your book to them. and can your book is called "the death instinct." you, big-brained person, while you were an undergraduate at princeton, wrote your thesis on sigmund freud, and you incorporate that into this book by having the doctor weigh...