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If anything if he does wind up being convicted here this defense could be a mitigating factor in sentencing. and id be very surprised if he serves the full 50 years that he could be sentenced to. jon: nobody is saying that he necessarily deserves 50 years, but a lot of this is statements, faith, were pretty incriminating in those phone calls, and the fact that he, you know, is not necessarily showing a lot of sympathy for the victim, i mean teenagers get into all kinds of texting worsts but they...

Showed again to wall street what a pro-business democrat sounds like. talking about extending the bush tax cuts. talking more positively about romneys business record. its why bill clinton did so well with a lot of the financial donors and its one of the reasons it was easier back then for the financial sector to hedge their bet. but if you go back to 2008, a lot of these donors were big, big obama supporters. they believed in him, believed he would govern more like bill clinton when it came to ...

That case. you cant hang the bush tax cuts around his neck, that will be one mitigating factor. the big advantage of pawlenty and portman, both of them are quite boring and they make mitt romney look scintillating by comparison. >> thank you for joining us tonight. coming up, karl rove would like to rewrite what he told george w. bush about dick cheney and one of the presidential candidates would like to rewrite his stupidest moment of his campaign. and if youre a "new york times" reader, back...

Running up these massive deficits for president bush and you get to go right back to that old, you know, speech about the bush deficits. >> its true, thats a down side, theres no question. i believe its true that rob portman was head of the omb for one year, maybe a year and a half in 2007. certainly joe biden will make that case. you cant hang the bush tax cuts around his neck, that will be one mitigating factor. the big advantage of pawlenty and portman, both of them are quite boring and they ...

Will be a broader overview and look into the stress on the force. look, were seen in military -- seeing in military courts soldiers, air men, air marines, are coming back from multiple deployments, the incidence of pstd is on the rise, theres no doubt about it. i see it as a military judge in the reserves. but the question is not whether they have ptsd but its whether he is legally competent to stand trial and if he is, and the trial proceeds, what impact that may have not only on the degree of ...

tonight, we have breaking news. cnn confirms the identity of the man accused of murdering 16 afghan civilians in a house to house shooting spree last weekend. 38-year-old staff sergeant robert bails, an 11-year veteran. lets get to chris lawrence at the pentagon. what can you tell us? >> well, i can tell you hes originally from the midwest and he was living in ohio until about 2001. after 9/11, thats when he joined the army. hes been based out at joint based lewis mcchord for the major...

Thats a felony. so i think that the only thing they do have under virginia law, if they show that he was so drunk and so intoxicated that he didnt have the wherewithall to understand it, that is their big argument, best argument. >> i think what the jury will -- go ahead, im sorry. >> go ahead, bob. >> i was going to say i think what the jury is really going to focus on, if i was a juror, is was this a robbery? if it flows from that, you got felony murder. >> you know what, joey? as the prosecut...

Killed her. she apparently committed infidelity and thats why he kicked in the door. he wasnt there to tuck her in. you are kicking the door. you are there to do damage. megyn: he was insanely angry according to the prosecutors. the defense -- they are suggesting i guess he had 15 drinks that day. is that any sort of a mitigating factor? >> it goes against the issue of intent. and thats the issue. the issue is whether when you are drunk you are the mental capacity to develop a scheme or plan to ...

coptic hospital where more than a dozen bodies, people killed in these demonstrations. there was a lot of anger against the military leaders of egypt, people accusing them of working with muslim fanatics against the christian minority, minority that makes up about 9% of the population. what we also saw were muslims coming to console the families of people who had lost victims in this fighting. so there is an attempt on sort of a personal street level by people to narrow this widening s...

Folks like john edwards. >> and silvio berlusconi only falls in the middle of the matrix. it makes you wonder what a guy has to do to get up higher. >> he brought to the worlds attention bunga-bunga -- >> that is true. >> on any matrix, that is a mitigating factor. were talking imf, whos next, does lagarde have it locked down? >> the europeans want to get it moving quickly. there are several turkish candidates. the classic european, the french, british and germans want to move very quickly and n...