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Dubbed the full ginsberg and whether you call this sunday the full marco or rubio round robin the subject wont be interns. it will be immigration. go ahead and touch that dial this weekend. it might not matter anyway as floridas republican senator marco rubio will be on five, count them shall five sunday talk shows. plus the two spanish language networks. during the rubio round robin the senators aides say hell be making an opening argument for comprehensive immigration reform. rubios partners i...

Jenna: right now a murder trial is going on in arizona for a woman who admitted, admitted to murdering her boyfriend. now she has changed her story a few times. first, she insisted she didnt do it. she would never do something like that. then she said she did kill him, and it was self-defense. rick folbaum has latest on this story, rick? >> you get a sense where this trial is going to go hearing the defense attorneys opening argument. she told the jury flat-out that jodi arias killed her former ...

Term unemloimt up. food stamp use at a record high. those things we were promise wod not happen oo. karl, thank you. >> you bet. >> and is it too soon to know if conventions were successful? joining us once again, our political panel. rick klein, and rick, how do you fine a successful convention? >> i dont think that exists in this campaign. i dont think its realistic to expect a balance. im sure theyd love a balance. and there is about answering questions and laying foundation for the six or 7%...

Term unemloimt up. food stamp use at a record high. those things we were promise wod not happen oo. karl, thank you. >> you bet. >> and is it too soon to know if conventions were successful? joining us once again, our political panel. rick klein, and rick, how do you fine a successful convention? >> i dont think that exists in this campaign. i dont think its realistic to expect a balance. im sure theyd love a balance. and there is about answering questions and laying foundation for the six or 7%...

Not just between two political parties, or even two people. its a choice between two very different plans for our country. sometimes politics can seem very small. but the choice you face, it couldnt be bigger. >> that was like a closing argument, not an opening argument. and this is mitt romney with cnbcs larry kudlow yesterday. >> its a very strange and in some respects, foreign to the american experience type of philosophy. if you have a business and you started it, you did build it, and you d...

Voters this election year. republic supports of the texas measure says it would cut down on voter frawvmentd the critics stay actually does discriminate against minorities along with the poor and elderly, many people who may be likely not to have photo ids such as a drivers license. the justice department used that argument to block the texas law in the spring. now texas argument in this case is in the federal court. it has implications far beyond texas. more than half of states require voters t...

Alleged victims had motivations to lie. there is all this media coverage that has already happened so far leading up to this. do you think that the defense attorney, if he comes out swinging against these alleged victims, he could run the risk of offending the jurors? >> absolutely. thats just one of a number of risks. we heard in this 52 minutes -- its ironic, 52 minutes to talk about 52 counts in this particular case. and the prosecution already warned in their opening argument, listen, we are...

To this horrible cross-examination. but imagine the emotional angst and anguish of having to relive those last three or four years of her life publicly in front of a jury. i think that no matter how willing she was to do it, it would have been very tough for her to do. >> indeed. lisa myers, thank you very much. there at the courthouse. well be waiting for the arguments, the closing arguments tomorrow. california governor jerry brown has an opening argument. hes going to have to hiketachs, cut h...

Governments case. almost too good at that point. palmieri heard about a plane flight, shopping trip, john edwards in the room showing knowledge of some efforts to support her, not hundreds of thousands of dollars. there were no details. it didnt take the governments case beyond the indictment. so the government is in the final hours now. the key for the prosecution, to prove that edwards knew or should have known he was committing a crime is still a gap in the governments case. >> hampton, they ...

Calls. if you look at what his son said. >> and record intended to make the jury confront that issue. in her mind, record would succeed only in the jury returned a verdict of first-degree murder. that meant the killing was premeditated, premeditated by a man driven by a sense of shame and dishonor. even if the jury convicted al-malecki on the less serious charge of second-degree murder or even manslaughter it would be a devastating loss for record and a victo victory for al-malecki and his publi...