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The lead investigator is being replaced after it was revealed he faces a momented murder charges of his own. greg palkot is live from the courthouse in south africa with more. >> reporter: thats right another strange twist in this oscar pistorius murder case. we were inside the courtroom today for day three of the bail hearing. we actually spoke with the detective in question. we asked about his performance yesterday with all that contradictory testimony, his description, so-so, an understatemen...

News. if you want to take uncle sam mortgage industry. between fannie mae and freddie mac and fha those three entities underwry all of the home loans. as long as the americans want a 30-year fixed you are going to have uncle sam in the picture. >> dave: that means a disaster on s on the way. fha insured about 740,000 loans that were in foreclosure, about 10% of the one trillion dollars of the mortgages may be in trouble? >> that may be an understatement. the government will throw them out of bus...

And included but is that what were likely to see here at this point? >> that seems to be what people are indicating. i cant speak to that negotiation but i can tell you that all of the different things on the table have real strong support of the american people and they want to see real action and they want to see a variety of measures, particularly stronger background checks and a ban on high capacity magazines. >> tim, she brings up a point. the american people want to see the universal backg...

Thank you for sticking around here. this is the first the president is leaving d.c.. first of several cities hes expected to visit and bring the message and this city is significant because they have seen a drop in gun violence as a result of actions taken in their communities and that were supported by lawmakers there, as well as police. >> its a great thing. >> to say the least. you are short a -- brief today. thats a great thing, understatement. to when a community pull s together and whats n...

Rebuild an economy in which the american dream, the american compact is fresh, where people who work hard feel like they can get ahead? >> hes going to see common ground, find every way he can to compromise, but hes going to be pret i can ty clear, and were also going to bring the american people more into the debate than we did in the first term. >> doris kearns goodwin, presidential historian and author most recently of "team of rivals" and msnbcs presidential historian michael beschloss. to s...

Some questions. you want so many answers but you have to focus them at the end of the day on what the issues really are. jenna: really quick here, doug, as a defense attorney. >> yes. jenna: how would you prove that she did this in self-defense? what is going to be your move? >> well the good news on the defense side honestly, there are only two parties to that and one is gone. have her take the stand the guy viciously came at me and so on. you have to hope the jury buys into that on some level....

Interior, however it cost toss renovate the bathroom in the secretarys private office, you heard right, $222,000. and thats your tax money. and so, what did you get for that price tag? for starters, $3500 sub zero refrigerator, yes, a refrigerator in the bathroom and faucets. the renovations were done in 2007 under president george w. bushs administration and the interior secretary at the time was dirk hemthorn. renovations were the product of an internal audit by the gsa. what does the gsa say ...

>> greta: the secretary of the interior, however it cost toss renovate the bathroom in the secretarys private office, you heard right, $222,000. and thats your tax money. andt >> what did you get for that? $3500 subzero refrigerator -- yes in the bathroom. and a faucet that cost $689. now, the renovations were done in 2007, under president george w. bushs administration. the interior secretary at the time was dirk kempthorn, the renovations were the product of an internal audit by the gsa. what ...

Bless this honorable court and the house start the sessions with prayer and nothing in our history to suggest they wanted neutrality between religion and nonreligion. >> well, theres one thing they certainly did not want the founders of our country and thats hostility towards religion and i had a subsequent ten commandment case which we won unanimously, the idea, again, posting ten commandments did not create a constitutional crisis. the court has been in conflict on the ten commandments cases a...

Is he president. he was reelected. >> bill: im talking about hagel now. is hagel on board with all of this diminishment of american power. >> hagel is no george marshall and no henry kissinger. is he not somebody of great stature and ideas of his own. he has never been known for that and nobody has been able to produce a single idea or a single piece of legislation. he will do what the president wants him to do. thats one of the reasons he chose him. there is an affinity of views and i dont expe...