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This week the new york city police department passed a unique milestone. the the department has conducted five million stop and frisks under michael bloomberg. this controversial police practice of stopping and searching people who they deem suspicion attracts intense scrutiny because the vast majority of stops have not resulted in my discovery of wrong doing. 88% did not result in arrest. 87% targeted were african-american or latino in a city where young black men make up 5% of the population. ...

To politics now, john kerry is about to give his first major speech as secretary of state. it will happen at the podium in 35 minutes. sunday hell leave for his first trip since taking over for hillary clinton, visit the uk, germany, france, italy, turkey, egypt, united arab em rats but not israel. general john allen will retire to take care of his wife who is seriously ill. allen says it has nothing to do into his e-mail relationship with jill kelley. allen was cleared of wrong doing. tiger...

They need to be prosecuted for wrong doing. that has not happened yet. after the savings and loan crisis in 1977 and 78, 3,500 wall streeters were put in jail. this time, zero. its a matter of prosecution and getting these people held accountable. do that and also learn to work together. in the real world its important for washington and wall street to work together. >> the fiscal cliff as well as taxes, talked about by the president. what does business want on these two issues? >> you know what...

General petraeus on thursday. he greatly appreciates general petraeuss remarkable service to his country. but hes not going to make grand decisions about things based on, you know, two situations, two individual cases. hes focused on the missions that the military is tasked with. >> lets look at all thats happened. the pentagon is combing through thousands of pages of documents belonging to john allen. hes denied any wrong doing. a u.s. official tells nbc news that the documents could connect ge...

>> geraldo: what about the hearsay stuff, are you worry because he was convicted largely on the hearsay evidence and on so-called drews law, kathleens law, the hearsay law passed by the state of illinois. do you worry that an appellate court will reverse the conviction? >> i do not and i say that because, one, drews law basically is not in existences any more. at the time i ruled drews law was a valid law and i ruled under that law. after that the illinois supreme court adopted the common law fo...

Illinois. do you worry that an appellate court will reverse the conviction? >> i do not and i say that because, one, drews law basically is not in existences any more. at the time i ruled drews law was a valid law and i ruled under that law. after that the illinois supreme court adopted the common law forfeiture by wrong doing and put it into the rules of the court. basically say if the rules of the court conflict with the statute the rules apply. we the trial was had the forfeiture by wrong doi...

Stand. >> they are hearsay witnesses. >> it is not a crap shoot. >> and there is something called for forfeiture by wrong doing. let me tell you this. the reason here hearsay is admissible is because if you precommit a crime to prevent someone from testifying. for example from you stopped kathleen savio from testifying at the divorce settlement you cant say everything that she said doesnt come in. and if you stopped stacy peterson from testifying that drew said x, y, z by murdering her -- >> wel...

Forfeiture by wrong doing. dont you basically say we are going to let it in because we think by a preponderance of evidence drew peterson tried to center lines kathleen frto prevt her from testifying in the divorce. >> that decision that ruling by judge white is under seal. we cannot tell you what the signings were. we accept what was discussed in open court and that was i think 8 out of the -- 8 out of the 12 segments he found to be unreliab unreliable. we already have a judicial finding all of...

Forfeiture by wrong doing. dont you basically say we are going to let it in because we ink by a preponderance of evidence drew peterson tried to center lines kathleen frto prevt her from testifying in the divorce. >> that decision that ruling by judge white is under seal. we cannot tell you what the signings were. we accept what was discussed in open court and that was i think 8 out of the -- 8 out of the 12 segments he found to be unreliab unreliable. we already have a judicial finding all of t...

I will say this you are absolutely right in a court of law in joliet, illinois a judge said by preponderance of the evidence drew peterson killed kathleen savio. >> that is a preponderance of the evidence. thats a different standard. >> no question. >> the other issue is a jury here has to make a determination. right? they are not going to rely upon the judge. >> i am not suggesting its proof beyond a reasonable doubt. i am saying a judge has said wait a minute i am going to let this in because ...