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good morning, we're happy you're with us this morning. welcome to "early start", i'm zoraida sambolin. >> we're bringing you the news a to z, get it? big story in d.c., roger clemens to be judged by a different group of people, baseball writers, the men and women who choose the hall of famers after he was acquitted on all of the charges in his perjury trial yesterday. the rocket denying all along he ever used performance enhancing drugs. yesterday his attorney insisted again that his legendary pitching career is not tainted. >> i hope those in the public that made up their mind before there was a trial will now back up and entertain the possibility of what he has always said, using steroid and hgh is cheating and totally contrary to his entire career. >> joe johns is live in washington and so, joe, long fight, four years, millions spent. big investigation. big prosecution and i suppose a big headline today a bad two weeks for the doj, first john edwards and now this. >> it has been a bad month for the justice department or month or what have you. the roger clemens case, this was referred to the justice department by a congressional committee on capitol hill after he testified in a deposition and a hearing and denied the use of performance enhancing drugs. so this thing was sort of handed to the justice department and they kind of had to do it just the same. it's been a long road for roger clemens. let's listen to what he had to say after his acquittal in federal court in d.c. >> really all you media guys that know me and followed my career, -- [ applause ] i put a lot of hard work into that career and so again, i appreciate my teammates that came in and all of the e-mails and phone calls. >> so why did this case break down for the government? there are a lot of reasons but two very quick reasons, number one, the star witness, brian mcnamee, really had his credibility dismantled on the stand. and the defense also had a very effective retort when it came to the key evidence against clemens, they said the evidence was a pile of garbage, which it sort of was, it was syringes and medical waste that had been stuffed down and crushed up miller lite can and kept for seven years. the jury didn't buy it. i don't know anybody should go to prison on evidence like that. >> those thinking, hold on a second, congress? wasn't this about steroids. this was a lying issue, not a steroid using issue. does roger clemens, anywhere down the line, now that this part is cleared, does he face prosecution for the use of steroids at any point? >> it is a schedule iii drug, controlled by the dea, nonetheless, you have to assume that would be a double jeopardy question. i don't think so. i don't think that the government wants to bark back up this tree. the big question is sort of the jury of his peers and that has to do with stuff like the hall of fame and whether he's going to get in. he comes up eligible next year is a long with, you know, a couple of other people, including sammy sosa, for example. so some people have said this question about performance enhancing drugs is best left to the sport to handle and keep it out of the courts because here in america right now, we have questions about bankers walking away with billions of dollars that they weren't supposed to have. and so many people have asked me, why in the world did the government go down this road when this country has so many other problems. >> maybe those jurors were asking the very same thing, mr. johns, right? >> thank you. >> joe johns getting up early on this one. thanks so much. a quick addendaddendum, if you recognize the lawyer standing with roger clemens, you're college, that was anna nicole smith's lawyer as well. "starting point" will have an interview with rusty hardin and soledad will have a chance to speak with him about this case. it is five minutes past the hour. the child sex abuse trial of jerry sandusky could go to the jury by the end of the week. before that happens, nbc news reports prosecutors may introduce a potentially explosive unaired portion of an interview sandusky did with bob costas, listen for yourself as sandusky seems to all but admit seeking out young people for sex. >> so it's entirely possible you could have helped young boy a in some way that was not objectionable while horribly taking advantage of young boy b rs c, d and e? isn't that possible? >> you might think that, i don't know. in terms of my relationship with so many, many young people, i would guess that there are many young people who would come forward, many more young people, who would come forward and say that my methods and what i had done for them made a very positive impact on their life. i didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that i've helped. there are many i didn't have -- i hardly had any contact with who i helped in many, many ways. >> the defense is expected to wrap up its case tomorrow afternoon. that will be followed by the prosecution's rebuttal, with closing arguments expected to begin thursday. a canadian porn star accused of killing and dismembering a university student is back in canada and expected to appear in court later today. luke magnotta returned on board a military plane. police say he mailed one of the victim's hands and one of his feet to canadian politicians. more homes are reduced to ash in colorado because of that stubborn high park fire. fire officials are confirming eight more homes are lost. that brings the total to 190 homes destroyed. crews had to fight the fire in record heat yesterday as well. calmer winds gave them a little reprieve there. close to 59,000 acres have been scorched and that fire is 50% contained. >> from control to anything but, another wildfire to tell you about, this one in north carolina. this one began with a controlled burn sadly to report then it swelled out of control consuming 11,000 acres. this fire is not contained. former rutgers student ravi is expected to be released from jail today. ravi served 20 days of a 30-day sentence after being convicted last month of using a web cam to spy on roommate tyler cle men ty having sex with another man in their dorm. ravi earned the early release for good behavior and work credit. when he gets out, immigration officials say they will not deport him to his native india. the u.s. and russia hitting a big chill when it comes to the topic of syria. meeting yesterday at the g-20 summit in mexico. face says it all, really. white house hoping that mr. putin would be on board with the plan to remove syrian president assad to end the slaughter of civilians in that country. instead president putin called on the syrian people to decide for themselves who will lead them. >> economic groom and doom at the g-20 summit, president obama and other world leaders turning up the heat on europe to solve its debt crisis. that is triggering a war of words saying european nations don't come to the g-20 to get lecture. today president obama will meet with hu jintao. the national average is $3.50 per gallon. a nerd arms race, a new battle is being waged in the war between microsoft and mac, microsoft getting back into the hardware business, unveiling a direct challenge to the ipad with its own surface tablet. this is video given to us by microsoft with pretty tight restrictions. it has nearly the same speks as the ipad, take a look. it's a little thinner, weighs a little more. has a larger screen and it has a kick stand. >> i like that. >> i do too. movie watching. >> no word on price yet, expect that it will be competitive. we're happy to try it out, aren't we ashleigh? >> movie watching is always the great thing. if you get a kick stand on your device -- by the way i want to clear up, i said anna nicole's attorney, she was in court against rusty hardin, it was actually howard marshall's attorney going up against in a cross-examination of anna nicole smith, that's why he got so many fame back then and now representing roger hardin. >> it clicked for you. >> it went head to head and made for an incredible courtroom moment. opposing attorney shall i say. >> the big question, we're not here, we're talking about the ipad, aren't we? >> we're going to talk about a reporter -- this reporter who had a microphone and couple of questions doing what he was supposed to be doing and things did not go very well, unfortunately. you have video you have to see to believe. it tells you why our business is so dangerous. it can get kind of ugly out this at times. love to walk. yeah, we found that wonderful thing. and you smiled. and threw it. and i decided i would never, ever leave it anywhere. because that wonderful, bouncy, roll-around thing... had made you play. and that... had made you smile. 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