japan, one arresuspected of mur >> reporter: we are learning more about the case. tokyo police were holding him on different charges but now holding him on murder charges, looking to advance their case against this unidentified man, unidentified because he's still considered a minor under japanese law. for the minor of fur dg long, an irish exchange student found dead in a tokyo hotel room, strangled to death. the tokyo police say the only other person in the room was the 19-year-old. they are moving forward on a case against another american, blackston, an l.a. native. we spoke to his attorney and he says the tokyo prosecutor's office has officially charged him with groping furlong's friend on the night of her murder. the attorney says that these charges are not valid, that he intends to fight on behalf of his client trying to get his client off. he does not feel there's any sort of validity to this. the attorney also says that at this point he could face, if found guilty, anywhere from six months to ten years behind bars. soledad. >> let's turn to christine romans. good morning. >> good morning to you, soledad. mitt romney is kicking off his every town counts bus tour, six states beginning in new hampshire. president obama is back in washington after raising $2 million at the fundraiser last night at the home of actress sara jessica parker. they traded jabs in the key battle ground state of ohio. >> that it's all my fault, that i can't fix it because i think government is always the answer or because i didn't make a lot of money in the private sector and don't understand it or because i'm in over my head. >> he describes his plans for making the economy better but don't forget, he's been president for three and a half years. and talk is cheap. >> in a few moments, soledad will be joined by nicolle wallace. a high court ruling leads to government in turmoil in egypt. egypt's supreme constitutional court declared the country's parliament dissolved yesterday. the court is considered partial to the old regime led by hosni mubarak and the interim military leaders declared full legislative authority. both the prosecution and defense gearing up for a big week in the jerry sandusky child sex abuse trial. they plan to rest their case monday when the defense is kpekted to begin. eight of the ten accusers testified this week in graphic detail about the abuse they allegedly suffered at the hands of former penn state assistant football coach. joe paterno's widow and one of his sons are among the potential witnesses defense lawyers may call. you'll remember the legendary coach died of cancer, weeks after being fired in the wake of that sandusky scandal. minding your business this morning, u.s. stock futures trading higher and dow futures up 40 points and markets ral littled yesterday on hopes central banks will take coordinated action to keep money flowing in the system if europe's problems get worse. the nba finals are tied to one game apiece but advantage miami, the heat grabbed home court advantage from the thunder with a thrilling 100-96 victory last night. lebron james was king once again leading miami with 32 points. game three is sunday night in south beach. it's down to the wire literally for nik sky walker wallenda who plans to walk across niagara falls. it will start on the u.s. side of the falls and hopefully end in canada, a third of a mile later. he will be wearing a tejer at the request of his sponsors. these are live pictures of the falls from earthcam.com. we'll keep you updated throughout the day. >> another thing on the list of things i'll never do. >> that makes me anxious. >> nerve-wracking. >> christine, thank you. president obama and mitt romney are trying to convince voters to support their economic plans. they were both in the swing state of ohio. the president hammering home one of his familiar themes which was a romney win would mean a return to bush era economic policies. here's what he said. >> if you want to give the policies of the last decade another try, then you should vote for mr. romney. >> okay, and here's what's mitt romney was telling voters, if you don't like the guy in charge, you should fire him. >> in my experience of thinking about people i want to have work for me, my doctor, a person that will be painting the house, i want to make sure they did a good job the first time. if they didn't, i want someone who can do a better job. >> nicolle wallace is a former campaign senior adviser for john mccain and best selling author of "it's classified." thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> let's look at the three-point set that mitt romney said he will be honed in on. number one he said the economy, fixing the economy. he says he's going to take advantage when it comes to natural resources of the country's oil, coal, natural gas to lower energy costs so more manufacturing jobs will come into the country. has he spelled out how he's going to do it. >> first step is the keystone pipeline. i think for republicans, it's indicative of the way that obama places politics ahead of jobs. and i think the contrast romney is trying to draw there, jobs will be first, jobs jobs jobs and no other consideration will come close to bringing jobs back to america. it's a winning message for him but get an out sized amount of attention on the campaign trail. >> when you look at what president obama has done, the u.s. imports 45% of its petroleum, down from 57% in 2008. since the president took office as he likes to say a lot, the domestic oil and gas production increased every year and manufacturing jobs are on the rise, up 21,000 in his administration. is that a valid pushback against something like keystone? >> you just articulated the defense. the problem with obama's message is he's contrasting himself to george bush. and that contrast rallies the liberal democratic base, i think it's excites them -- >> what does it do for independents? >> they couldn't care less about the years of george w. bush. by the end of george w. bush's presidency, independents had lost faith with the bush years after katrina and two years, some of the most weary part of the voters once in george bush's camp. but they are not pur sueded to back barack obama in this bush bashing he seems obsessed with doing. >> when you look at polls on that, how much do you blame on the current policy and they say president bush, 68% not much or none. 31%. it seems a large number of people blame president bush and when you ask the same question about president obama, at least a moderate amount, 52%, not much or none, 48%. >> what's wrong with those polls is that president bush isn't on the ballot. the better question might be do you blame george w. bush or are you going to take it out on mitt romney? i haven't seen anybody ask that question, that's the axis around the decision people will make in the privacy of the voting booth turns. do you blame george w. bush and are you going to take out the anger on mitt romney? i haven't even big numbers in response to that question. the other thing is, we never had an election that hinges on the past and four years is the distant past as you know from covering campaigns -- >> five months feels like a long time. >> it's a dog year. so to take voters back four years. >> it's not going to work. >> it's not going to work. >> even latd out specific proposals yesterday, there was no messaging around plans but no specific messages in plans. mitt romney was talking about obama care. here's what he said in his speech. >> the president said the other day that he didn't know that obama care was hard for small business. oh, really? the chamber of commerce carried out a survey, some 1500 businesses across america, 75% of those people surveyed said obama care made it less likely for them to hire people. think of that. >> i thought it was a little strange, no one cites a chamber of commerce survey. i know when you were working in administration and campaigns, you lived and died by the surveys, but 1500 seems very small when there's something like 28 million small businesses in the country. >> it does. >> and chamber of commerce doesn't do official surveys. >> this to me -- mitt romney is a guy who's always going to give us his citations, he's very deliberate and analytical and wants us to know he's not speaking of political hyperbole. >> a chamber of commerce is respected voice for business in america. they have a reputation totally void of politics nationally in washington everything gets plitized. in terms of speaking for business, i don't know there's any institution more credible. i think this is going to be a contest. i think on the right we are going to have to be that voice for the small business owner. they feel they have not been listened to in the last four years, whether it's real or perceived, there's a sense that obama, not only does he not respect and want to nourish business but doesn't understand how it works. that is essential to the republican message. you'll hear more and more voices from business. you'll hear mitt romney cite studlydyes and polls and data and anecdotes from small business. ability to convince voters that he can make this country by getting everybody back to work. >> we'll talk to ben labolt who will give ugs the other side later this morning. appreciate it. thank you. still ahead on "starting point." after all of that graphic testimony from eight alleged victims in the jerry sandusky trial, how does the defense counter? we'll talk to jose baez, the guy who got casey anthony acquitted. he'll weigh in next. also get real for the groom who never made to his reception before he cheated on the bride. come on. we're sharing our heads. we start our "starting list" playlist this morning with ledisi. ine, their very first word was... 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[ yawning sound ] welcome back. the jerry sandusky trial is in recess today. it will pick up on monday morning when the prosecution is expected to wrap up its case and the defense is expected to begin that case. some of the most shocking and graphic testimony came from three alleged victims yesterday. the accuser, the victim rather, known as victim number nine, testified that he screamed for help while sandusky abused him in the basement. but he says help never came. jose baez is the author of "presumed guilty", casey anthony, the inside story and also a criminal defense attorney who successfully helped acquit anthony in her murder trial. imagine for me -- >> good morning, soledad. >> you are sitting next to jerry sandusky and you're his defense attorney. how do you assess the case so far? >> if things are being reported accurately, it's in a really bad situation right now. you've got to be seriously considering having mr. sandusky testify. especially if that wasn't the case prior to this position, meaning, you never know at any given point whether your client is going to testify. normally you kind of put that decision off to the very end. if things are being reported accurately and that's a big if, it's looking pretty bad for mr. sap dusky right now. >> what would be the thing to put him on the stand or decide not to put him on the stand? >> if he's going to testify any like he gave in the bob costas interview, that's a definite no. but if we can get the educated man who is used to going into living rooms and having top athletes and their parents selling himself too top athletes and their parents to come to penn state, then you might have someone who can handle themselves well and sell themselves well on the stand. all of these things are taken into consideration plus the fact that mr. sandusky doesn't have a criminal history, he can't be impeached in that regard. it makes him a decent candidate to testify, but if he's going to be anything like he was during the bob costas interview, i would seriously advise against it. >> he fumbled and didn't give straight answers a lot. who do you think you would put on the stand first? >> in this situation you have to -- i've heard about this histrionic disorder. if that's something -- >> what is that? >> you know, it's some type -- i've never heard of it prior to this case. but my understanding and what i've seen so far is it's a type of grand ioss type of personality disorder which someone likes to be the center of attention and what it might do is put a little distance between some of the alleged victims and slow the case down to the point which you put forensic testimony and psychological testimony that might kind of get away from the emotion that the prosecution -- if the prosecution has been successful in putting forth so far. i'll tell you one thing, if there's no court today and the prosecution ended on a high note, the jurors have the whole weekend to be soaking in a lot of what the prosecution's case is. so i would probably tell you that that was done on purpose to end their goal on the weekend on a very high note and that's going to be pretty bad for the defense as well. >> your sfrtrategy would be to fill with frenic to block and bring down the level in the room, if you will. what has been the most damning testimony so far? is it the detail that seems so consistent across these accusers? >> no, as much as -- i think the eyewitness testimony of mr. mcqueary is probably the most damning right now. if the defense has been able to poke holes at the motives of these alleged victims, the problem with that is there's ten of them. that's a lot. you can usually discount one or maybe two alleged victims in a sexual abuse trial, but to have ten of them, that is pretty -- that's a mountain to overcome. then to have an eyewitness testimony who actually saw the sexual abuse occur, you don't get that in sexual abuse trials. it's very, very rare. it's almost as good as a video. >> going to be interesting to see what the defense does starting monday. jose baez, thanks for your insight. >> thanks soledad, have a great one. >> when you get married you promise to be faithful, the whole death do us part thing. for one couple it meant i'll be faithful to the reception. sadly, that is our get real this morning. and our starting point team is heading in. we'll talk about that and much more. we have margaret hooper and will kain. ♪ >> one day, that's celest's playlist, nice to have you back. margaret hoover and will cain is a columnist at the blaze.com. our get real may be a new low for the institution of marriage. about taking a vow to be faithful to another person for the rest of your life. you see that in front of your family and friends. for one happy couple in austria, the happiness did not last. the groom had too much to drink and clouded his judgment i suppose and according to the austrian times, literally hours after he said i do, his brand-new father-in-law went looking for him in the reception hall kitchen and walked in on the groom and a waitress in a compromising position shall we say. >> most compromising. >> was that actual wedding footage? >> you know -- >> it was not. that's generic married people. >> we have wedding footage of this six-hour relationship? >> you don't need to rub it in to that extent. the father of the bride stops the party and kicks out all of the guests and the bride herself is like, that's it, i want a divorce. can't get a divorce. >> for six months, austrian law. >> anullments -- >> for the love of pete. i'm surprised at the restraint of the father-in-law. >> we could be doing a homicide investigation today. >> or severe beating. >> in my family it would have been like -- >> guess he's figuring out it's his party. i'm kidding. he's a horrible human being. all of these things -- >> why get married? he may not be a horrible human being, say no to the wedding. >> there were probably problems before the wedding. >> my thought too but you never know. >> i'm sure he wanted to be married and wanted it all. >> clearly, yes, he did. and in six months, he's going to lose a big chunk of that. >> still ahead on "starting point", philadelphia mayor michael nutter wants to create more jobs. how he and hundreds of other u.s. mayors are going to do it. remember the mini darth vader from the super bowl commercial, max page, he's now using the force to recover. he's had open heart surgery. such a cute ad. we'll update you on how he's doing and what his story is. from capital one, thor's couture gets the most rewards of any small business credit card. your boa! 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