breaking news tonight, just obtained as we go to air, previously kept private video of michael jackson just hours before his death in full dress rehearsal. michael jackson seemingly performing from beyond the grave, but tonight why is it released? ♪ >> oh! >> this will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. ♪ every day read your history ♪ some things in life they just don't wanna be ♪ ♪ but if martin luther was livin' he wouldn't let this be ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ >> hold for applause. hold for applause. slow, umbrella, fade out. good evening. i'm nancy grace. i want to thank you for being with us. michael jackson seemingly performing from beyond the grave. we have just obtained the private video of jackson's full dress rehearsal just hours before he collapses and pronounced dead. ♪ they wouldn't let this be ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ the first videotape we have seen from that -- that final full dress rehearsal that michael jackson had on tuesday night. those who loved michael jackson, they'll say it's michael jackson in his top form. >> he was very energetic. he was happy. he was more playful than he normally was at rehearsal. >> others might say that he looked thin. and we don't see many dance moves. >> the nation's top drug cops are now joining the investigation. dea agents looking specifically at the role that prescription drugs could have played in michael jackson's death. >> he was so adamant about, i will pay any amount of money for someone to help me to sleep. i looked at him and that was the first time i got this chill through my body. i said, michael, if you take that medicine, you might not wake up. >> michael jackson's will continuing to create a lot of buzz, especially the section about who he wanted to care for his kids. >> katherine jackson nominated as guardian of his three kids. diana ross, the backup. debra rowe birth mother of the two oldest kids, specifically excluded. >> will she put up a fight for jackson's kids? rowe's attorney says she has not decided yet. ♪ some things in life they just don't wanna see ♪ ♪ but if martin luther was livin' ♪ >> straight out to paul vercammen. he is standing by there at the staples center. paul, we understand that there is going to be some type of memorial at the staples center, but first, let me ask you, where did this video come from? this is michael jackson in full dress rehearsal pushing himself to make it through that rehearsal just hours before he collapses in his own home in front of his son and dies. >> well, nancy, quite a surreal scene here at the staples center earlier this morning. what happened was, aeg, who has been promoting michael jackson all along, which owns the staples center, decided it would roll out this tape and allow some interviews. what happened was, about 12 of us were allowed to go into a room inside the maze, which is the staples center. there was heavy security all day long. we were wearing plastic wristbands as if we were hospital patients. then the people with aeg said, before they began this, we want to release this tape and show to everybody because we're sick and tired of this talk that michael jackson was somehow absolutely sick and on his death bed. then they then played the tape. aeg who very much wanted to get in front and show the world that michael jackson wasn't on the precipice of death and that he was, indeed, rehearsing and practicing and up there with the other dancers and all of that, nancy. >> paul vercammen, explain to us again who or what is aeg that released this video, this videotape just hours before michael jackson collapsed dead. >> what a great question, because aeg basically in a sense had very much taken over michael jackson's life from this standpoint of this. they are the company that owns staples and other concert promotions. they were going to put on the london shows, all 50 of them. aeg put up the bill, so to speak, to put michael jackson in what they were hoping would be a very insulated environment, inside the holmby hills estate. where they thought michael jackson would be resting, preparing and gearing up for the concert. after all, this is aeg putting up a huge amount of cash to pull this off. aeg also, somewhere in the making of the contract, said michael jackson should be watched over by the physician of his choice. so that's the role that aeg was playing. and they thought that they had taken the proper steps to ensure that they would get basically a return on their investment and their investment in this case was very much everything that is michael jackson. >> joining me outside the staples center is paul vercammen. and apparently there is going to be some type of memorial there at the staples center and you're going to get charged $25 apiece to pay your respects to michael jackson. i'm going to go out to mary margaret, senior news editor with radaronline. mary margaret, it seems as if the vultures are surrounding him even now in death, trying to make a buck off him, even selling t-shirts at the memorial? >> right, of course. michael jackson is one of the biggest stars in the world. and obviously his tragic passing is a big opportunity for a lot of those people who feel like this is their moment to capitalize. >> back to paul vercammen. standing by at the staples center, the location of a tuesday memorial where you've got to pay money to pay your respects and you can buy a t-shirt. paul, what type of aliases was he using? >> well, from what we understand, some of it was made-up names. some of it might have been people who were his bodyguards. this is all alleged, of course, so anything that would allow him to get ahold of prescription drugs that he didn't think that he could get enough of allegedly in abundance. >> to dr. marty mccarry, physician and professor of public health at johns hopkins. dr. mccarry, thank you for being with us. >> sure. >> look, i know it's going to be tough for you to turn on your own, but when are doctors responsible? these pharmacists, yeah, maybe they're kind of responsible. but they're following orders. they are following orders of a prescription written by a doctor. >> i've got to be honest with you, nancy. we as a profession admittedly acknowledge we don't do a great job of policing ourselves. when you put a doctor in a position where his patient is also his employer, this idea of a private celebrity doctor, oftentimes there's a conflict of interest and they get rotten care. >> so what's to become of -- i mean, what's going to happen? we're going to have somebody like you speaking out against this practice on air, but what is to become of these doctors that allegedly wrote all of these prescriptions to michael jackson under false names? >> my guess is that the california state medical board is going to revoke all of their licenses and there may be jail time involved. but remember -- >> put makary up on the screen. because i want to see him say that with a straight face. do you remember octomom and there was the doctor that put all of these kids in her tummy for her to give birth to all of these children, way past the standard of care for in vitro. nothing's happening, okay? why do you believe anything is going to happen to these doctors? nothing ever happens to the doctors. >> doctors oftentimes -- we are a self-regulated profession, different from other professions. so i'll give it to you, that's difficult to prosecute doctors. but, remember, the doctors may not have been involved in writing the prescription. they could have been falsified or the doctors could have been involved in writing them, in which case the california state medical board can say, enough medicine for you guys. you now no longer have a license for the rest of your careers. >> speaking of the government of california, back to paul vercammen, standing by at the staples center, paul, i understand that even arnold schwarzenegger tried -- the governor of california tried to intervene on behalf of the jackson family to have jackson buried at neverland. why? i mean, you don't just bury a body out in the backyard. and, number two, why didn't it work? when you've got the governor trying to make it happen, even he couldn't make it happen? >> well, there's a lot of things at play here, not the least of which is they're trying to do this in santa barbara county, which is arguably one of the most difficult places on the planet to jump through hoops in any kind of planning commission or zoning commission. now, let's go back to where neverland is. it's in ranch land. michael jackson's neighbors are viable ranchers. that's called agriculture preserve. so when you get into this, even the governor may not be able to supercede county laws which say this is what you can do there. for example, michael jackson's ranch right now, they couldn't sell it and make it into condo world. those parcels, as i was told by a county planner, can only be divided into three separate pieces. so that's what they're fighting. >> got it. paul vercammen joining us from the staples center. tuesday, set to go down, quite the spectacle as the vultures circle around michael jackson's dead body. they're trying to make money off his memorial. you are seeing just-released video, private video of michael jackson in full dress rehearsal just hours before he collapses in front of his young son and dies. ♪ >> this will go down in history as the greatest demonstration of freedom in the history of our nation. ♪ ♪ oh! this will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. ♪ every day we enjoy history ♪ some things in life they just don't wanna be ♪ ♪ but if martin luther was living he wouldn't let it be ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ [ horn honking ] we are showing you video that we have just obtained, video released by aeg. they wanted to prove to the world that michael jackson was fit as a fiddle just hours before he collapses dead. paul vercammen, explain again who is aeg? >> aeg is the company that owns staples center and a lot of other interests. they are basically in the business of promotion and they are the people who had taken over michael jackson's career in a sense, not only putting on the 50 concerts in london and putted him up in the rented mansion in holmby hills, and also making sure that he had medical attention 24 hours a day. they said they would assign a doctor to him, the doctor of his choice, nancy. >> i mean, let's unleash the lawyers. everybody, we're taking your calls live. gloria allred. you all know gloria allred, family law attorney, victims rights advocate out of l.a. alexis martin neely, state attorney out of l.a. mickey sherman, renowned attorney out of new york. and daniel horowitz, famed attorney out of the san francisco jurisdiction. gloria allred, they're trying to prove so hard how healthy he was, but yet they were assuring he had a doctor round the clock. something doesn't ring true to me. and how do i know he's healthy? to me he looks extremely thin, extremely pale. how do i know he wasn't on some kind of drug to boost his performance and that's why he needed all of these drugs so he could come down and go to sleep? >> well, nancy, exactly right. the old expression, something is rotten in denmark. and, yes, it's interesting, by the way, that the "national inquirer" -- and you can think what you want to think about them, but they had a headline six months ago that michael jackson was unlikely to live six months, because of basically the cocktail of different drugs that they alleged that he was taking. it's possible for him to be there at the rehearsal concert but not necessarily be able to do the big tour that he was planning to do and there were certainly bookies in london taking bets about whether or not he would actually be able to do the tour. a lot of people betting that he wouldn't be up to it because of his health and because of the allegations of drug use. >> to mickey sherman, it seems to me like it's a case of cya, cover your assets, by aeg, trying to make sure that they are cleared of any wrongdoing, pushing michael jackson to perform. i mean, come on, how can you say he's healthy as a horse and we've got a round-the-clock doctor for him? >> they're protecting their investment. that's what they're doing. it's about money. it's about merchandising. it's just such an odd epilogue that they're going to make money merchandising at his funeral or wake or whatever they call it at the staples center. i agree with the other guests -- i disagree with the other guests. no doctors are going to jail here. if it wasn't those doctors, it would have been other doctors. this was a slow-moving train wreck. aeg was trying to recover their money, trying to protect their asset, get him ready for the tour and make money. they didn't care about michael jackson. >> speaking of making money, to daniel horowitz out of san francisco, daniel, who was going to make the money of charging people that come to his memorial, $25 a ticket, and you can buy a t-shirt? >> well, nancy, i would assume that aeg owns the rights to most of michael jackson's performances and -- and so on going forward. i also think they'll end up selling the video that you're showing parts of. so, in a sense, we're advertising the video for them today. >> and to alexis martin neely, apparently this video is going to be made into some type of a movie. where is that money going? and since you are the estate's attorney expert, let me ask you this. in his will, he leaves 40% to his mom, 40% to his children, 20% to charity. but at the death of his mother, all that money goes to his three natural children. would she be allowed to disburse or give away the money during her lifetime to other family members? >> well, if that money is going to her -- we don't actually know that. what we know is that the will says that the money is going into the michael jackson family trust. we haven't seen the trust. we don't know what the terms of it are. that's going to be dictated completely by the trust if she can give it away or not. ♪ just don't want to be ♪ but if martin luther was livin' ♪ ♪ he wouldn't let this be ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they really care about us ♪ ♪ i'm here to remind you ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is they don't really care about ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ ♪ ooh ♪ >> this moment will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. ♪ every day we enjoy history ♪ some things in life they just don't wanna see ♪ ♪ but if martin luther was livin' ♪ ♪ he wouldn't let this be ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ right now, you are seeing the $25,000 custom-made casket for michael jackson. the color, flame blue. it's extremely rare. only known to be used with james brown. we are taking your calls live. out to bridget in california. hi bridget. >> caller: you talked about all of the drugs with michael and when do doctors become responsible? >> i'm sorry. i can't hear you. could you repeat that, bridget? >> caller: yeah, when do doctors become responsible? i can only imagine the doctors in southern california, when any major person comes in, they're not going to turn them down, no matter what they want. >> are you talking about giving him the sedatives? is that what you're talking about? >> caller: any drugs. if he needed stuff to stay awake or go to sleep, i'll pay you anything, will you help me? when do they say, you know, i can't do that? he'll go find somebody else. if he continues to get turned down, he wouldn't be in the position he was in. >> you know, out to natisha lance, our producer standing by if appearance near jackson's home. we are now learning that there are allegations that michael jackson was using all sorts of aliases to get prescription drugs. what do you know, natisha lance? >> the dea has joined forces and with the coroner's office a part of this death investigation for michael jackson, and they are investigating just that, these alleged aliases that michael jackson had, also, where the prescription drugs may have come from. the specific division with the dea's office that is looking into this is one that tracks down prescription drugs, trying to find out who is originating them, who is writing them. so they're looking into the doctors who may may have prescribed that and how michael jackson if that is the case, wound up with so many prescription drugs. >> this will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. ♪ every day we enjoy history ♪ some things in life they just don't wanna be ♪ ♪ but if martin luther was livin' ♪ ♪ they wouldn't let this be, no ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ ♪ this moment will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. ♪ every day we enjoy history ♪ some things in life they just don't wanna be ♪ ♪ but if martin luther was livin' ♪ ♪ he wouldn't let this be ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ i'm here to remind you ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about ♪ ♪ all i wanna say is that they don't really care about us ♪ [ horn honking ] ♪ joining me right now is a very special guest, uri gellar. he is joining us from london, england. thank you for joining us, sir. you have been a long-time friend of michael jackson's. it's my understanding that on many occasions, you tried to stop him from using prescription drugs. >> look, nancy, all i can tell you is that i've seen mike until situations where i was extremely concerned for his health and his life. i think i was the only individual that dared to shout at michael and, indeed, on numerous occasions i simply screamed, "michael, you will die if you continue this, this will kill you." and i couldn't do more, simply because i did not live with him. i was living in england, he traveled the world. and he lacked a person next to him, somebody who really cared for michael. >> with us is uri geller from london, england, a long time friend of mr. jackson's. mr. geller, where would he get the prescription drugs? it is illegal for doctors to just write all these prescription drugs, even under false names he was getting them, apparently. >> nancy, i agree with you. i wish we knew where he was getting the