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devices. why aren't you being allowed to see what's going on inside the courtroom? a mistake -- dick cheney coming out swinging, being one of the few top republicans to say john mccain's pick of sarah palin as vp was a bad choice. and they call her the missile, missy franklin, just 17 and already turning heads in london. the female michael phelps, as some call her, dives in today for two very crucial races. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning. thank you so much for joining us. happy monday to you. i'm carol costello. we begin in poland this morning where just a few minute...

jim spellman. he's standing outside the theater. we can see the neon sign behind you. let's talk first about this video. i know it's black and white. what more can you tell us? >> yeah, police describe this whole apartment as being designed to kill. all rigged up to a trip wire at the front door. it took them almost two days before they could figure out how to dismantle this safely, ult the matly using water to render inoperable this control box. fortunately there wasn't a timer to it because they needed that much time to sort out how to do it. when they were finally able to render i...

It is very new onsed because the general public, they hear competency and they think insanity. you are right. it is different. the first thing we do is ask the judge for a competency evaluation. that's tonal see whether the client understands the charges against him. do i know why i am here? are you the judge? what's going on? who is this attorney standing next to me? that's understanding the charges. now, you have to bring the client to be fit to sit at trial and at that point, you use it as a defense, insanity. whether the person knew the difference between right and wrong. >> there is insan...

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