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Response of the nixon campaign and john mitchell and other folks who later became convict ed felons. and we saw what happened in watergate and we will see what will happen here. >> that's true. 1972, shortly after the break, the dnc files a lawsuit on the day that nixon leaves office. finally, senator claire mccaskill, who's in one of the most contested races in the entire country in missouri, of course, she called this lawsuit a silly distraction. and i wonder if you -- your response to that. >> well, we can walk and chew gum. i love senator mccaskill. we've invested in her race. we're going ...

Behind the scenes, something is brewing. it remains a mystery. i think it's pretty clear if there's one person who can flip him, it's rick gates. >> samantha, the charges that were handed down against paul manafort in october essentially were -- i believe october -- were enough to guarantee if he was convict ed that paul manafot would spend the rest of his life in prison if he was convicted. what then is the value, what are we learning about why these additional charges are coming? if he didn't flip or cooperate then, would these be enough? >> i don't think we know. i think that manafort has m...

>> two months later, william bernard would no longer have to worry about defending himself in jail. his judge found him not guilty by reason of insanity. but the legal definition is different than it sounds. the judge says he was competent to stand trial but not in a proper state of mind on the night he had the conflict with his father that led to his arrest. he was remanded to the state department of health who will monitor him and he must report to the court every six months for the same period of time he would have gotten in prison had he been convict ed. in bernard's case that's 20 years.

Fund represented a man on appeal who was convicted in 1982 of killing a philadelphia police officer. that man was convict ed when adigbule was just a kid. and he worked on the case for the naacp as it challenged in appeals the constitutionality of the jury's sentencing instructions. and they won. the court ruled in favor of the naacp which resulted in jamaal's death sentence being vacated. he's now serving life without parole. that single appellate representation was then transformed into the basic kind of demagoguery on fox news. >> he volunteered to help out this man, who was convicted of

bullets and smoke grenades. more than 100 protesters were arrested after they entered a ymca there. oakland's mayor says there's no excuse for this behavior. >> it's time, i think, for the occupy movement to take a stand on whether this behavior, this kind of behavior that has nothing to do with the 99% movement, can -- should be tolerated. >> protesters say it's not over and plan to continue today with what they call a rise up festival at an area park. on the east coast, washington, d.c., an occupy protesters have been warned to stop camping in two parks near the white house or th...