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Jon: harris, thank you. jenna: "happening now," the suspect in a 33-year-old murder mystery is reportedly on suicide watch. pedro hernandez is his name. he's expected to be arraigned today despite that. new york city police say he confessed to killing 6-year-old etan patz back in 1969. apparently, the confession says that hernandez strangled this little boy just a few steps from his home. we're not clear on the motive or a lot of details except for the confession which we're starting to hear more about. former federal prosecutor fred tecce is with us. we've seen them so many times, fred, and j...

Is not admissible. right now there's no body except for the individual's confession about how it happened, there is no physical evidence. and that confession might not be able to come to the sources in new york because of this very particular law that new york has. jenna: so then what? i mean, then what, chip? does that mean he would never have a trial? >> well, no, that's the reason why the continued investigation is so extraordinarily important in this particular case. the police are going to go back after listening to the confession and see if they can find some type of corroboration, that ...

People know -- jon: fred is chomping at the bit. >> there that's not what they're saying. first of all, he's charged with conspiracy, conspiracy to accept money and, secondly, conspiracy to make a false statement to the federal election commission. this is not -- >> he's not charged with that. he is charged with receiving illegal campaign -- >> you've got to let me finish, jennifer, you've got to let me finish, okay? the judge doesn't let this guy testify because in his opinion it wasn't a crime. that's not all the crime that was charged. >> he was charged with accepting illegal campaign contr...

They can agree on the law, unlike you two. jennifer, fred, thank you. [laughter] >> thanks. jenna: it'll be interesting to see what happens next. it could be jail, jail time or nothing for john edwards. jon: it could be a case of how the mighty have fallen or, you know, exoneration. jenna: or maybe a comeback story. oh, gosh, i don't know if we're ready -- well, we'll see what happens. a health care overhaul rebate. how does that sound, right? why millions of americans may be getting checks in the mail this summer because of this new health care law regardless of the fact that the supreme cour...

Exactly my point. [inaudible conversations] jon: how are the jurors? >> this should have never gone to a jury. this should have never gone to the jury. >> well, it should have been different charges. >> it should never be in front of a jury. jon: fred, isn't it true that the judge's ruling, again, sort of watered-down or maybe lowered the bar for a conviction here, doesn't it effectively mean that if this jury finds, decides that he really was trying to just hide this pregnancy and affair from his wife, that that in effect helps boost his political career, because it keeps his wife onboard, an...