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Voters this election year. republic supports of the texas measure says it would cut down on voter frawvmentd the critics stay actually does discriminate against minorities along with the poor and elderly, many people who may be likely not to have photo ids such as a driver's license. the justice department used that argument to block the texas law in the spring. now texas' argument in this case is in the federal court. it has implications far beyond texas. more than half of states require voters to show some form of identification. nine states have very tough voter i.d. laws. just as texas. al...

Alleged victims had motivations to lie. there is all this media coverage that has already happened so far leading up to this. do you think that the defense attorney, if he comes out swinging against these alleged victims, he could run the risk of offending the jurors? >> absolutely. that's just one of a number of risks. we heard in this 52 minutes -- it's ironic, 52 minutes to talk about 52 counts in this particular case. and the prosecution already warned in their opening argument, listen, we are going to use sandusky's own statements to nbc news' bob costas, that interview that had us all ri...

To this horrible cross-examination. but imagine the emotional angst and anguish of having to relive those last three or four years of her life publicly in front of a jury. i think that no matter how willing she was to do it, it would have been very tough for her to do. >> indeed. lisa myers, thank you very much. there at the courthouse. we'll be waiting for the arguments, the closing arguments tomorrow. california governor jerry brown has an opening argument. he's going to have to hiketachs, cut health care for the poor and elderly and trim the state's payroll if he's going to fix a nearly $16...

Government's case. almost too good at that point. palmieri heard about a plane flight, shopping trip, john edwards in the room showing knowledge of some efforts to support her, not hundreds of thousands of dollars. there were no details. it didn't take the government's case beyond the indictment. so the government is in the final hours now. the key for the prosecution, to prove that edwards knew or should have known he was committing a crime is still a gap in the government's case. >> hampton, they executive to be closing their case today. prosecutors indicated they will not call john edwards ...

Calls. if you look at what his son said. >> and record intended to make the jury confront that issue. in her mind, record would succeed only in the jury returned a verdict of first-degree murder. that meant the killing was premeditated, premeditated by a man driven by a sense of shame and dishonor. even if the jury convicted al-malecki on the less serious charge of second-degree murder or even manslaughter it would be a devastating loss for record and a victo victory for al-malecki and his public defenders. >> lane, one of the founding fathers of this country thomas jefferson has been quoted a...