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June in the early days of the full-time seven days a week campaign. you may remember the romney campaign making its opening argument, unveiling what they wanted to be the defining message of the romney campaign. they put mr. romney in front of shuttered factories and depressed economic locations, had him talk about how awful the economy was. >> when he took office the economy was in recession, he made it worse. he made it last longer. >> president obama did not cause the recession, but he made it worse. the trouble that mitt romney got into this, into over this was two-fold. first problem was ...

Child learned how to open the door, the grandmother took the child off the ladder because she loved swimming, so, i think to that extent it corroborates his opening argument and the hope, the defense theory, that this was not a murder but an accidental death. >>arthur: your question, though, is fascinating. the criminal justice system is not transparent. we keep all kinds of stuff away from the jury. for whatever the reason. , there is lots of stuff and we don't let them know anything so why we lease this stuff now? to what end? to what good? it makes no sense. let it in. or never let it owe. ...

>> trace: the defendant once again raising eyebrows with his behavior in court today. >> yeah, he had one odd bit of behavior in the courtroom today. he pointed up at the ceiling when al-qaida was mentioned, possibly he was pointing at the sky. it's not clear what he meant and it's not clear why he would do that in front of the jury. >> why he did that, i don't know. is he trying to get some sympathy somewhere? it's not very good and he's losing credibility. if i'm on the jury, i'm seeing that and government is talking about al-qaida and he points up, it gives me some suspect. and also shows m...

but "cnn newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> speak of washington, we have a busy two hours ahead. randi, thank you very much. hello, everyone. are you ready for this? the debt deal is done, right? not exactly. we still need to see votes happening both in the senate and the house. on the house side, it looks like some democrats could be holding things up. we'll speak with one of them. we expect to hear from speaker of the house, john boehner this hour. we'll carry that live for you. so stay tuned for that as well. let's begin here. as the clock continues to tick, n...

Behavior, and how much fun she's having, and now you have mom on the stand, and the jury says to themselves, this is how somebody behaves in the face of this kind of tragedy, so again, you're setting up the contrast where ultimately i think the defense's version will get blown up. >> that said, all the defense has to do is have one person, correct, on that jury who says, you know, the child could have drowned? the mom could have just gone ballistic out of fear, as they are alleging, of her mother and father's retribution of anger? do you see it as being a potential out come? >> this defense at...