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dr. conrad murray, who's accused of causing the death of michael jackson. to ted rollins in los angeles. >> reporter: piers, it was a riveting day in court today, we got to listen to conrad murray, basically, this will be it for jurors, unless he takes the stand, he gets to tell his side of the story through a police interview. a two-hour audiotape that jurors heard about an hour and 40 minutes of. in it he talks about giving michael jackson propofol every single night during the two months he was taking care of the pop star, except, he said, for the few days leading up to his death....

jobs. and it is now cheaper to buy a home than ever before. time to play reporter roulette on this thursday. dan lothian, let's begin with you there at the white house. dan, we listen to the president this morning answering many questions and not only did he take on republicans, he's taking on, again, millionaires. >> reporter: that's right. what we are talking about here is that surtax to pay for the president's jobs bill which senate democrats are pushing 5.6% on those making over a million dollars. we did not see or hear a full-throated endorsement of this from the president. in f...

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that because her family wants to spend a lot of private time with her to catch up for that past four years. brooke? >> sandy, thank you very much. let's go to alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. we're 60 minutes away from the "closing bell." how did today fair? >> that's right. it's just another rough day. we've got another hour to go before the "closing bell" sounds. stocks have been stuck in the red for most of the day. we saw them trim their losses after comments from fed chief ben bernanke. saying growth will be in the second half of the year. problem is, the second half...

about a few weeks ago that would be more likely to garner bipartisan support and actually get done? >> the problem the president is facing republicans have said no to basically everything so far. i think they will agree to certain provisions, certain tax cuts in the president's plan but it's going to be like pulling teeth for the president. when i said republicans want a lousy economy on election day, i certainly didn't want to paint with too broad a brush. it's not every republican. but undoubtedly the just say no policies of the republican party do tend to lead one to believe that ...