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Irregularity and obstruction of justice on his part. >> valerie, let me ask you, what do you think is your best chance on appeal? >> well, there are a lot of issues, but the fact that i think that we have been able to demonstrate that jackson was not on a propofol drip on the day that he died, and the prosecution's case centered around such a theory, and i believe that i have been able to demonstrate that he was not on a propofol drip, he was only aa saline drip. >> they say there was a slash in the bag and the propofol bag was perched inside the saline bag. you say that's made up? >> it's an ...

Requirement for me to monitor michael. there was no monitoring requirement for a patient who does not have heart failure or cardiomyopathy or some other condition, where they have fluid retention, renal failure, that requires monitoring when you're on a saline drip which is plain salt water. >> you continue to maintain you did not give michael jackson propofol on the day he died? >> i did not give michael jackson a propofol drip. around 10:40 that day, after he really begged and cried and he looked so -- it was such a painful condition to see this man that was about to lose his entire potentia...

Was so absurd. he altered evidence in open courtroom. could you imagine that? if i had to do this again, that's the one thing i would never do. i would never sit quietly in the courtroom and have a district attorney tear open and destroy the integrity of evidence when there was no reason to do that. that was not the only time. there were so many issues of irregularity and obstruction of justice on his part. >> valerie, let me ask you, what do you think is your best chance on appeal? >> well, there are a lot of issues, but the fact that i think that we have been able to demonstrate that jackson...

Could you imagine that? if i had to do this again, that's the one thing i would never do. i would never sit quietly in the courtroom and have a district attorney tear open and destroy the integrity of evidence when there was no reason to do that. that was not the only time. there were so many issues of irregularity and obstruction of justice on his part. >> valerie, let me ask you, what do you think is your best chance on appeal? >> well, there are a lot of issues, but the fact that i think that we have been able to demonstrate that jackson was not on a propofol drip on the day that he died, a...

alabama. >> it's tonight. >> get that early start then. that's what it's all about. t.j., thanks so much. we begin, it is a very sad day but at the same time a life is being celebrated, sad day for "60 minutes" and many of us who have loved watching andy rooney for so many years close out that program. rooney died last night from complications following minor surgery. he was 92. rooney got his start as a writer in the army and spent nearly 60 years at cbs, half of them on the air. he always thought of himself as an ordinary guy that simply wrote about what he saw and read what he wro...