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Hearing testimony in the case. and it appears the u.s. attorney is making progress. joining me now is criminal defense attorney brian weiss who has experience with political corruption cases and salon.com's joan walsh. thank you both for being here tonight. brian, let me go to you. david wildstein, camped out for days. what does that tell you. did he get immunity? >> well, i think it means he won the race to the courthouse. in a situation like this, immunity grants are like life preservers on a sinking ship. unfortunately there aren't enough to go around sometimes. and the fact that mr. wildst...

What it didn't win was the election. you can expect to see more and more of these clever political ads as they rely on the varl nature of the internet, exposure that is free and more likely to be seen as more and more americans fast forward through commercials on their dvrs. dvr users skip 50% of commercials. in this world viewers are more and more numb to television commercials where they've seen so many generic political ads over the years they probably blur together as white noise at this point. in this world is the only way for a candidate to break through, to actually catch the attention ...

News conference. >> i expect it's going to be another long pity party, about how wronged he feels about this and how let down he's been and how he's losing sleep, like he was telling diane sawyer, i expect him to do exactly what he did last time. i don't know if it will go on for two hours, i don't know if he has that stamina, but i expect it to be self serving and he won't give an inch. >> be sure to check out joan's article on the christie scandal at salon.com. we're also linked to the report. steve and bob are going to stick with us as we continue our coverage here on msnbc. we're just mi...

Whether or not a large public company like exxon can exercise religious beliefs. >> and amy, is there a precedent for ruling narrowly that a closely held corporation could have exemptions that a larger corporation than exxon or a walmart wouldn't be allowed to have? >> well, certainly they could, because this is the question before the court. the parties in these cases are, yeah, there's two families that own three companies between them. and the immediate families control the entire corporation. and so they're saying the corporation is really like an extension of us, and therefore, our religi...

Enough. the gate agent has to take control. have everybody sit down. be patient. take some valium. >> you know which people i hate? the first class snobs that keep bowling me over, trying to get in. >> you're trying to get back there, is that right? okay. moving on. >> speaking of travel, you went yesterday to the leadership institute in colorado. i want to show this picture because greg met up with my dad and my sister. greg, and their friend nicole, angie's friend nicole was there, huge friends of greg. and i would appreciate you mentioning them in the speech and also saying that jasper is d...