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The award that it got too, but maybe folks missed at this time first time around. check it out. >> it won a best adapted screen play for jeffrey fletcher. that was the more emotional speech. gabby was nominate and give a great performance. monique was one of the best acting performances of the year. monique was great and certainly deserved her oscar. she had an emotional speech. precious is worth seeing. i thought some of it was over the top and a little hammered on the nail, but certainly worth seeing. monique's performance is so surprising because you don't expect monique would deliver that ...

I was pleased to see "avatar" not win. i'm not trying to jump on it, but i like -- >> talk about you losing the desire for the movie. go ahead. >> i'm glad was nominated, but i think "the hurt locker" and inglorious bastereds were more worthy and "avatar" lost momentum and i'm glad katherine bigelow won and jeffrey fletcher won for screen play for precious. i think the right decisions were made. i was pleased. i thought alec baldwin and steve martin did a nice job. i think most of the hosts have done a good job. chris rock did a nice job. david letterman did a nice job. it's a hard job to do. ...

And once the investigation is completed, because it's going through the legal system, the tapes would absolutely become public under florida's shine laws. the trainer's family reportedly consulting with the same lawyer who successfully represented the widow of dale earnhardt. his autopsy photos remained private. he walked out of a bar in the french quarter in new orleans and that's the last time anyone ever saw this oil executive alive. but tonight a body turns up in the mississippi river and the mystery has only deepened. plus the man charged with trying to blackmail david letterman claimed...

Gerry shargel. >> it was sort of an impossible case. >> he was guilty. >> right. >> and he's blowing smoke, he's trying to defend his client, which is certainly his job. but, i mean, in fairness to shargel and halderman, this was an odd case. the classic case is you give me $2 million or i will kill your daughter. that's a classic extortion, those people deserve to go to prison for a long time. this is give me money or i'll write a screen play. it's certainly extortion, certainly illegal, he should go to prison. but, you know, crimes are different. not everything deserves the death penalty. an...

I'm david shuster reporting live from washington. we begin with some breaking news. guilty, that's the plea from the man involved in the david letterman extortion plot. let's get to nbc news correspondent michelle franzen who joins us now from new york. >> reporter: in the last hour, robert joe halderman pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted larceny charges. stemming from last october when he demanded money from david letterman. $2 million from david letterman to make sure that he was going to give him a screen play, making sure he purchased that screen play to keep quiet about affairs tha...