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japan, one arresuspected of mur reporter: we are learning more about the case. tokyo police were holding him on different charges but now holding him on murder charges, looking to advance their case against this unidentified man, unidentified because he s still considered a minor under japanese law. for the minor of fur dg long, an irish exchange student found dead in a tokyo hotel room, strangled to death. the tokyo police say the only other person in the room was the 19-year-old. they are moving forward on a case against another american, blackston, an l.a. native. we spoke to his attorney and he says the tokyo prosecutor s office has officially charged him with groping furlong s friend on the night of her murder. the attorney says that these charges are not valid, that he intends to fight on behalf of his client trying to get his client off. he does not feel there s any sort of validity to this. the attorney also says that at this point he could face, if found guil ....
And the current narrative about progress misses the opportunity to connect and point forward. what carville talks about is having empathy. he worked for bill clinton. is barack obama capable of that empathy. he s very disconnected from the ordinary people and the congress. this is a guy who basically takes his own counsel and most of the positions that he s taken have been his own positions. now he has to go out and defend them. it s not the campaign he d like to run but at the same time there aren t policies or successes that he can go out and make his case in the country with. bill: could he be effective or not. there is no question he will give some great speeches and inspire his base. whether he ll convince enough to give him a majority i don t think so. bill:ed rollins, thank you for your time. seven minutes past the hour. martha: we are awaiting a verdict in the roger clemens retrial. closing arguments yesterday in ....
Now. it will take a number of different directions. i know you ve got to get to the radio. lynn sweet, let me show what carville said, as well. he says the voters are very sophisticated about the character of the economy and know who is mainly responsible for what went wrong and hungry to hear the president talk about the future. they will nope we are in a new normal where life is a struggle and convincing them that thing are good enough for those who found jobs is a fool s errands. basically he s saying there s too much looking back what tim pawlenty referred to as whining and complaining. that s not the language carville used but he s saying you have to look ahead if you want the middle class, people who live in chicago like you and i did to feel better here. the middle america out there, if you will. well, what s remarkable about what carville said is that he said it. he certainly has multiple chabls into the campaign and to the democrats in the white house to say what he wanted ....
What i m hearing from big donors, there s a real hesitation. but to go back to what carville has been saying, there is more about weakness, division, fractured party, unable to find a candidate. not a high turn out. that s the kind of thing that can hurt someone like mitt romney in a head-on against barack obama. national polls will show, i think weakening of his position. that will play back into this. it just looks like a party that is holding its nose. and saying, all right. we haven t got a better option. we will just may have to barack obama tonight will feel good. he is a guy who should be in trouble. if you look at numbers and look at his performance and you know, look at 45% approval rating, has been for months let s bring under some republicans here. ari, are you depressed tonight? no, i think is nonsense. i think people are way overplaying the impact of one meaningless caucus night. ....
is getting ready to fly it texas to reassess whether he should bother, whether he should continue in new hampshire and south carolina. michele bachmann coming in sixth. she says she will continue but we will see if she does. jon huntsman in new hampshire. we are waiting it speak with the chair of the republican committee right now that is going to announce that one final precinct. we are going to speak to that precinct captain shortly. we will try to find out what is going on. has there been a snag, a snafu, a hanging chad. we don t know what is going on. but one precinct would colorado make the difference between who is number one, number two and how much of a gap there is. let s go over and talk to all of our contributors and friends. anderson, i think we will get that precinct captain pretty soon, on the phone, and we will hear what the problem is, if there is a problem. because we want to know. who is the winner. i was going to say, what do you want to say to that ....