critics wondering why the justice department and congress would waste millions of tax dollars to investigate whether the baseball player used steroids. shannon bream is live in washington as the case proceeds. shannon? reporter: well, as you know, jon, this is the second time the government has mounted a case against roger clemens. it s estimated that it s already cost several million dollars to this point, and there is concern today that andy pettitte s testimony has thrown a wrench in the government s case. until this peek pettitte had week pettitte had sounded firm in his testimony that clemens had told him he had used a banned substance. on cross-examination wednesday, pettitte admits there was a, quote, 50/50 chance he has misunderstood. when you have these big, high-profile cases and a jury doesn t convict or a judge throws it out for some reason, it really raises questions about whether the government is
back. the state said sit would save $77 million a year. it s unclear where that number came from. but experts say it appears to be scene overestimation. the governor rick scott saying drug testing welfare recipients is a common sentence way to insure that welfare dollars are used to help children and get parents back to work. the governor obviously disaggrieves with the decision and he ll valuate his options regarding when to appeal. that not from governor scott but from his office. appeals are pending in this. megyn: they will continue to litigate this out as the case proceeds. we ll be right back. to make our floor
400,000 since april. that is too high. economists say to make a dent in the unemployment rate. federal authorities have charged a young massachusetts physics grad in a terror plot. agents say rezwan ferdaus planned to use remote control airlines to hit the u.s. capitol and the pentagon. they would have been filled with a plastic explosive. the fbi says that they arrested him, he s an american citizen, after a lengthy undercover operation. john mccain leading a delegation of republican senators on a trip to libya today. the group has been meeting with libya s national transition council, the rebel leaders that drove moammar gadhafi from power. a spokesman says the council knows gadhafi s general location. senator mccain talked to cnn from tripoli. i think that the people of libya, the ones that i ve talked to, would like to catch him alive. they would like to see him on trial for the horrendous crimes that he has committed. every few days they come across another grave.
family and bin laden s family were friends, he made a paper airplane from one of the legal pads and shot it across the courtroom at one of his co-conspirators, and when ali opened up that plane, he started laughing. and i wanted to find out what was written, and i later learn learned it had been written the flight numbers for 9/11 or the tail numbers for those jets. and can that moment where i saw that plane fly across the courtroom from one of the 9/11 conspirators was really a window on to how dark these people are, and i think that we would do well to remember that as the case proceeds. jenna: wow. that leaves, i think, all of us speechless. reporter: yeah. it s quite a story. jenna: catherine, just real quick, are we starting all over again? reporter: yes, we will. jenna: so everything s new. reporter: what happened in november 2009 after eric holder announced they would be going to federal courts is that the
of a. at least in their daughter s case. they don t have the first amendment over there in italy. those guys, the prosecutes are indicting novelists, bloggers and now indicted mom and dad. the best advice anyone can give mr. and mrs. knox is don t get on the plane to italy. you know, what s going on there, as richard said, is that the prosecutors are going after everybody. unfortunately they re not going to be able to sit with their daughter as this case proceeds. i want to move on to arizona and an arizona jury, a latino man and his daughter were killed, ashanna ford has been convicted. should she get the death penalty? avery, start with you. the jury had an opportunity to consider all the evidence. she was the one who set up the scheme to bust into the trailer,