the key to everybody that s on death row right now. the west memphis three in their own words. it does something to you when you see something like that. it cracks you inside. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. the case of the west memphis three began in may 1993 when the naked bodies of three 8-year-old boys were found in a ditch in west memphis, arkansas. the boys, stevie branch, michael moore and christopher byers had been hog-tied with their own shoelaces. three local teenagers were charged with the crime amid allegations of satanic rituals. damien echols, jason baldwin and jessie misskelley. they were convicted of those murders. ex echols was sentenced to death. damien was sentenced to death and the others to life in prison. as the years passed, the west memphis three got attention from famous people, last month, after nearly two decades behind bars, echols, baldwin and misskelley walked free. it was a controversial legal maneuver. more in a moment o
looking for work. and for the president to get up and say listen, the time is coming, we re improving, it s tough to sell to them because they ve been out of work for so long. so it really is a tough task. he s trying to get it through the needle. but we ll see. and we ve got an nbc news/ wall street journal poll on the government s highest priority. and the poll comes up with 35% saying that jobs and the economy are the highest priority. 20% saying deficit spending is the highest priority. national security/terrorism 12%. so they do seem to be getting through on jobs and the economy being at least a high priority. well, that s the thing. and what s frustrating for progressives is there s this huge sort of impetus to address the deficit in government spending. that is the political cause celebre. you see it actually in england but you see it domestically as well. and that sort of contrasts to the idea that you need to actually continue to stimulate the economy, which of course req
and i just when you were watching it, i was listening to the words. and it was oh, my god, you were looking at her face. said she s not keeping up with this. i just then shook my head and walked away. this is self-inflicted. reporter: clinton said she was taking responsibility for mistakes and then insisted she did nothing wrong. isn t leadership about taking responsibility? look, ed, i take responsibility. look, i just told jeff in retrospect this didn t turn out to be convenient at all. and i regret that this has become such a cause celebre. what i did was legally permitted. number one, first and foremost. reporter: today the clinton camp tried to do damage control as democratic socialist senator bernie sanders continues to gain ground. the press coverage of her poll numbers is pretty skewed. reporter: while clinton abruptly ended her news conference with this. nobody talks to me about it
controversy again. our own ed henry holding her feet to the fire, especially when she tried to defend her private email account and server. listen to what happened. about taking responsibility i take responsibility. look, i just told jeff in retrospect this didn t turn out to be convenient at all and i regret that this has become such a cause celebre. ed, you re not listening to me. ed is always listening and he s live in las vegas. hillary s performance yesterday even has democrats, some of them, worried about her campaign today, right? reporter: yeah. absolutely, gretchen. i listen to you and your team, and that s what matters. i think the bottom line is that you have a political story today saying that after her performance in the news conference yesterday here in las vegas you have democrats, folks in her own party, campaign donors, strategists, people inside the white house saying what in the world is going on, that she s getting basic