apart joe s answer which was horrible. we are all products of our environment. that means everyone would end up in jail. you said if we all had similar environments don t you think most criminals come from the same environment? jay i think they are bad people. you wouldn t say most criminals come from the inner city? most come from single mothers. really? all the single mothers all the single mothers i think you will agree on my other point is which is why this leads to my conclusion once you have committed a violent crime. i think death penalty. i will give chuck coleson one year of prison ministries. if they can turn them into a person, then death. wow. there is a lot of scientology maybe.
but my sense is that one of them involves this long general election. is the public losing interest in the way we cover the presidential campaign? the justice department is investigating national security leaks to the new york times and critics blame the obama team for spilling some of the secrets that put the administration in a favorable light. a firestorm today as republicans claim the white house has been leaking national security secrets to the press, to make president obama look good. david sanger, the author of one of those stories, will be here. plus walter cronkite was the most trusted man in america. and that s the way it is, friday, march 6th, 1981. but sometimes he did things that were rather untrustworthy. would that have gotten him fired today? we ll ask his biographer, doug brinkley. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. remember when the republican primaries were going strong and we all bounced from bachmann to trump to perry to cain an
good morning. i m randy kay. we start this morning with a look ahead. tomorrow former presidential candidate john edwards heads to federal court. prosecutors say edwards used nearly $1 million in campaign contributions to sdooef the public. they say he was hiding an affair and a child. the mistress is expected to be the star in the trial. she has imunit. edwards and his attorneys say he did nothing wrong. we ll have much more on the details of this case in about ten minutes. a major figure from the watergate scandal has died. chuck coleson. he was the first of richard nixon s aides to be he took his punishment, seven months in prison, and turned his life around. here he is in 1999. we ve healed a great deal from what happened in watergate, but it took a long period of time for people to recognize what they had done wrong, i apologize for what i did and to the people hi offended and after ligue prison in the mid 1970s colson founded the prison fellowship. it s now a