it s so true, and again, you wonder how that s playing in the jury s mind. regardless of how you feel about cindy and george, whether they told the truth, what s going on, they were doting grand parents. this man, by all accounts, wanted to kill himself over his granddaughter. casey could have left a note saying, i m gon see ya. martha: it appears that way. you think of the video of cindy anthony helping the little girl into the pool, and i thought to myself okay, here we go, folks. let s listen in. you let the record reflect that the defendant is present along with counsel for the defendant. both sides ready to proceed? it s been brought to my attention that the jury has reached a verdict. state? the state s ready to proceed, your honor. defense? defense is ready. to those in the gallery, please, do not express any signs of approval or disapproval upon the reading of the verdict.
chloroform, and the chloroform searches are the strongest pieces of evidence presented by the state. jose baez was trying to raise reasonable doubt. he put on a very strong closing argument on sunday. pretty soon we ll see who the jurors believed. martha: indeed we will. phil thank you so much. you will be with us obviously throughout this next 30 minutes or so when we expect that we will be getting a verdict in this case, and, you know, you think about prosecutor jeff ashton, basically his argument was that nobody tries to cover up an accidental death by making it look like a homicide, by putting a body in two plastic bags and a laundry bag and covering it in duct tapes and putting it in the woods. that was one of the strongest things put forth by prosecutor jeff ashton in the final moments of this case. also the woman prosecutor that phil was talking about she came out at the very end of the whole thing and said, whose life was better after this was done? that was also a very weighty
extraordinary one. shepard smith will be live at cape canaveral for friday s liftoff. and we will join him friday for that. we are looking forward to that. there is new controversy over the banning of words like god and jesus at funerals at a tech as cemetery. this is quite a story. we started looking at this last week. more than a thousand people packed the grounds of the houston national cemetery on independence daypro testing that policy and calling for the cemetery s director to step down immediately. jaime colby has the latest on the details on all of this. reporter: the story we heard about on america live. there were war vets, clergy, ordinary citizens, including moms of military personnel who gave their lives. i have to send it back to you, breaking news. martha: that s right, jaime, we are about to get a verdict. that is the news that is just coming into our urgent cue here. we knew we would be getting this. didn t expect it this quickly, to be honest. there is video testimo
if they do, that means two days from today, thursday or friday depends on how the judge wants to do it, then we begin the death penalty phase. we have jose baez just walking into the courtroom. that was a live picture of him entering, a man who most people had never heard of before. some people claim casey anthony could have had any defense attorney that she wanted, and she had jose baez. a lot of criticism of the way he handled this case throughout really, including the discussions many of us had with him before the trial began, arthur. i really shy away from criticizing attorneys in his position, you know why, martha? we know maybe 10% about what s going on. the other 90% is all behind the scenes; his relationship with his client, what she s telling him, how involved she is, it is so unless you walk this that person s shoes, you should really hesitate before you take
martha. martha: no doubt there will be a lot of questions. we ll be watching that. mike thank you so much. mike emanuel at the white house. a leading house democrat says that it is all about the wording for tax increases, and he says that s why we re seeing a deadlock on the debt deal right now. the senate is back at work today as the nation inches closer to that august 2nd default date. lawmakers are back trying to work some kind of deal here over the course of this week. congressman jim clyburn of south carolina says that many republicans signed this no new taxes pledge and consider eliminating tax breaks the same as hiking taxes. he also suggested this a short term deal at this point may be the only viable option right now. the house is back to work at that once again tomorrow, so we ll be talking that of course like hawks all through the week, hawks no pun intended. the white house trying one more time to bail out thousands of homeowners. the department of housing and