i understand that the battles that we as conservatives must fight, because i have been on the front lines. he says he was a severely conservative republican governor of massachusetts, and he also said he knows conservativism, because he s lived it, vowed to repeal president obama s health care act, and that s his position today. agree or disagree, it s to use his own world, severely conservative, but keeping him honest, it doesn t describe his time at the governor of massachusetts and it doesn t jibe with how he himself was describing himself when he was running for the job. this is mitt romney in 2002 when he was running for governor. people realize i m not a partisan republican, but moderate and my views are progressive. not a partisan, moderate, but progressive views. here he is in a campaign debate volunteering the moderate and liberal position on abortion rights. and the chairman stuck a little point in there that is with my views on protecting a woman s right to
i understand that the battles that we as conservatives must fight, because i have been on the front lines. he says he was a severely conservative republican governor of massachusetts, and he also said he knows conservativism, because he s lived it, vowed to repeal president obama s health care act, and that s his position today. agree or disagree, it s to use his own world, severely conservative, but keeping him honest, it doesn t describe his time at the governor of massachusetts and it doesn t jibe with how he himself was describing himself when he was running for the job. this is mitt romney in 2002 when he was running for governor. people realize i m not a partisan republican, but moderate and my views are progressive. not a partisan, moderate, but progressive views. here he is in a campaign debate volunteering the moderate and liberal position on abortion rights. and the chairman stuck a little point in there that is with my views on protecting a woman s right to
i wasn t there. i wasn t present in that crime. cnn s matthew chance was in the courtroom. matthew, walk us through this morning s hearing, will you? reporter: yeah, martin. it was very emotional. amanda knox came in escorted by the guards and looked very stressed indeed, very pale. her head was hung down. she didn t even look at her family, who were gathered in one corner of the courtroom to give her support. her former boyfriend also serving a lengthy prison sentence for the murder of meredith kircher, spoke first. he said they were both innocent. then the big moment came. perhaps the biggest speech of amanda knox s life. she turned to the jury and managed to compose herself because she was in tears, and, you know, make this impassioned plea for them to set her free. she said she wanted her life back. she was tired of being punished for something she didn t do, she said. and so she said it all as well in fluent italian. over the past four years since she s been in priso
get an eyeful and an earful tomorrow, laura. joshua s audio taped confession will be played in court for the very first time. not even the petit family members have heard this before. running approximately two hours long, it tells investigators every detail of what he says happened that night as he places the blame on hayes for escalating the violence in the home. before that tape is played, jurors will hear from the firefighters who first ented the home which means that jurors will most likely be shown the photos of the charred remains. in the hayes case, the photos were not shown to courtroom observers. they were passed around in the jury box. that is expected to happen tomorrow. shep? shep: laura ingle in connecticut, thank you. everybody from the pope to a former f.b.i. director well, not everybody. but a lot of folks, including those two, have asked the state of georgia to spare the life of a death row inmate named troy davis. hours ago, georgia revealed its
ridiculist tonight. breaking news everyone. tonight right now in that building over on the senate side according to democrat harry reid who spoke last hour, nothing is going on. the senate is now adjourned. but the clock is still ticking and the government is running out of money to pay the bills at this moment because the debt limit was not raised back in may, the united states treasury has less cash on hand than apple computer. on wednesday the government will have $23 billion in social security checks to send out and not enough cash to cover them unless it doesn t send out a whole lot of other checks. now, earlier this evening after a string of delays the house narrowly passed speaker john boehner s version of a debt reduction bill. i stuck my neck out a mile to try this. to get an agreement with the president of the united states. i stuck my neck out a mile. and i put revenues on the table. in order to try this. to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are.