prosecutors told the jury that kernell published the information to derail the campaign. live pictures from capitol hill where a senate committee is taking aim at goldman sachs. senators are armed with more than 2 million e-mails and other documents. the company s accused of making big bucks over the collapse of the housing market at the expense of its own investors. moments ago, senator carl levin accused witnesses of being less than forthcoming. we re going to stay here as long as it takes to get the answers. so there may be a strategy and i just noticed very much the same thing that senator collins did about the refusal to give answers, long delays in those answers, but it s not going to work. we re going to stay here as long as it takes to get this information for the public. also today on capitol hill, the senate s planning to try again on a test vote for sweeping financial reform. let s bring in senator sharon
criminal intent when he cracked palin s e-mail password during the 2008 presidential raus. the assistant u.s. attorney says kernell s actions were maliced and he was trying to derail her campaign. kernell could be sentenced up to 50 years in prison. the search for a young dancer from texas who disappeared nearly a year and a half ago has come to a very sad end. 25-year-old laura garza captured national attention when she went missing this december of 2008 after a night out in new york city. nbc s peter alexander joins us now with the details. i even interviewed some of her friends who came searching for her when she first went miss ing. they talked about how she just came here like so many others to follow a dream. she wanted to be a dancer. why she came to new york only months before this happened. this has been an agonizing story from the start. laura garza just vanished after police say she left a new york city nightclub with a man that they even describe as a handsome young guy
mean, from the looks of it, you could throw a rock and hit the runwaivment that s how close this guy got. apparently we re being told again, $100,000 bond, but the feds want him held, even if he makes that bond. what we know about mcvey is that he park part works part-time for the sheriff s office in parking control, and that may be where he got the police scanner, as well as the siren and the stuff to make this car looks like a police vehicle. he is also apparently a big hand radio enthusiast. right now he s in jail, charged with a misdemeanor but the feds want him held indefinitely. megyn: t.g., thank you. meantime the man accused of hacking into sarah palin s e-mail will not take the stand in his own defense. there have been reports this morning he might. attorneys for 22-year-old david kernell say he will not testify at his own identity theft trial. instead, the defense plans to rest its case after
sarah palin s alleged e-mail hacker won t testify in court. the attorney for david kernell tells the associated press the defense will rest its case. the the student is charged with hacking into palin s personal e-mail account. the only witness was an fbi witness. sarah palin testified friday just before the prosecution rested its case. in our other search for stories far and wide today, an ohio man was arrested at a north carolina airport shortly after president obama took off yesterday. that guy s appearing for a judge today because 23-year-old joseph mcvey was taken into custody at the airport charged with going armed in terror of the public. mcvey told police he wanted to see the president, but it
online. bristol testified she got threatening phone calls including from a group of boys saying they were waiting outside her home. people in new zealand, canada, texas, massachusetts, wisconsin, virginia and utah also hacked into the account, including 10 different people 73 times within one hour after david kernell went online, hacked in and changed her password. the defense contend this was nothing more than a college prank and kernel never once tried to cover this tracks. the jury could get this very soon. we could find out if david kernell will be found guilty and get 50 years. megyn: a lot of people watching this. what if somebody could get 50 years in prison for hacking into