their sights on the media. jon: erick erickson, juan williams, fox news decided not to attend that meeting as long as it is off the record. thank you, both. thank you, jon. jenna: let s check in on the markets, find out how our money is doing today. stocks are trading higher on the dow as we learn the number of americans filing first-time unemployment sup this week, higher than economists expected. there is the number. a little word of caution on the job market but overall stocks are doing good, driven particularly by the financial sector. time for the spotlight on small business and today talk a little bit about timing. we caution about the bad weather in the middle of the country, we ll talk to a company in the business of tracking big weather events like tornadoes. we have michael isles, weather technologies. we first learned about your company when we were covering the horrible tornado. not too far from where you are right now in moore, oklahoma. and you were able to calculate th
we have a criminal defense attorney joining us, and tad nelson a former prosecutor. tad, these pleas for money are not necessarily unusual, but does it affect the case at all? does it hurt the client? well, obviously it s going to hurt the client, but you know, jon from a prosecutor point of view you know it doesn t make a lick o of difference to me as a prosecutor. i ve got a case to prepare, i ve got to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. it s my burden of production and persuasion and i know my witnesses, i ve paid for my experts, i ve done my due diligence. i ve got my case to go. now, as far as what the defense is doing, and what they are asking for, that never concerned me, it never bothered me. i played my game, and i let them play their game, jon. jon: it s all going to come down to the jury selection, isn t it joseph? without a doubt. but it s not uncommon nor for a prosecutor not to care about issues regarding money because they have the funding. the reality is if you wan
good lawyers that are public defenders but they are swamped with a lot of cases and obviously not as good as the lawyer that zimmerman has. if you look back in the last ten years most of the big cases that they get off have well-paid, well-e educated top quality lawyer. there is a relationship to how much money you spend and what you guess. i promise you that, jon. jon: originally the police declined to even charge zimmerman because they said under florida s stand your ground law he was covered. would you expect that to be one of the arguments in court in. without a doubt. there is so much evidence that needs to get out there. it s not as simple as putting a witness on the stand and getting them to say the magic words. there is a lot of preparation that goes into that, and that s where the money aspect comes into play. i don t want to make this case all about money, but what should come out is the truth, and the way you get the truth out is by having the ability to spend the correct
that really, the chaos is just at an extreme level inside syria? what are your thoughts about those reports and what s your experience? yeah, we ve been seeing this for a long time in syria. there s, and in areas that have been controlled by the syrian opposition, one of the problems is that there s really no centralized leadership. we have these bodies, aleppo has the most, well-developed example where they actually developed this kind of a representative government where they had people from each kind of district of the opposition-controlled area go to outside of syria and elect these councilmen. now that the council doesn t really do anything because it doesn t have money. it would like to. it has a lot of plans but doesn t have resources. without any kind of central government in these areas, what you re seeing happening is factionalism. a lot of these different groups that are kind of vying for power, control or
you know, who will be called in to testify, they need to be paid. oh, absolutely. and you d be shocked at what they are getting an hour. you know i watched the jodi arias and i think i even talked to you about jodi arias, she had paid all these experts that did a horrible job, and that s the scary thing about an expert. if you don t work with them, if you don t spend the time with them that costs so much money when they come to court they look like a buffoon. and that s what happened to jodi arias. jon: what when a jury selection expert, tad? i mean there are those, obviously, we ve talked to them many times before on this program. would that be one of the first places you d spend money? absolutely. yeah, absolutely. there are some of the best in the country that have done that. you definitely need that. heights amazing how they understand their craft and it s so important. like you said earlier when you were talking to joe this is going to come down to the jury and what the jury t