aeg on the defense. a jury is in the first stages of the selection process, will examine the deals between the parties. and decide whether aeg is liable. whether the corporation should pay jackson s mother and children as much as $40 billion for the loss of their loved one. outside the courthouse the media invasion is under way from camera crews to fans with blogs. i have about 50,000 followers on various pages on facebook. and hard core michael jackson fans about 40,000 on twitter. reporter: unlike the criminal case, the lawsuit is expected to get personal. the jury questionnaire asks about drug dependency whether people can choose to stop if they want to. they will be taking michael jackson s life and basically dragging it through the dirt of the dark side. reporter: court filings showing aeg blaming jackson of his own poor health. and they accuse aeg of pushing jackson too hard in their drive for profits. were they looking out for michael jackson s well being and
around. but these four guys don t have that, dr. ablow, they don t have that, and yet they failed to do anything to report this man, and their failure, their decision to protect sandusky directly led to the rape of additional boys. reporter: people find each other in this world, megyn, these are character-disordered men, these are people who place profit and reputation, their own, above the well-being of others literally life and lymph others. these are people even if you told them, listen, i think these kids could be subject to drug dependency, depression, suicide in the future, i think they would have said, we ve got a game coming up, we ve got to win that game, why? because my career is on the line. you know, it s the opposite of heroism, it s one thing to teach men how to, you know, run through blockers when they are running fill tilt a full tilt as you, but that s nothing like
reporter: it is noon in the neo-natal intensive care unit, at east tennessee children s hospital. and baby grayson, just 48 hours old, is shaking again. he s tremoring. reporter: grayson was born with a serious drug dependency because his pregnant mother was addicted to painkillers. now he gets morphine every three hours to cut the pain of withdrawal. grayson was brought here from a nearby hospital to this special unit for detoxing newborns. right now there are 23 tiny patients here going through withdrawal mostly from prescription pills like oxycontin, vicodin or percocet. good morning. reporter: carla saunders is the head nurse of this special unit. they will have really bad tremors, really bad jitters, very bad irritability, vomiting, diarrhea, cramping. reporter: ashton, just 19 years old, is grayson s mom. he has done so good today.
health issue just as sure as drug dependency is which might clear the space for this other conversation. do you get this sense outside the federal government that the people of this country are more prepared for that type of a conversation? well, that s why we re willing to take the risk that we re taking by doing this show, because we re confident that our fellow citizens, once they understand what it is that we re doing, are going to support us and stand up for us. like my brother said, 77% of americans in a recent cbs news poll supports safe access to medical cannabis. the federal government, once again, like in your previous two segments, is way behind, way behind the people, way behind. i mean, there s a conversation for another day just on the federal government s ability in general to actually understand the intent and desire of the people. which goes to money and politics and a whole other i ll get you really worked up. there s no mystery about that, because in califo
the prosecution s theory, that perhaps michael jackson could have administered some type of dose, somehow contributed to his own death megyn: does it not help your argument, the defense argument that michael jackson was a bizarre man and we all know that. and we believe of had a serious drug problem. absolutely. that s it. that s what the defense will continue to do, show him as a desperate addict. we are not talking about a mopt or father or brother or sister, we are talking about his physician who was paid money to take care of him. why wasn t he doing that, mark? megyn: they will make the argument the personal physician should have known of the drug dependency and not left the client alone. the argument is he s trying to wean him off. no good deed goes unpunished. megyn: we ll live to argue the