militant group that may be as big a threat to the united states in afghanistan as al qaeda or the taliban. the obama administration appears ready to formally call the haqqani network what so many people believe it is, a terrorist organization. our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is at the state department, she s been digging on this story. what are you learning? wolf your know, the political pressure here in the united states has been building to put the haqqani network on that list of terrorist organizations. but what really put force behind the argument is a violent action by the group itself. reporter: violent attacks in afghanistan, american blood spilled. haqqani operatives planned and conducted that truck bomb attack as well as the assaults on our embassy. reporter: now u.s. officials tell cnn, secretary of state hillary clinton is on the verge of designating the al qaeda linked haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization. one official says,
ted rowlands was inside the courtroom when that audio was played. ted, it was stunning to hear. i can t imagine what the reaction was like inside the courtroom where michael jacks jackson s family was attending. reporter: to be honest, drew, i was not inside the courtroom during that audio, but i think anybody who heard it was shocked. and the prosecutors used it for one reason, to show that dr. conrad murray knew what he was doing to michael jackson, knew the drugs he was administering to michael jackson had this type of effect. they got that recording from murray s own cell phone so murray was recording jackson in if that distorted state. i mean, you could hear him just trying to slur the words. this was part of an hour and a half that the prosecution went through today in their opening statements with the jury. basically, they said murray was incompetent and that he dropped the ball in leaving jackson alone, not only by giving him the propofol and other drugs, but he l
in the case, dr. murray gave detectives the following time line. 1:30 a.m., murray gives jackson a ten milligram valium. 2:00, murray injected jackson with two milligrams of lorazepam, another sleep aid. another hour later, another two milligrams of versed. 5:00, jackson is sill awake and he gives him more lore razepam. after nine hours of trying to sleep, jackson is still awake and murray gives him an iv drip of 25 milligrams of propofol. where dr. murray was from 10:40 until noon when the coroner s report says jackson was found unresponsive is unclear. it s the only window of time that someone else, including jackson himself, could have administered the fatal dose of propofol. prosecutors say the evidence points towards conrad murray as the person responsible for the overdose, but chernoff maintains
jackson s home. the defense wants them tested. those tests could use up the little bit of residue left on the syringes. dr. murray did not cause the death of michael jackson. ed chernoff says when dr. murray went to work as michael jackson s personal doctor, he had no idea that jackson was in chernoff s words addicted to propofol. murray started giving jackson the powerful drug in jackson s home. doctor after doctor says this should never be used outside a clinical setting, outside of a hospital or a clinic. the fact that the circumstances may be unusual does that make it egregious. that alone does not make it egregious. according to the coroner s report, jackson had the same a propofol in his body when he died as is used for major
was still awake, so murray told police he tried another drug, a sedative. that didn t work either. what jackson really wanted according to murray was the anesthetic propofol. murray told investigators jackson repeatedly asked for the drug that final night but insisted he repeatedly denied the singer. murray claims he was actually trying to wean jackson off of propofol at the time fearing he had formed an addiction. ed chernoff is murray s attorney. he doesn t have any specialized training in addiction recovery, that s true. who else is addicted to a drug like propofol? there s no protocol for how to wean someone off a drug like that. the theory that conrad murray was trying to break michael j k jackson of a propofol addiction in the last hours of his life is kind of an interesting theory. there doesn t seem to be any