each of his three female captives a cake on her annual abduction day, thereby forcing her to celebrate the fact of her kidnapping and decade-long confinement. we found out the alleged captor treated his wife much the same, tying her up in the basement after they were married. moments ago we learned the charges the prosecuting attorney will seek. we ll get to those in just a moment. first, msnbc s craig melvin is in cleveland for us. reporter: chris, they are expecting between 100 and 200. you have to have the primary charge that is eligible, in the case, murder, murder of an unborn fetus. the attempted murder could be that they re worried about causation, so we know from the victim s description, she was beaten, and it caused a miscarriage. we can t prove it was why there was a miscarriage, so that is why they are calling it attempted. we have charges put out there, yesterday and again today, more definition coming today. i don t know what the role of a defense att
knew about the terrorist attack. that s why you hear so much about the video. was it the video that spurred this attack, or was it islamic terrorists? you re still getting into the question of spin. the only thing that matters to the american people, was anyone derelict enough to let somebody die who was a good guy? that s an issue with most people. humans, that is. thank you, jeremy peters, from the new york times. up next, the reaction we ve been waiting for to elizabeth colbert busch s loss from her brother. got to pronounce it right. stephen colbert in this case. this is hardball. the place for politics. 45 minutes it took me to get to the airport.
that tells you everything you need to know. he had 15 opponents. he had because winning the primary is akin to winning the general election if you re republican and if you re a democrat, you get to be the sacrificial lamb. you start taking a lot of money from outside, you re not from south carolina. you re from new york. it reinforces the message that sanford was sending out, that this is not him against elizabeth colbert-busch, it s him against nancy pelosi. and he got it and she was not able to distinguish herself. gene, you and i have been through this the same amount of years. why are republicans always better at this, ted kennedy really running or tip o neil. this ability to villainize a person.
right of the republican party because he knew he was running in massachusetts could. colbert-busch have done more to distinguish herself from the democrats in the house and is that necessary? is that something that democrats ought to get more comfortable al franken runs locally, doesn t do the national media, doesn t have to run, not that it s not a right wing state. he s won because he runs in the state for the state of the state. democrat been married for 40 years wins every time. number one, he s a very good mayor but number two he s established his own identity. we need more tommys out there. why michael bloomberg makes conservatives nervous. this is hardball, the place for politics.
sanford clobbered opponent elizabeth colbert-busch. here is sanford weighing in on the victory speech. some guy came up to me and said, you look a lot like lazaras. and i say that because if it was just about limited government, this campaign would have been easily won a long time ago. his victory came at a heavily concerted district. what are the lessons learned here? dee dee myers and eugene robinson. we noticed this polling here on hardball without any moral judgment and the guy seemed to be picking up speed and whatever happened with that embarrassing speech where she nailed him, you wasted our money, you went down to argentina and that seemed to be a direct hit and then something happened. what was it?