to perhaps continue as we go through closing arguments and into the deliberations beginning this afternoon. thomas? nbc s ron allen in bellefonte, pennsylvania. ron, thanks so much. joining me here in studio is criminal defense attorney, former federal prosecutor, jay fahey. great to have you here. as ron was pointing out and we were talking about in break this seems like it has gone by at a lightning pace they have been able to get this far and the fact the jury could be handed this case by lunch time. the judge though throwing out two of the counts relating to a i kaiser around victim number four, saying the charges did not bear out. is that a sign that part of the prosecution s case was weak or that out of these 52 charges, they may have overreached in trying to get them all to stick? it is more the overreaching. prosecutor of the-put everything they can into an indictment t has to be sustainable at least from the grand jury because the grand jury vote on the indictment. but pro
s.e.c. is testifying in a 3-2 verdict which is very rare for the s.e.c. to proceed with an indictment t comes out with this. it seems fishy. i don t believe in coincidences. i think they wanted to get this out there during that discussion that don t mean it s wrong. and it can be both the s.e.c. is supposed to be independent. they are independent and are trying to show the world they enforce the law and they are entitled to use cases that have a general more prophylactic impact to say to the world this is what happens. so it s not wrong for them to make a case and bring it out at a moment when it will have the greatest general deterrence effect. that s what they did. is it a strong case? separate conversation. did they want to get it out there now? i have no doubt they did. on that note of agreement, we will take a break. we ll be back. are real jobs going to come back that will increase need yam income? i think a longer-term trend line in terms of competitiveness and creat