homeowners with their mortgages, about 700,000 loans have been permanently modified but that s far fewer than analysts hoped for when the program started in 2009, jon. jon: james rosen, thank you. jenna: on the housing market, earlier we spoke to former administrator to the governor former governor tim pawlenty. any candidate in the race, including president obama, i unveiled the former place of employment, university of chicago, it includes significant reductions in business taxes, individual taxes, other incentives to get health care reform, energy reform, government pensions reformed, all of the things, regulatory reform, all of the things that business leaders and job providers are saying that we should do to get the economy moving again, and if that happens that will put more money into peoples pockets, more jobs will be available, they ll be better able able to afford mortgages down the road and get new mortgages down the road. jenna: is that the key, is it about jobs? tim
girl the answer to that question is yes. there are huge, huge holes in the state s case, so big that if i was standing in the middle of the courtroom i d be able to see cuba through them. the proeubs is that there s tremendous reasonable doubt. and i think the way to defend this case is to go after the weakness in the state s case. after you ve tried a lot of cases you realize that less is more. pick that defense, throw them all this other stuff up on the board and seeing what sticks just today hraoudz the real defense that you need to remember. i don t think it s going to help. jon: mark, let s get your take on that. he s right but too late my friend. the defense didn t have fred advising them or me so they stood up in opening statement and to explain her pea czar behavior, all the lying, the partying when they are child either tragically drowned or went missing, they said, here is how it happened, so they shifted the burden over to the defense. and now the jurors are expecting them
firefighters there say they are on the job. hopefully we ve put some new divisions up here. we are going to try and scout, find ways around this thing with doizers and hand lines and stop the forward spread of this today. reporter: back at the monument fire conditions are as follows, 95 degrees today, low humidity but light wind from the north, northwest which is good according to firefighters because it means it s pushing the fire into itself. they say the next two days are critical because winds could pick up again on friday. jenna, there are still thousands of people who are evacuated, but they are slowly trickling back into their homes and we hope to see more of that happen today. back to you. jenna: not soon enough. anita, thank you very much. jon: well it s sort of a tip toe act with mother nature along the swollen missouri river. six flood control dams playing a part in a complex effort to ease the flooding along the longest river. we are not far from the garrison
perspective. nobody can nail down exactly when it was there, when it wasn t. the defense has narrowed down the issue to the case as to how the child died. was it an accidental drowning or was it as the prosecution has alleged? and they ve dug that hole for them, you know, and they have, but at the end of the day your job as a defense lawyer is to point to the reasonable doubt. and as much as it pains me. you are correct. there is no evidence that shows that casey killed the little girl. that s the problem with this case. nothing, not a fingerprint on the decal sheet, nothing. there are definitely challenges, without question that the prosecution has, without question there is insufficient evidence for them to find beyond a reasonable doubt that this was first-degree murder. jon: two experts say she should not get on the stand. we ll let you guys continue the argument after we are off. thanks. jenna: we have this fox news alert just into our newsroom,
beginning next month. the big question is how many? while military brass prefer a gradual drawdown starting with a few thousand troops, a bi-partisan group of lawmakers wants a much bigger number than that to start coming home. listen to what democratic senator jeff merkley of oregon told happe happening now. jenna: give me a number. we are talking about initial reductions of 50 to 25,000 troops. carl levin has stepped in and said it should be at least 15,000, roughly half of the surge number. jon: michael ohanlan is a senior fellow for politics studies at the brookings institute. what is your number. a few thousand is the number if you want to keep building up the afghan army and police and stabilizing the country. you can go to a much deeper cut if you want to discard the