for all three of those american hikers. hateful last words. i have no regrets. his texas execution overshadowed by the one in georgia last week. the question is, did america learn anything from james byrd s dragging death? and another trial of the century? this is it. this is the final curtain call. michael jackson s doctor goes on trial this week. we introduce you to the jury deciding conrad murray s fate right here, right now cnn. good evening. i m don lemon. you are in the cnn newsroom. president obama begins the new week on the west coast. his trip amounts to a political two-for. he s raising millions in campaign cash from big money donors and using his remarks to push for his jobs proposal. the president started in seattle a few hours ago. then he headed to northern california to tap the wallets in silicon valley. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is traveling with the president tonight and joins us live from san jose. jessica, good evening.
for all three of the american hikers. hateful last word. i had no regret. his texas execution overshadowed by the one in georgia last week. did america learn anything from jam jam james byrd s dragging death? another trial of the century? this is it. the final curtain call. michael jackson s doctor goes on trial this week. we introduce you to the jury deciding conrad murray s fate. right here, right now on cnn. good evening, i m don lemon. you re in the cnn newsroom. president obama begins the new week on the west coast. his trip amounts to a political twofer. he s raising millions in campaign cash from big-money donors and he s using his remarks to push for his jobs proposal. the president started in seattle a few hours ago and then he headed to northern california to tap the wallets in silicon valley. jessica wellen is traveling with the president tonight. what was his message to his supporters and the stops today? hey, don, he is rallying the old democratic
they believe it s a mass grave not related to the revolution but the final resting place of more than 1200 prisoners slouterred back in 1996 but there are some doubts surrounding the discovery. medics with cnn staff on the scene say the bones don t appear to be human. excavation of the site will give more details. the ntc is asking for international help with identifying remains. closing arguments are under way in italy in the appeal of amanda knox sentenced to 26 years in prison for killing her roommate. the defense claims dna evidence used to convict knox is unreliable. the prosecution says independent experts ignored other key evidence, which reports that knox said in a letter she was worried but that she was thinking of what she would do once she was back in the u.s. after more than two years in iranian prison two freed american are calling their trial on charges of spying a sham. josh fattal and shane bauer say they were hostages. fattal, bauer and fellow hiker sarah
race and the state of his country. that s stated policy. publicly stated. is to do whatever it takes to see to it that obama only serves one term. screw the country. we re going to do whatever we can to get this black man out of here. and the morgan freeman you really don t know. play golf with one hand. really? yeah. i can drive a ball 180 yards. this man can do just about anything. i ll have to ask him to do me a personal favor. i m going to do this one more time. but after this i get paid. right? this is piers morgan tonight. morgan freeman is a man of great stature, a man of great talent, and as i ve come to realize, he s also a great man of his word. a few months ago he promised he d join me in the studio face to face for a one-on-one interview, and here you are, morgan freeman. yay. an actor keeping his word. yes. i m stunned. yeah. we won t talk about how it came about. we won t. i know it s got nothing to do with me. everything to do with
future is hanging in the balance. let s go straight to italy. kurt knox is amanda knox s father. he s live in perugia. good to see you back on here again with us. you re where the appeals hearing is being held. looking at some of the video at amanda in court, she appears more thin. how is she holding up? is he eating? is she sleeping? well, you know, it s been very tough for her. you know, especially these last three hearings. it s been, you know, everything against her. so, you know, with literally her life hanging in the balance of what the decision is in the courtroom, it s very tough to sleep. she has been thinning down a bit too. were you, kurt, in court today when that lawyer called your daughter a sex-loving she-devil? yeah. you know, it was this particular lawyer, you know, even during the first trial essentially did the same thing. it was extraordinarily hard to listen to. it was even harder for amanda because, you know, she hears it all in italian and can un