diminished. according to politico.com, the president will not commit to helping democrats save his old seat. in that race, democrat ginoulias is trailing in the polls against mark kirk. this prompted a meeting between dick durbin and rahm emanuel last week at the white house. sources familiar with the meeting says it appears that the white house is more comfortable losing the seat than putting the president on the campaign trail. not long after obama mania swept across the country and it appears that the anointed one doesn t have enough pull to win over his old constituents. how things have changed. with reaction to that story and wall street reform and much more is former speaker of the house, fox news contributor, newt gingrich. he has a free weekly newsletter and you can sign up for it at newt.org. how are you? i love seeing you in studio. fun to be here. sean: you wrote a hard-hitting, incredible piece in the washington post today. how america became a secular socia
along with this trial. i ll keep you posted on sarah palin on the stand as news happens from knoxville, tennessee. now back to you guys. jane: harris, thanks. sure. jane: opening statements in the court marshal case. petty officer jonathan keefe is accused of failing to stop the mistreatment of an iraqi prisoner, that prisoner is suspected to be the mastermind of the grizzly murders of four american contractors in fallujah. another navy seal was cleared of similar charges just yesterday. steve centanni has been covering this for us, he s in d.c. tell us what happened today reporter: we ve had at least three witnesses and the trial continues. the prisoner himself who claims he was beaten, he testified, a navy petty officer who says he saw the beating, and julio hoursas huertas, who was found not guilty in the case yesterday. this is the trial of petty officer second class jonathan keefe of new yorktown, virginia.
laughing at the united states at this point. reporter: the attorney for julio huertas acquitted beesterday, attacked the testimony of another key witness. a navy officer who she says changed his story a couple of times. and so i really exploited that. that was my strategy, to exploit those brand new facts he s bringing out for the first time, to say hey, this is not true. and i called him a liar several times. reporter: one more trial yet to go. that of matthew mccabe, the only navy seal charged with assault in the case. his attorney hopes the government will drop the charges in light of the other two anitrgittals in the case this weyor. o cue.abe goes on t month. bret? bret: steve, thank yochec suspected pifiates who attacked u.s. navy warships off the coast of east africa are now facing justice right doeven the road in virginia. senior correspondent brian wilson is here with details. good evening. reporter: there be pirates in norfolk, virginia.
they don t want his picture shown because it s in special operation. use accused of dereliction of duty. he s chose to go have the case heard by the judge and there won t be a jury as in the case of julio huertas. jane: and huertas was found not guilty. does that mean the possibility of acquittal is pretty high for the others? reporter: it s possible. the biggest concern would be for matthew mccabe, he s the navy seal actually accused of punching the prisoner in the stomach. mccabe s attorney says the case has been laid out in the trial of huertas and in the trial of keefe and the jury didn t believe the allegations in the last trial. mc i m sorry, huertas was found not guilty so he s sure keefe and mccain will also be found not guilty and he talked with me this morning about mccabe s reaction to the acquittal of huertas. let s listen. i woke up yesterday to an effusive e-mail from my
our newsroom, a lot is happening on this friday morning, we re working on it all and will bring it state to you. jon: president obama is now making immigration reform a priority on top of an already full agenda. but after health care is he ready for another bruising battle over a controversial issue in an election year? minutes to go minutes ago he spoke at a citizenship ceremony for members of the military. maloni will o clocks joins us. how high a priority is this for the administration. reporter: president obama is talking up reform mindful of the hispanic vote in the mid-term election year but as they get to immigration reform, they re pushing him for do more. a short i m ago the president said he wants a common sense approach to those with citizen thank you. here s what he sas to has to say. surely we can agree with 11 million living her illegally outside the system, that s unacceptable, the american people demand a solution and they deserve common sense immigrat