woman. thank you. and you just gave them out all over the world. it s friday. i love when i go to friendly s and i get a frippett and i really enjoy it. sure. with the cherry on the top. exactly. that sounds frippettish. somehow, we have to get past this. we have some news headlines for your friday. tgif, everyone. fox news alert. a series of bombings rocking afghanistan today leaving five nato troops dead. they died in two separate attacks in the southern part of the country. just yesterday, three other nato soldiers were killed in another bombing. no word yet on the nationalities of any of those victims. joran van der sloot finally getting his day in court. in a few hours, his murder trial will get under way in peru. the 23-year-old charged with killing stephanie flores, a woman he met in a casino in 2010. he confessed to murdering her in his hotel room later that night after finding her researching
happening. and the big jobs report for december is coming out today. christine romans calling it the big granddaddy of them all. it s probably good news for the democrats and she ll share details. and there s this thing that climbers like to do. seven peaks, it s a big deal for anybody. but if you re 15 years old. it s a huge deal. we ll tell you about this kid. who happened to just globe-trot the world and climb the seven highest peaks. and we re going to add in an eighth one. which one s that? you ll see. quite a little wonder that we re going to see this morning i m looking forward to it. learn something every day. we begin this morning with the critical endorsement in the battle for new hampshire. for jon huntsman. the boston globe has it as a banner headline, they say former utah governor offers the republican party an opportunity to renew itself. the boston globe editor spoke to our own erin burnett last night. huntsman is bold anywhere the campaig
casino in lima last year. van der sloot also names flora s father in a $10 million lawsuit. geraldo rivera, anchor of geraldo at large . joins us with reaction. her father is public figure and wealthy man. the victim in peru, yes. jon: he has had some, you know, trouble come his way but i can t think of anything more repulsive than civilly sued by the guy who is accused of choking your daughter to death. what van der sloot and he is loathsome character and has amazing huts spa to do this but his basic point just because he is accused after bloody murder and confessed to it, doesn t mean he is devoid of all rights. remember when, after killing stephanie flores in lima, he confessed to the murder, remember, folks, he fled to chile. chile in the very summary fashion expelled him back to peru. so now his lawsuit against chile is that, wait a second,
der sloot expected to plead guilty to killing a woman in peru last year. the defense says they ll use peru s version of a temporary insanity defense. let s talk about it with joseph benedetto, a criminal defense attorney, doug burns is a former prosecutor. i know there are differences in peruvian law versus what we re used to here but what s the idea, he would say yes, i killed stephanie, but i was insane at the time? yes. there s a slight difference. on the under peruvian law they make reference to a violent emotional plea, which is a plea that s entered after he s actually pleads gil, it s a mitigation package that s put forth to the judge and essentially states that yes, i did commit this crime but at the time that i committed this crime i was operating under extreme emotional stress and i did not have the ability to understand what in fact i was doing. jon: doug, could it work? well, it s what we here in the states call heat of
party. he said he kicked his addiction to cocaine and he s alive with love. why do you say that s a stripper pole? joran van der sloot pleading guilty to killing stephanie flores. why are we now hearing that van der sloot may serve only five years behind bars and maybe less. with us now is fox senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. they do things differently down there. they sure do. if this were the united states, it would be a second degree murder charge or aggravated manslaughter and he d be facing depending upon the state between 20 and 25 years. but in a society where men using heat of anger to murder women is