the tradition of emmitt till or james byrd or yow self hawkins until the president of the united states jumped in in a personal way and michael sheerer of the new york times said he seemed eager to jump in the debate and lead to a mistrial for the the defendant, but nonetheless, super politics nova to come. jon: right now the body language from judy next to you is saying all kind of disagreement. well, this is because jim and i discussed the story a long time ago, of course, this was a national story. this is a story that has resonance, not only because an unarmed black teenager is shot down on the street, it s a story because 20 states have gun laws just like florida. it s a story because the florida police appeared to have covered up this terrible, terrible event and the facts leading to it.
there will probably be others, not because i am aware of any. michael sheerer has been writing about this for the new york times. good afternoon. you wrote about the cain campaign going all out to undermine bialek s credibility. give us some specifics. well, what they ve done sort of throughout the course of the last couple days is as soon as miss bialek came forward was to ship around to reporters and to supporters allegations that she had been involved in multiple lawsuits, that she had financial problems, had declared bankruptcy, all in an effort i guess to sort of buttress the claim that mr. cain made during his press conference, which is that we should all consider the financial implications of maybe she s doing this for the money. she said on this network earlier today that s not the case, but that s clearly what the cain campaign was trying to do was to put at least a seed of doubt in people s minds about why she might be saying these things.