is expected to take the stand today in the trial of a teenager is who is accused of fatally shooting a 13-month-old baby in his stroller. the witness is the alleged come mission in this crime accomplice this crime. there was serious debate yesterday whether or not to allow his testimony. john roberts is following the story live from the courthouse in marietta, georgia. good morning, john court court martha could be a very big day in court. dominic lane is expected to take the stand. he is large r charged with murder as well as the suspected shooter, demarquis elkins. he came up to sherry west on the sidewalk. demanded purse. when he wouldn t hand it over. elkins, slapped her with a poise toll and threatened her baby and then started shooting. we re still arguing about the purse and i was in panic move. i didn t move. i just looked around. because she said, help, help.
prosecutors have asked him to testify as the older teen stands trial. both suspects face murder charges. this is the teenager on trial now. police say he tried to rob the mother on a street in southeast georgia back in march. they say the mom claimed she didn t have any money and that s when the teen shot her in the leg and in the ear and shot the baby in the head. one bullet. between the eyes. but defense attorneys have suggested the mother had a financial interest in the death of her son. they say she actually took out a life insurance policy on the 13 month old child and tried to cash it after the shooting. and here we have the younger teen who took the stand today. he says he was not close friends with the gunman. they just happened to be walking down the street when he heard the gunman confront the mother and eventually pull the trigger. he was still arguing about the purse, and i was in panic move, i didn t move. i just looked around, she said help, help. and then i turned my h
the fact that he departed, bill daley comes across as much more of a nice guy, very low key, not imposing himself, and i think you re hearing a lot of this now from the lower wrungs. but i think that rich is on to something. this is a panic move, it s not good advice. but you re seeing this not only in terms of what carville said, the political piece that you mentioned on daley, but there s a new book out talking about the president s economic team during their first term, and how chaotic and back biting they were, how mean they were to the women on the economic team. i think this is a season just it s just a winter of discontent moment for the obama white house. martha: it s interesting. at one point in the politico piece, they say maybe it s more of a primal scream, maybe it goes deeper than the issue of personnel and rich, you know, it does raise the question, you know, i don t remember anybody when bush s approval numbers were down in the 38 percent range, people were saying wh
2009 as we saw a moment ago, stocks are down here in the u.s. but are off their lows. global investors are extremely nervous still. the japanese market had plunged over 10% last night down almost 19% in the past four trading sessions alone. the fear of a nuclear crisis is spreading. some have called this market decline irrational or a panic move. other commentators are saying the unstable situation at those plants and the potential hit to the japanese market would have a ripple effect over the global economy and the companies that do business there does justify their caution. due to the damage at plants and infrastructure and power out ands, major automakers and suppliers have extended their halt in production at least till tomorrow. there s a growing list of industries is. they re also suspending parts of operations due to a government mandated power cut. back to you, peter. mandy, thank you very much. while we re on the topic of
of staff today on meet the press. the issue of the reserves is one we re considering. it is something that only is done in has been done on very rare occasions. there s a bunch of factors that have to be looked at. but it s on the table, which i think is significant well, all matters have to be on the table when you go through when you see the difficulty coming out of this economic crisis we re in and the fragility of it. robert traynham hosts roll call tv and the d.c. bureau chief for the comcast network. and karen finney is an msnbc political analyst, former communications director for the dnc, making a second weekend appearance. thank you for that. we re lucky for that. good to see you both. i ll begin ladies first. we ll begin with you. hearing the chief of staff there, all options are on the table. is this a panic move? i don t think so. i think if anything it is a move to try to reassure people that if we get to the point where gas prices are, you know, obviou