comments about this phone call the russian authorities are allegedly eaves dropped in between her and her son talking about jihad? reporter: this is a phone call with both parents who pretty much are in a stressed out, dramatic state. the father could only tell me he was sick and the phone call ended. the mother elaborated a little more, talking about his high blood pressure. most importantly, his trip to the u.s. is off until his health gets in better condition. no idea when that s going to be. she did say, though, when she s told she can meet dzhokhar, who is currently in custody, she will endure any risk of outstanding shoplifting allegations and the potential of the investigation with the phone taps, could potentially widen further inquiries. she said she will endure that risk just to go to the u.s. but no comment at all on those particular phone conversations, anderson. joe, obviously we naturally think this dna could be from tamerlan s wife. it appears from erin s reporting t
things that were overheard on those phone taps was his plan. at the time, he was actually working to try to get terry sanford, a former at the time north carolina governor later would become a north carolina senator. he was trying to get harry sanford the possibility of getting the nomination at a broken convention. and it all was about preventing george mcgovern from agetting ay delegates from the texas state convention which was controlled somewhat by a nixon friend, governor john conley. here s what spencer oliver said about it. i was standing outside the room, and my friend bob schlagel who was later chairman came out and said, well, it s a surprise, but thief they ve decided to give mcgovern one-third of the delegates to be fair. i said who in the world in that room would have wanted to do that. and he said well will davis is the state chairman and that s what he thought we ought to do. of course, will davis was a state party chairman who had
welcome, everybody. it is friday, july 15th. i m soledad o brien. you are watching snoonk kiran is off, christine is off, welcome soledad. good to see you. thank you. we have a lot to do today. let s get right to it. serious new pressure on rupert murdock and his global media empire. the justice department says it s now investigating the claims that one of its tabloids tried to hack 9/11 victims phones. a report in another british tabloid, the mirror quoting a source who says news of the world, the newspaper which folded under the pressure of the hacking scandal, hired an investigator to try to tap the phones. now lawmakers, law enforcement, and 9/11 families are all demanding the truth. susan candiotti following the latest for us on this and breaking, one casualty of the news international, rebekah brooks has resigned. the question is, does this mean that the walls are crumbling at news corp. it s too early to say, bulls this is a crack in the wall. she was a prot
the stand and testify, yes? you have know, just about every day when he walk over to the courthouse he talks to the cameras and insists he can t wait to have this day when he testifies. but the experts believe his testimony could backfire on him as quickly as he s cross-examined. he better say to the jury right away that he did stupid things buff he didn t take any money or violate any laws. he might try to convince the jury that everything he did was in the interest of the people of illinois. that s what you do when the testimony is you only work two hours a week. reporter: the government can bring up tefort money that he hid in the bathroom when his budget director came calling. they can bring up the fact that when his popularity or phone taps fell down to 13%, he referred to this constituents with all of that language we have gotten to know him for that
the questioned is why. s it s very apparent the obama administration does not want to fight the war on terror in public. in private, rendition continues, drone missile attacks that killed scores of al qaeda and warrantless phone taps are used all the time. but that stuff is kept secret. the president, however, does not want to publicly criticize islam and that s why holder dances all over the place. right now the u.s.a. is getting good intelligence from some islamic countries like kuwait, jordan and egypt. the president does not want to take an anti-islam stance believing that does the country no good. that kind of makes sense. we need all the muslim allies we can get. but you can t deny the obvious. and have americans support you. we all know islamic fanatics are driving worldwide terrorism and it is not offensive to say that. it s the truth. you don t have to sky write it but when asked, answer the question, mr. attorney general. on another front, holder has made it quite clear he d