they still blame president bush. the symbol of the republican party, which they adopted was clint eastwood. i don t think americans want to go back to a government and a country ruled by older white men. lynn sweet, before i let you guys get out of here, i want to ask you about jesse jackson jr. word came down last week he is in talks with investigators regarding a plea deal. what can you tell us? that was a story my sun-times colleague mike snead broke, big credit to them for digging this out. he is in mayo clinic right now. he went back if there for his bipolar depression. and at the same time he is talking about pleaing for misuse of campaign funds. so he has a lot going on right now. may lead, may lead if he has to plead to his stepping down from the state. that would be part of the plea deal? often that is. lynn sweet, thanks to you. bill schneider, thanks to you as well. do appreciate you as always. okay. the very latest on the resignation of cia director david pe
really seeing now. your attorney is right. they re going to have to go for this insanity plea, but i doubt it right now from what we re seeing that it will be successful. this guy was extremely know if to qualify for an insanity plea. they will do the plea, but i don t know if he will be able to get off on this one in that way. and, scott, we re a little bit away from that, from pleaing and knowing what the charges are, but he will be in court tomorrow. what will happen with james holmes when he appears in court? probably only he will be advised of his rights. probably will not be charges for him to be advised about. certainly it s a little early for the defense to raise competency. i suspect that it will be a relatively nonevent type of legal proceeding, except we have 12 dead and 58 wounded. and colorado law, we will know about the charges fairly
insanity plea, but i doubt it will be successful. this guy was extremely disturbed, emotionally unstable. but i don t know if he will qualify for an insanity plea. they will do the plea, but i don t know if he will be able to get off on this one in that way. and, scott, we re a little bit away from that, from pleaing, even knowing what the charges are. he will be in court tomorrow. what will happen with him when he appears in court? probably only that he will be advised of his rights. probably won t be charges for him to be advised about. certainly it s a little early for the defense to raise competency. i suspect it will be a relatively nonevent type of legal proceeding, except for the fact that we have 12 dead and 58 wounded. and colorado law says that we will know about charges fairly quickly, right. what is it, 72 hours? 72 hour rule. honored in the breach as often
pretty steady. we re at ward 1. you step inside where voters started showing up about 6:00 this morning. right now you see a few of the voters here. you haven t seen the long lines, but a steady stream of folks coming in here. this is a very busy ward. we take a look back to 2008, according to official als here, they had to call up the clerk s office and get the ballots. they got the ballots this time. perhaps they won t have to do that. overallstate wide according to the secretary of state s office, they re expecting 250,000 ballots to be cast in this highly contested republican primary compared to last time in 2008, roughly 9,000 more, kyra. romney s had a pretty rough 48 hours. what kind of impact do you think that will have? reporter: i think the real test will come once all the votes are counted. what i can say though is that when he made the mistake yesterday of referring to enjoying firing people he was talking about insurance companies that aren t up to par. you s
low-hanging fruit stories, ed. like the $500,000 interest-free loan, interest-free credit line that he got from tiffany jewelers. he got that and we found out it was because of some kind of putrid political deal that he made on their behalf. so the low-hanging fruit, easy stories about not paying child support for years, or leaing his wife while she s being operated on for cancer or coming out of congress as a multimillionaire when he goes into congress on a teacher s salary. so these stories are easy to deliver. it s very, very tough for him to overcome it. mitt needs to relax and understand that. this whole thing is really tough on the social conservatives. they don t know which way to turn. this is tony perkins, head of the family research council, on msnbc earlier today. i think when you look at newt s positions, that s somewhat problematic for him. if you look at his new contract for america he put out, it s void of social issues. mitt romney, who has a great personal life whe