done he s coming to new york to go to the united nations. shepard: jerry, thank you. a money battle teen the to front runners and the between the two front-runners and the battle to win the white house. longtime democratic stronghold falls to the gop. in a special election to replace this sexing ex-congressman and the the session continuing ex-congressman anthony weiner that is coming up. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement
shepard: it wasn t my words. remember it was a big deal we the democrats won in upstate new york, largely playing on fears that seniors had that republicans were going after medicare and medicaid in the paul ryan budget proposal. this time that once potent weapon didn t work. it didn t work this new york in the race that we ve just described. it didn t work in nevada. that weapon now seems to have been neutralizeed by republicans. in the weiner case you can you can say a lot of people had a negative reaction to the scandal. all efforts by people including the governor of new york andrew cuomo to try an infusion of late money from the national democratic party, did not help. it was clearly the case that bob turner turned out to be a strong candidate. shepard: in the case after these pictures of anthony weiner came out, they did polls in his district.
there is word the court is having trouble finding enough jurors who haven t heard about the case. they only need six. according to published reports the suspect bob ward told cops five times during his initial 911 call he shot his wife. he now claim her death was an accident and has pleaded not guilty. there s the party of the call he made during the police interrogation. here s a video clip during which he s said to be talking to his brother-in-law. i probably can t tell you anything right now other than that she s dead. and it was an accident. and i will tell you more about it later. but, you know it was a very tragic accident. shepard: prosecutors claim they found the suspect s dna on the gun. forensic tests shows somebody fired it from more than a foot from the body. investigators have released this jailhouse video showing the suspect dancing and
shepard: a new federal report blaming bp for the deadly oil rig explosion that killed 11 and sparked the worst offshore oil spill in the history of our nation. bp did it! this is from the federal government, blame them if you don t like it. it states, b not i quote. this is what it states. we should note the federal agents agency signed off on many of the decisions the company made eight that site sometimes in a matter of minutes. more on the case of the millionaire from florida who cops say shot his wife in the face in 2009 inside their central florida mansion.
the iran foreign ministry has said it sent a plane to pick them up. somebody somewhere thinks a release is coming soon, if not immediately. shepard: the mullahs run the country, how does that factor in? big factor. in the last few days, over the last year in iran, a lot of struggles between president ahmadinejad who nobody thinks of as a moderate between him and more conservative elements of the iranian government. there have been disputes about staffing the intelligence services. the economy. there s been struggles over the nuclear program. u.s. officials thought they saw differences between the more conservative clerical establishment and the president over strategy and negotiations over the iranian nuclear program. the idea that there are tensions there particularly between the president and the conservative clerical establishment which is closely identified with the judiciary is not new or surprising. i think that s what we are seeing now.