this bail hearing just means, and his release on bail means he s not a flight risk, it s not a determination of guilt or innocence, correct? i agree, jamie, totally, this is not a trial or acquittal after trial. all the evidence hasn t been seen yet and clearly this is just a bail determination to see if the defendant will come back to court. that s all that this is about. there s a big trial left to take place. and rachel, the law in that country, compared to our country, is very different. we ve learned so much about the evidence in in case, and also, the botched evidence, the lead investigator left bullets behind, they ve admitted to that. and he was removed from the case after the bail hearing because he himself is facing murder charges. the prosecutor, whether he knew about it or not. what s the effect of that on the credibility of this whole case? well, i think you ve got a lot of problems going on here, but the lead prosecutor the lead investigator who initially came on
hearing you. with the fact i m going to have to drop off for a moment here. martha: thank you so much, greg, we ll speak with you soon. bill: terrific work down there. greg palkot on the scene inside [inaudible] the courtroom and now with us. there are apparently ear it is a formal inquiry in witnesses to this. we say ear witnesses because terms of section 60 they heard some sort of subsection b of criminal shouting. it s quite possible they heard gunshots as well. procedure act. but we have not been told at [inaudible]. we have a document that is what point in the night the ear okay. witnesses say that they heard give me five minutes, some sort of commotion inside please. thank you. that mansion. court will adjourn. martha: there are also reports that they were a thousand meters away, and big questions as to whether or not they would have been able to hear or confirm bill: so clearly we can not anything in that house. see inside the courtroom. bill: even that distance changed
of all this. bill: martha, this is just in the meantime there is other crossing. news today and a lot of it. this is the associated press out of pretoria, americans hit hard by recent tax south africa. it is a one-line headline. hikes, president obama saying the wealthy should pay more. magistrate says, oscar we ll break down the numbers pistorius to be granted that they do pay and ask if the bail. that s what s coming now in president has a fair argument. from the associated press. greg palkot is inside the martha: a week now to go before courtroom. his reactions coming up in the automatic budget cuts kick moment. he described how he is in. next, both sides of the reacting now. megyn kelly is with me. argument, for and against more megyn, good morning to you. government spending in a very i don t know how much time you have spent studying up increasingly tough economy. on south african law but my hunch you re about to get a lot more familiar with this. if the magistrate says he gets b
coverage of the story. and this morning, i would just say that people are holding themselves to wait and see what would happen and i think in terms of public opinion, it s shocking. a lot of of people are wondering exactly who is pistorius and what happened on tuesday morning. greta: it s obviously tuesday morning where you are in south africa and curious whether people anticipate oscar when he does go to court, wh he s likely to get bail or not. that s difficult to say at this stage, opposing bail and the charge under south african law premeditated murder. he might make a brief statement in court today, what s going to happen came about and the defense argue that the charge be reduced from premeditated to murder to murder, while the state opposed that they want to go
coverage of the story. and this morning, i would just say that people are holding themselves to wait and see what would happen and i think in terms of public opinion, it s shocking. a lot of of people are wondering exactly who is pistorius and what happened on tuesday morning. greta: it s obviously tuesday morning where you are in south africa and curious whether people anticipate oscar when he does go to court, wh he s likely to get bail or not. that s difficult to say at this stage, opposing bail and the charge under south african law premeditated murder. he might make a brief statement in court today, what s going to happen came about and the defense argue that the charge be reduced from premeditated to murder to murder, while the state opposed that they want to go