martha: this is an incredible story of redemption. a man that was wrongly accused of rape is now getting a chance to live out his dream of making it to the nfl. here is the emotional moment when brian banks first learned that after five years in prison, the woman who accused him had been proved wrong. take a look. martha: tears all around on that day. he worked works so hard to make himself a possibility to go back and join the nfl. he has signed with the atlanta falcons, way back when, he was accused when he was 17 years old. he was on his way to southern california to play football at that time with his whole life ahead of him. it changed his life forever. then after all those years, the accuser said that it had never
happened. ten years later, he has been meeting with the falcons and they want to give him a shot. they say that he will be treated fairly. to show appear as a free man, no parole, no label is a sexual predator. i am finally allowed to live. martha: what a moment for him. he is trying to make a spot on the falcons roster and we will watch his story very closely. that s a great story. bill: we wish the best for him. investigators in texas trying to figure out if there is a connection to a white supremacist prison game known as the aryan brotherhood and the death of two prosecutors. a former l.a. homicide detective in a fox news contributing gentlemen, welcome to both of you. arthur, first you first.
only a few took him up on it, surprise, surprise. bill: shocker. martha: he did it. bill: should we give back some of our . martha: we don t work for the federal government. we re not being paid by the taxpayer. bill: i m not giving back my money. i don t think you are either. we re getting new reports that former enron ceo jeffrey skilling might get out of jail early. there is word an agreement is talked about between his lawyers. skilling has served six years of a 24-year sentence. that for his role in the collapse of the houston-based energy firm. it is still not clear how much his sentence would be if reduced rather if a deal is reached. martha: long time since we thought about that story, right? that is back in the news. this as well, the daughter of spanish king juan-carlos has been named a suspect in a massive corruption case. a judge in spain subpoenaing princess christina as part of an investigation of her husband for alleged embezzlement of public funds. the judge says the
about the way that the guards were treating him in prison. he writes, quote, i just fantasize about catching them out on the bricks and subjecting them to vicious torture and eventual murder. that seems to get me through the days with a good degree of my sanity remaining intact. the letter was entered as evidence at a sentencing hearing after ebel was con in haved of punching a guard in the face. he was supposed to serve an extra four years but was released early due to what was being called, a clerical error. martha: what a story. alicia. thank you very much. bill: been watching this for a while now. timeline of clements murder. evan ebel released from prison january 28th of this year. then on march 17th police believe ebel kills an ibm worker moonlighting as a pizza delivery driver and steals his car. two days later, prison chief tom clements gunned down after answering the front door of his home. march 21st, ebel dice after
that yellow line into a real job creation environment in this country. so far this year we ve been averaging more than that. so that s really what we want to keep in perspective here. that s the worst of it, but the last several years as you can see we really haven t made a whole lot of progress getting back to where we want to be. bill: just listen to stuart there. martha: yeah. bill: you wonder if it is a one-time deal or whether this is a new pattern that will start putting us back in the hole we climbed out of? right now we don t know. martha: great engines for growth in terms of new business in the economy. you have a lot of businesses very concerned what will be coming down the pipeline with health care. so the jobs picture is tough, very tough, remains so. bill: that is our lead story this morning. much more coming up when charles payne joins us. martha: a disturbing situation we re following here. texas may have to beef up security for prosecutors fighting against the state s