there, or are you alone? reporter: i am alone except for the crew and some other reporters. i had to look around. we re sort of in a bubble. you know how that is, but, where do we start, ali? oh my gosh. there is so much to talk about in this case. when you talk about propofol. we didn t know anything about propofol before michael jackson. some people get it when you go into procedures but you didn t know the name of it. as you said, opening statements, starting about 8:45 local time, which is 11:45 eastern. that s when the judge will come in, give the jury instructions, about 15 minutes. after that, the arguments are expected to start in this case. the prosecution and from the defense. that are ge on for a bit. 10:15, they ll take a little breather. after that, ali, they re going to come back, continued with the arguments. we don t expect we don t expect doesn t always go as planned, we don t expect the first witness to start testifying until a little later on this aft
ted rowlands was inside the courtroom when that audio was played. ted, it was stunning to hear. i can t imagine what the reaction was like inside the courtroom where michael jacks jackson s family was attending. reporter: to be honest, drew, i was not inside the courtroom during that audio, but i think anybody who heard it was shocked. and the prosecutors used it for one reason, to show that dr. conrad murray knew what he was doing to michael jackson, knew the drugs he was administering to michael jackson had this type of effect. they got that recording from murray s own cell phone so murray was recording jackson in if that distorted state. i mean, you could hear him just trying to slur the words. this was part of an hour and a half that the prosecution went through today in their opening statements with the jury. basically, they said murray was incompetent and that he dropped the ball in leaving jackson alone, not only by giving him the propofol and other drugs, but he l
publicly stated. is to do whatever it takes to see to it that obama only serves one term. screw the country. we re going to do whatever we can to get this black man out of here. and the morgan freeman you really don t know. play golf with one hand. really? yeah. i can drive a ball 180 yards. this man can do just about anything. i ll have to ask him to do me a personal favor. i m going to do this one more time. but after this i get paid. right? this is piers morgan tonight. morgan freeman is a man of great stature, a man of great talent, and as i ve come to realize he s also a great man of his word. a few months ago he promised he d join me in the studio face to face for a one-on-one interview, and here you are, morgan freeman. yay. an actor keeping his word. yes. i m stunned. yeah. we won t talk about how it came about. we won t. i know it s got nothing to do with me. everything to do with one of my very attractive booking team. right? yes, yes.
center in new york. he joins us on the show. good to be here. the numbers went up a little bit. they say it wasn t statistically that significant. does it surprise you it didn t go down or this is where it s at? it s where it s at until 2014 assuming the health care reform legislation becomes intact, when people will be able to get insurance who don t have it today. sanj sanjay, think of it this way. while it only went up 1 million people, which is lower than expected, think of 12 football stadiums filled with people that lost their health insurance last year. the unemployment rate between 2009 to 2010 was already pretty bad, so it didn t grow as much. if you have a job and you have cobra, it lasts for 18 months afterwards. you find another job, you can get health insurance there. what if you don t have cobra or you can t afford the premium? that s a big problem. most employer health insurance is substance d is subsidized by the employer. if you re unemployed, you l
one-termer. the vibe was bad enough this week. the top obama campaign strategist sent a memo to reporters noting that the president s support from the democratic base is strong. the same cannot be said of independents. 54% disapprove of how he s doing his job. things can change between now and november 2012. the more immediate question is whether president obama has the political capital to sell his jobs plan to the public and push it through congress. joining us now, the number two democrat in the senate, senator dick durbin. thank you so much for being here. and let s just start with that question. we do see a president who s being openly criticized by democrats, whose poll numbers are falling. a weak economy. and people just not really sure this jobs plan is going to work. how do you sell that to the public and how do you pass that in the senate? candy, you can understand the skepticism of americans. they ve watched the confrontation in washington virtually threaten to