nancy, was this a smart decision by sandusky and his attorney? it was a win-win decision. it was a win for the defense joe johns because otherwise they would have had the case laid bear for the public of the granted it s a closed courtroom to cameras but there are spectators and reporters that can hear what happened and they would have had heard every excruciating detail. to our count, we can identify five alleged victims there waiting in line to testify against sandusky. so they would have given their testimony. the win for the prosecution is that the defense did not get a dry run at cross-examination. this is what i predicted to you yesterday should go down. the state should under no circumstance offer up all of the alleged victims like a thanksgiving turkey, to get sliced up on cross exam. they did it, now for the defense, defense attorneys typically would love the chance to go fishing at the expense of the state s witnesses here it would have been a pr nightmare for san
young boys he allegedly targeted over a span of more than 15 years. let s go straight to nancy grace who s been all over this case to try to get a better understanding of all of this. nancy, was this a smart decision by sandusky and his attorney? it was a win-win decision. it was a win for the defense joe johns because otherwise they would have had the case laid bear for the public of the granted it s a closed courtroom to cameras but there are spectators and reporters that can hear what happened and they would have had heard every excruciating detail. to our count, we can identify five alleged victims there waiting in line to testify against sandusky. so they would have given their testimony. the win for the prosecution is that the defense did not get a dry run at cross-examination. this is what i predicted to you yesterday should go down. the state should under no circumstance offer up all of the alleged victims like a thanksgiving turkey, to get sliced up on cross exam.
now president obama has, too. he sets off a metal detector at a white house security checkpoint. and across russia, angry protesters take to the streets. they say parliamentary elections were rigged. the target of their anger, the prime minister vladimir putin and his party. controversial words from newt gingerich today. he says palestinians are and i m quoting here an invented people. gingerich made the remarks in an interview on the jewish channel. here it is. well, i believe that the jewish people have the right to have a state. and i believe the commitments that were made at a time remember, there were there was no palestine as a state as part of the ottoman empire. i think that we ve had an invented palestinian people who were historically part of the arab community. gingerich went on to say it s tragic that palestinians didn t leave the area when they had the chance, rather, a war against israel. and he called the middle east peace process, quote, delusi