catastrophic failure of the justice system. georgia delayed the execution for four hours while the u.s. supreme court considered the case. davis declared his innocence until l the end. he lifted his head from the gournny and told the victim s family they had the wrong man. and he said to the prison staff, the ones he said who were going to take my life, he said to them, may god have mercy on your souls and his last words were to them, may god bless your souls. then he put his head back down. the procedure began and about 50 minutes later, it was over. davis got the death penalty for killing a savannah police officer in 199 and davis supporters felt his guilt was thrown in doubt when a majority recanted. protests outside united nations today. the crowd wants an iranian opposition group taken off the state department s list of terror groups. the group is working to overthrow iran s ruling. the european union removed the group from its terror list in 2009. protesters are
but overall that idea that the fed thinks that there are still significant downside risks, kyra, that has people unnerved. stocks are down. oil is down big. gold is down, as well. so, you re seeing a real movement out of some of these commodities and stocks today on this idea that the economy is not out of the woods yet, kyra? we ll look for the numbers in 28 1/2 minutes, thanks so much. the threat of a new government shutdown an intense round of voting rejected a spending bill and the move surprised even the republican leaders. kate baldwin joining us now from capitol hill. so, kate, the government due to run out of money at the end of the month. tell us what is happening behind the scenes. here we go, again, kyra. quite a blow for house republican leadership last night. in a vote, the final tally 195-230. 48 republicans, almost 50 house republicans joined with an overwellming majority of house democrats to reject this bill. this measure, just to give a little bit of b
shell casings from officer macphail shooting matched up and now everybody agrees from the georgia bureau of investigations that that s wrong, and the reason that s important is the prosecution also argued to the jury that the reason troy davis would shoot the officer when he saw him come upon the ian is that he was worried about having committed the shooting earlier that night and so it made sense that davis did it and he did it with the same gun. that was the prosecution s theory. i got you. there s no-no forensic basis for that. that s got to be troubling. here we are less than 90 minutes now and the supreme court, just heard from the associated press, the georgia supreme court refuses to stop the execution as of this minute. yesterday, by the way, the georgia board of pardons that we ve been talking about and patrols, released a statement denying clemency to davis. it reads, quote, the board members have not taken their responsibility lightly and certainly understand the emoti
carrying a tremor of evil with it, the history of the holocaust. they ought to know what they re saying. if they re not saying a terrible thing like this or not knowing it, they should be ashamed of themselves for being so ignorant. that s right. the leading candidate for his party s nomination stood within a few blocks of the united nations building and accused of president of the united states of appeasement. the charge delivered just hours before the president spoke for our country and also in the clear national interest of israel to give a case for the united states decision to recognize the sovereignty of a was a shameful act, meant to undermine the president at the instant he would be standing practically alone in the world as he was today, standing with our ally israel. at the very moment of national challenge with the president doing what every friend of israel understands he needed to do, this personal from texas, this foreign policy sen gen knew spotted his chance and showe
you know, the trouble is, one thing i don t think we should try these cases by public opinion, whether it s the duke lacrosse team or that guy from the imf, the french guy. the public opinion, the way the press covers these cases, no way to decide guilt or innocence. it s a hopelessly improper way to do it. we re not doing it tonight but trying to figure out what s happening tonight. thank you, gene and smerconish. when we return, we get an update on the troy davis case. slashing service, and want to lay off over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. the problem ? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains 5 billion a year from post-office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts. congress created this problem, and congress can fix it.