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They actually had a meeting for 45 minutes and they decided it s not a good enough idea and thought they had strong enough testimony from his wife, dottie, who tried to do her best to take away from what those victims were claiming and discredit them and they said there was a tainted investigation. i think she did a good job. you know what, considering what the prosecution presented, i thought there s no way the defense would have anything solid. but considering the evidence that they put forth and the testimony, i thought it was pretty strong, even though i think we know where this case is going. we should have our answer pretty soon. maybe one day of deliberations. well, there will be no congressional hearings to investigate bounties in professional sports. at least for now. senator dick durbin withdrew the plan after meeting with the nfl commissioner rod egg roger goode goodell. the hearings were considered after a new orleans saints bounty program that paid players to hur ....
Take the stand in front of attorneys from both sides and on the record in front of the judge. it s a very difficult decision for a lawyer. and what happens if you lose, the client sits there and says if i only could have told my story and spoken to the jury, maybe this wouldn t have happened. reporter: if sandusky is convicted on all counts he would have a theoretical 500 years in jail to contemplate this quick decision. the jury gets the case next after closing arguments. jim avila, abc news, bellefonte, pennsylvania. well, a lot of counts, 52 originally, dropped one this week so now 51 counts still remaining. like 400 years in prison behind bars. the defense, they had a pretty solid argument when they put dottie on the stand. yeah. they re also claiming that the investigation was tainted. actually, 500 years, my producer just corrected me. in my ear. but who s counting? and the investigators coach a lot of these young men into telling them what they should ....
states where it is not legal or not. we begin this hour with a free speech decision from the highest court in the land. unanimous decision that could make prime time television even less family friendly than it is now. our justice correspondent joe johns joining me now with a pretty i guess you could say eye opening details. let s talk about what is at issue here. and how this is a coup for broadcasters. that s true. but i caution that we probably shouldn t go too far in calling this a sweeping ruling. this is an ball what goes on broadcast tv and how much power the federal communication commission has to regulate it after the fact that dhoept have a rule in place to handle the situation. we are talking about three incidents here, two concerned, isolated utterances of obscene words during two live broadcast aired by fox television stations, the third occurrence occurred during an episode of a television program broadcast by the abc television network. this goes ta ....
start. nice to have you with us. i m ashleigh banfield and i m zoraida sambolin. it s 5:00 a.m. here in the east. let s get started. attorney eric holder to be held in contempt in congress. yesterday the members of the government oversight and reform committee voted along party lines to recommend citing him for contempt for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents from the botched fast and furious gun operation, documents that are now off limits to republicans, and everyone else, because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep all of those documents now under wraps. joe johns is live from washington, d.c., this morning. joe, this is the first time that president obama has used the executive privilege. i think it was president clinton that maybe used it 14 times. how rare is this, and what is going to happen next to the attorney general? reporter: it is rare, but on the other hand, presidents do it, and most presidents do it at least once or twice d ....
championship. lebron james. the whole team. lebron james. doesn t everyone just think lebron james is the heat? good morning, everyone. nice to have you with us on this very, very early start. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. let s get started here. let s start with the developing news this morning out of egypt about the health of former president hosni mubarak. we re getting conflicting reports about his actual condition. a state news agency is reporting the 84-year-old is clinically dead. but his lawyer says that he is in a coma. the military says mubarak s condition is critical. but that he is, indeed, still alive. all this confusion coming at a very critical time for egypt. thousands gathering overnight in cairo s tahrir square to protest the military leaders who were supposed to oversee the transition to democracy. instead, they are grabbing more power. ivan watson is live in cairo. ivan, what is the latest on mubarak s condition? reporter: th ....