welcome, everybody. it is friday, july 15th. i m soledad o brien. you are watching snoonk kiran is off, christine is off, welcome soledad. good to see you. thank you. we have a lot to do today. let s get right to it. serious new pressure on rupert murdock and his global media empire. the justice department says it s now investigating the claims that one of its tabloids tried to hack 9/11 victims phones. a report in another british tabloid, the mirror quoting a source who says news of the world, the newspaper which folded under the pressure of the hacking scandal, hired an investigator to try to tap the phones. now lawmakers, law enforcement, and 9/11 families are all demanding the truth. susan candiotti following the latest for us on this and breaking, one casualty of the news international, rebekah brooks has resigned. the question is, does this mean that the walls are crumbling at news corp. it s too early to say, bulls this is a crack in the wall. she was a prot
welcome, glad you re with us this morning. it is wednesday, july 6th. i m sure like you all, like the rest of the country, we were riveted yesterday, 2:15 was the time that verdict came in, not guilty in the casey anthony trial. i heard that there were people in the streets who don t even follow the stuff and stopped and went to the first place for tv. i was at the dentist and the place stopped business. a liar but not a murderer. the verdict few people expected, casey anthony acquitted of capital murder, manslaughter and child abuse in the death of her 2-year-old daughter caylee. a florida jury deliberating for just under 11 hours, convicted her only on four misdemeanor counts of lying to police. casey anthony will be sentenced tomorrow and because of the time that she s already spent behind bars, anthony could be released as early as that. we have reaction to the stunning verdict beginning with david mattingly live in orlando. good morning, david. good morning, ali.
i m drew griffin. happy to be here. thank goodness it s friday, right. talks on the verge of collapse this morning. with weeks to go before the nation supposedly can no longer pay off its debt a key republican walked away from the talks hosted by the vice president biden. dan lothian following the president live in pittsburgh this morning, dan? yes, that key republican eric cantor walking out of those talks. you know, this is, obviously, a critical moment in the 7 week old talks and republicans are blaming democrats for talking about tax hikes. speaker boehner saying tax hikes are completely off the table. you heard the president while on the road last night several fund-raisers bring up the point that there needs to be a balanced approach in order to reach a solution here. the president also pointing out that over the next several weeks, this whole situation was really going to start heating up and those were the words that the president used. but, what the administrat