ramming their car into a small plane to stop it from taking off. it was carrying more than $100,000 worth of smuggled electronic goods. jury deliberations are set to begin in the trial of conrad murray. after lawyers from both sides made their final arguments to the jury. we get more now that nbc s stephanie stanton. reporter: the fate of dr. conrad murray now rests in the hands of the jury, who must decide if the doctor is criminally responsible in the death of pop star michael jackson. michael jackson trusted conrad murray. reporter: on thursday the prosecution presented its closing arguments to the jury. every single doctor that testified in this courtroom told you they would never do what conrad murray did. every single doctor. because they know it could lead to death. reporter: david walgren
hour two happening right now. you can see sheriff lutz holding a press conference in zanesville, ohio. here is sheriff lutz. the experience that they have, i believe at one point they told me it was over 100 years over 100 years of experience of dealing with animals and that s far more than what we have. so it s been great to have them here. i ve prepared a little bit of a statement. it s going to be different things that we ve been thinking about that we wanted to get out to you and we ll take some questions afterwards. first of all, alt this point, still i have no new information on the death of mr. thompson. we are still waiting on autopsy reports, which is not uncommon. we still feel our earlier preliminary report is what we are sticking with and we have no new evidence that would indicate anything different with that. let s get right to the animal totals. as i said earlier, the numbers we reported earlier, 48 to 52, was sketchy and it was. the number of animals that
the white house decided not to send congress all of the related documents to the solyndra loan. this has to do with the president himself, doesn t it? this means members of congress are not going to get a glimpse of what is on the president s blackberry or anymore internal documents from the white house relate to the solyndra loans. two investigators asked the white house to release all of the internal documents, anything that mentioned the solyndra loan whatsoever and send them to captiol hill. the white house counsel sent a letter to them this afternoon. we got a copy of it and it says, we re not going to do this. we re not going to send you the documents because you have 70,000 pages of documents from agencies, 900 pages from inside the white house and to be bottom line it for you, erin, this is consistent with other administrations. we have always heard of executive privilege. the president always protects, traditionally the right of their advisers to give them unvarn
solyndra loan. this has to do with the president himself, doesn t it? this means members of congress are not going to get a glimpse of what is on the president s blackberry or anymore internal documents from the white house relate to the solyndra loans. two investigators asked the white house to release all of the internal documents, anything that mentioned the solyndra loan whatsoever and send them to captiol hill. the white house counsel sent a letter to them this afternoon. we got a copy of it and it says, we re not going to do this. we re not going to send you the documents because you have 70,000 pages of documents from agencies, 900 pages from inside the white house and to be bottom line it for you, erin, this is consistent with other administrations. we have always heard of executive privilege. the president always protects, traditionally the right of their advisers to give them unvarnished advice. so this isn t that big of a surprise but expect political fireworks a
developing news. we are watching the trial of conrad murray where we expect to hear a police interview never made public and he describes the final hours of jackson s life. a presidential first, they want president obama to turn over e-mails he sent about solyndra, the failed solar company. remembering steve jobs. the apple icon s biography will not be released for a few weeks and already number one. a historic accomplishment. marcia anderson is the first african-american woman to be a two-star general in the army. a house committee that may be setting up at the moment a legal battle with the white house over privileged information. at issue the request for e-mail