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first being sworn in and then not telling the truth. >> do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth so help you god? >> yes, i do. >> do you have any financial means where you can assist in those costs? >> not that i'm aware of. >> well, because the judge believed the zimmermans to be strapped for cash, he was granted a low bail, $150,000 of which he only had to pay $15,000 out of pocket. what mrs. zimmerman did not say is that the couple had more than $150,000 in donations in a paypal account. >> and the defendant through ms. zimmerman lied to this court. about the amount of money they had. now, i would argue to the court that that is an egregious violation in terms of the representations that were made to this court. it was misleading. and i don't know what other words to use other than it was a blatant lie. >> in addition, the court has transcripts of a call, a telephone call that george
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zimmerman and his wife allegedly -- where they were talking in code about money, talking in hundreds when in fact they had -- were actually talking about tens of thousands of dollars. quote, in my quote do i have at least $100 george asked? no, it's more like $155. what they were talking about is $100,000 and $155,000. there's also the question of zimmerman's passport. he handed an expiring one over to the court. and kept a second, more recent one. none of it sat well with judge lester. he had this to say to the defense attorney, mark o'mara. the judge asking does your client get to sit there like a potted palm and let you lead me down the primrose path? moments ago i spoke with mr. o'mara and benjamin crump. have you spoken to george zimmerman since today's hearing? >> yes, i have. >> what was his response? >> you know, frustrated because he's -- he now has to come out
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of the hiding he's in. he understands the court's ruling. i have had a good conversation with him about i. -- it. we're going to have a conversation with the judge to explain it away and hopefully that will be worthwhile and get back out on bond. >> does he admit that he tried to mislead the court or does he say he tried to mislead the court? >> well, there's no question that they knew about the money. actually, in a previous correspondence to the judge we had acknowledged that. the question of whether or not they presented it properly i think it was somewhat misleading to the court. i have gone over that with george. i think he needs to realize we're still talking about a 28-year-old who, you know, is being charged with a crime he does not believe he committed and his whole life has been turned upside down. so i think it needs to be kept in context. >> the prosecutor though is saying that he and his wife had phone conversations that they knew were likely being recorded because he was in prison at the time. and that she was actually at the
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bank where the paypal account was and that they were talking in code. which it seems -- is relatively sophisticated if that's true. >> well, the code that they were using to the extent that they were using a code, if you read the transcripts if they were talking about $180,000, they were talking about $18, or $90 was $9. so i don't think that it was a particularly sophisticated code that they were using. and again, as i have said before, if in fact they were trying to deceive the judge with some intent to hide away the money, i don't believe that they would have turned it over five days late when the first conversation about it actually occurred. >> ben, how important a ruling do you think this is? >> well, i certainly think this is the most important ruling thus far. >> the most important, how so? >> the most important thus far because it makes us focus on the credibility of george zimmerman which is the central issue in
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this case. because everybody looks at the evidence, the only evidence that trayvon -- that george zimmerman issued is his version. and the other evidence, the 911 call, the situation where he says he did not get out of his car, he's pursuing trayvon, he confronts trayvon. those are george zimmerman's words, that trayvon attacked him. i think it's very important, the ruling that the judge gave out today based on the law. >> mark, does this hurt his credibility? i mean, if he was misleading in court and i mean, you down played this code. but it does show -- i mean, if it was an intentional desire to mislead somebody listening in on the phone, that's another example of being misleading. >> everybody's credibility who is going to ab witness in this case and even posthumously, trayvon martin's credibility is going to be an issue when we get
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in front of the jury and the fact that george zimmerman may have allowed a misrepresentation to occur can affect his credibility. i don't think it will get before the jury, but need to keep in mind what is really important in this case is the forensic evidence. the entirety of the evidence, which will include the eyewitness statements, the forensic evidence of the injuries, the forensic evidence regarding the gunshot. all of that is taken into context and one part of that, one facet is the credibility of all the people involved certainly should george decide to testify his credibility as well. >> mark, about the second passport, you say that zimmerman did what he needed to the and the responsibility of the court not knowing about it is your fault. how so? >> on the 26th, when i first talked to george and coincidentally i was talking to him about the money and the check. he told me about a second passport that they had found when they left the state. they gathered up all their
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belonging, left the state and uncovered a second passport. he told me about that. he forwarded it to me in a fedex package the second passport, and the check at one time. as it turns out, we have good documentation that it came to me on the 26th. on the 27th, i did a notice of filing to get that to the court. we were at court and literally it was left in my pleading file until this morning when bernie, the prosecutor, first said to me we found out about this second passport. i said, hold on, i have it. and i have had it since the 27th or 26th of april. my apologies but it's always been here. >> how did trayvon martin's family react to the news today? >> well, they were certainly relieved that zimmerman's bond would be revoked. and i just have to say this, anderson, with respect to mr. o'mara, there is going to be
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testimony that he -- that mr. -- the special prosecutor of the state, lied -- as the court said. that's relevant. nobody is going to say that trayvon martin lied in the court. nobody is going to say he gave out a material falsehood. i think that's important to this case. >> mark o'mara and benjamin crump, thank you both very much. >> thank you, anderson. let's dig deeper on this dramatic day in court. mark geragos and sunny hostin. as a criminal defense attorney, mark, i'm curious to get your take on what happened. has zimmerman done real damage to his case? if you hear benjamin crump he said this is the most important ruling because it totally destroys zimmerman's credibility about the night of the shooting. >> i think -- i don't think that it totally damages his credibility. is it bad? yes. there's no sugarcoating of it. i think you might remember, anderson, we talked about this, the night you led off.
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i think you reported first about the money that was in that account and i said at the time i know a lot of judges that would have remanded him into custody right there and then. so this judge gave him quite a bit of string to play out before remanding him into custody. and i would tend to agree with mr. crump, i think that it will -- if he takes the stand, this is something especially because it dealt with this judge in this courtroom, that's something this judge is going to let in. having said all of that, i don't think that it's going to be the death knell for the defense in this case. i think in at love way -- lot of ways that o'mara said, listen, i had the second passport and i brought it to the attention of the court and to mark's credit he hasn't laid it off to the prior lawyers but i think a lot can be laid off on the two clowns who were representing zimmerman before hand.
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they should have said, when you go into custody, remember something, they're taping everything you say. don't think you're going to outsmart the cops or the prosecutors by talking in code or anything else. it's the first thing you tell a client when they're in custody is don't talk to me, don't talk to anybody when you're on the phone about material facts or anything else that the prosecution is going to have unless you want that broadcast on cnn the next day. >> mark o'mara is a good attorney and he's trying to do the best he can. because he was misled, clearly, by george zimmerman because he didn't know about this money, he wouldn't have gone into court making this argument had he known about this money. but he's now arguing, well, you know, it was ant very complicated code they were talking in. whether it was complicated or smart code north, it does seem like he and his wife were trying to mislead the court. >> it certainly seems like that. and the judge found that. you know, i have a copy of the motion in front of me. i think it's pretty clear that they not only knew that they
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were being taped, that they tried to be evasive about that. they were sort of trying to speak in code. and i have got to tell you, anderson. i do think that it's significant, the judge revoking his bond and saying that he had been dishonest and misled the court. should this case have a stand your ground hearing that's a hearing in front of the judge. so it will be the judge's determination as to whether or not george zimmerman is going to immunity from prosecution. and so i think that it is very significant that now this judge has been placed in a position that he believes that george zimmerman can be dishonest. if this case is about seldefense, the only version of events that leads one to believe self-defense is george zimmerman. so credibility is everything. >> exactly. >> if this gets to a jury trial, mark, this could be brought in? this would be brought in? >> well, i think sunny brings up a brilliant point.
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i apologize for having to agree with her. >> thank you, mark. >> but -- i know. it's friday. you know, i'm looking forward to the weekend, sunny. the problem here is is it became a lot more likely now that there will be a jury trial. sunny's right. i have been saying for a long time that i thought he stood a real chance, a significant chance, of getting this case thrown out at the stand your ground hearing. well, what judge is going to want to believe anything that somebody tells him when he's willing to equivocate and that's the euphemism here on the bond hearing? so i think it's a lot more likely that this thing goes to trial and it is likely that a judge lets this in to a trial because the judge is going to say, look, this guy has been in front of me with the same lawyer, the same prosecutor, in front of the same judge on the same fact pattern, and told me stuff that was not true or that i found not to be true. that's -- you know, it's not a good day for the defense. >> well, we'll leave on a happy note of agreement between you
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keeping them honest now on the campaign trail. may unemployment numbers came out. if you haven't heard it already, they're pretty grim. only 69,000 jobs created. the worst in a year. the jobless rate increasing to 8.2%. not good numbers for the country, the white house or the obama campaign. >> the economy's growing again, but it's not growing as fast as we want it to grow. our businesses have created almost 4.3 million new jobs over the last 27 months, but as we learned in today's jobs report, we're still not creating them as fast as we want. and just like at this time last year, our economy is still facing some serious head winds. >> president obama there talking about head winds today. mitt romney calling the numbers
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in his words devastating. >> this is very bad news for the american people, and the president is always quick to find some of the blame. first it was george bush, then it was congress, atm machines, europe. he's always got someone. but the truth is the job of the president is to get america back to work. >> you can argue about who is to blame. it is true the president's job is to get america back to work, one of the jobs of the president. the economy is likely the issue that will decide this election. there's a slim three-point obama lead. mitt romney has been saying something repeatedly that is not factually correct. here he is last night on cbs news. >> of course domestically it's hard to call, what, now, 39, 40 months of unemployment above 8% a success when even he said by now it would be in the 6% range. and by now it is not. it's over 8.
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>> mr. romney has made this something of a theme stating it in a number of different ways. watch. >> he said if we let him borrow $787 billion he'd keep it below 8%. the stimulus, by the way, borrowing $787 billion, the president said that would hold unemployment below 8%. he would keep unemployment below 8%. it has not been below 8% since. he borrowed $787 billion right off the bat for a stimulus. said if he was able to do that, he would hold unemployment below 8%. the so-called stimulus that didn't stimulate, that that would hold unemployment below 8%. >> you can decide for yourself how well or how poorly president obama has been handling the unemployment issue. mitt romney has been claiming barack obama has indicated that namely his policies namely the stimulus, would keep the unemployment rate below 8%. that's just not true. when house speaker john boehner
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made the same statement, they said they could find no one saying that the stimulus would keep the unemployment rate down below 8%. "the washington post" fact checker gave it three pinocchios. they said the romney website refutes their candidate's own claim. they attribute it not to president obama or then candidate obama, but to a projection, not a promise, written about the effects of a possible stimulus by two members of the transition team on january 9th before then mr. obama took office. the two staffers, jared bernstein and christina romer would go on to become top economic advisors in the new administration. back to that very real and troubling unemployment number, politics is all about the trend. after three straight months, the bad economic news, the trend is working against president obama and for governor romney, no doubt about it. joining us now republican strategist, mary madeline, jen saki. jen was deputy communications director in the obama white
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house. jen, the president may not have promised unemployment would be below 8% by now, but you probably thought it would be, didn't you? didn't everybody at the white house? >> look, there are predictions made early on where nobody knew how deep the hole was. since that time 4.3 million jobs have been created. that's strong record to stand on. i think most people in the white house today and people across the country were disappointed to see the numbers today. of course they wanted them to be better. that's why the president has called for more steps and for congress to move forward on more steps to help the economy continue moving forward. >> mary, the obama campaign is focusing on mitt romney's record of job creation as governor of massachusetts.
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has arrived. since -- >> an extraordinary verdict on this day. an iconic day for the arab spring. hosni mubarak who ruled a one-party police state for 30 years and has become now first arab leader to be put on trial by his own people in an covengsal court of law has been sentenced to life in prison. our cairo correspondent chief ben wedeman has been watching this unfold for ten months. ben, this is a stunning result. >> reporter: it is stunning, and it is a verdict that has pleased hundreds of anti-mubarak people
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outside the court. as soon as they heard he received a life sentence, huge cheers went up and now i see in front of me a group of people dancing, jumping up and down. earlier they were firing fireworks. now most of these people who i have spoken with actually were saying they wanted a death sentence. in fact, there are men walking around here with nooses to emphasize that point, but it does appear and you can hear it in fireworks. it does appear they are satisfied by the verdict. even by the tone of the judge, it did appear he was going to come out with a fairly harsh sentence, contrary to the expectations of others. i see clearly away on the other side of the peace barrier, there are other -- there are loyalists of hosni mubarak. they're waving around pictures
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of the president. obviously a different spirit over there compared to the celebrations compared to this side of barrier. jonathan. >> once again, if you're just joining us. an extraordinary thing. after serving for three decades as dictator of egypt, hosni mubarak has been put on trial for offenses and conspiracy to murder after just six days of the regime. the court case has been chaotic at times. there were questions at times whether the state had proven its case against the former president but as just heard he's been sentenced to life in prison. the judge quoting koran before handing down the sentence saying truth has now arrive and falsehood perished. mubarak is on trial along with his foreign interior minister along with his son around foreign officials but an extraordinary thing. a close aide of his who, in
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fact, is in the running to be mubarak's successor. ben, this will have enormous influence, this court case, across the arab world, but coming as it does in the middle of a presidential election, how is this going to affect egypt? >> certainly it's going to strengthen the position of those egyptians absolutely adamantly opposed to the selection of mubarak's former prime minister as president of egypt. it's a very volatile situation at the moment because now they're faced with a very sparse point in the election between the muslim brotherhood candidate, very widely referred to as what's known as a remnant of the old regime, but the old regime certainly has taken a severe blow at this trial today.
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a far harsher verdict than many people expected. definitely a repudiation of the legacy of hosni mubarak who as we said was in powerecause he ht
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spent day behind bars. he's been at a medical center outside cairo in a luxury wick of that hospital, attended to 24 hours a day by doctors and nurses. apparently his wife regularly brings in home cooked food. and according to reports in the egyptian media, all indications are that regardless of that, he will continue to be in this medical center. the question is -- of course, we don't know the answer. what sort of prison will he serve out. not at all clear at this point, jonathan. >> as we're talking, we're looking at live pictures from
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the court outside the court. we can see mubarak in sunglasses, unflinching, his face showing no emotion, defiant, robbed of his dignity, treated like a prisoner after decades as president. hosni mubarak literally unflinching as he hears from the court. we haven't heard mump from him during the course of the trial. we may hear from him today. we may hear from the defendants f certainly we're hearing from those in attendance. let's listen in for a moment. [ chanting ]
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[ chanting ] >> hosni mubarak has left the court. it seems like the judges have left as well, but we can see the spectators chanting, screaming. to be honest, i can't make out what they're saying. ben wedeman, if you're still with us, can you make out what they're saying? >> reporter: no, i'm not sure what man you're looking at. i don't have a television in front of me, jonathan. certainly before they were just shouts of joy and celebration. here on the outside of the court when the news came out. and before that, in fact, people had been shouting -- chanting "the people want the execution of the post-president."
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i i'm going to jump in. the read we have on this from arabic speakers is the court is not legitimate, the verdict is not legitimate. if you're just joining us, these men are up in arms because former egyptian president hosni mubarak has been snechbsed to life in prison. mubarak himself has been taken from the court on a gurney. but we can see the uproar in the court itself. this has been a chaotic and tumultuous court case. observers wondered what kind of justice it would hand down because they said the case against mubarak was not clearly made, the evidence against him was not convincing. the prosecutors had complained, in fact, they didn't have the cooperation of the country's own interior ministry, which is to say even though he was being prosecuted elements inside the government were not cooperating with his prosecution, nonetheless the judge in very
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stern tones sentencehood imto life in prison, [ shouting ] >> if you're just joining us,
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this is the uproar in court, a courtroom on the outskirts of cairo. pressed into duty for the trial of hosni mubarak. that trial is now over. just moments ago we saw the judge hand down a sentence against a toppled egyptian president and his co-defendants. hosni mubarak is sentenced at age 84 to life in prison. this crowd of spectators rose up and began screaming and chanting the court is not legitimate, the verdict is not legitimate. in the ten months that this trial has been under way off an on, we have seen first fights and stone-throwing encounters outside of the courtroom, but now that the verdict has been reached, we're literally seeing the uproar inside the courtroom itself.
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>> the news agency reports that authorities had been expected civil disorder of a certain kind
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or at least fearing it on this day and have positioned thousands of police officers and troops to be ready in case there were unruly crowds, but maybe they weren't expecting one in court itself. we're not seeing a lot of uniformed security forces inside the court. it seems like the spectators and court officials are trying their best to re-establish order, but if you're just joining us once again, the reason for your this is the verdict handed down just moments ago by the judge in the case of toppled egyptian president hosni mubarak. we've been watching live pictures there from egyptian television. i'm jonathan mann. just moments ago we saw in a more orderly moment a sentence handed down. i think we have that. let's look at that again now. >> translator: the ruling of the court that to sentence the accused without the second
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defendant. first, to punish hosni mubarak with imprisonment for the charges that was given in his per it is passion in the acts of murder. >> an extraordinary thing. after three decades in charge hosni mubarak is charged with conspiracy of murder, bribery, and abice of power. mubarak sat impassively as we can see on that hospital gurney. he has been on that gurney, that stretcher since the start of the trial, and now that a verdict has been reached, he's been taken from the courtroom itself. ben weedermen, our correspondent chief has been watching along with us. ben, this is in all of the extraordinary challenge we have seen in the arab spring a red letter day. >> reporter: it certainly is a
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red letter day. this is the first time there -- a president of an arab state has been punished, found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. jonathan? ben, we watched that verdict being read out. there were a number of other verdict. he was on trial with another deft and his two sons. his two sons have been acquitted. i was told that is, in fact, when the tu multistartmalt happ court roochlt it happened when the two sons were let off. is that your understanding? >> reporter: yes. our understanding is when they found them innocent of all
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charges. that certainly set off in the court and soured the mood also outside in the parking lot we watched things being thrown at the security. things are very tense right now. hossmy mubarak was charged in a separate case of insider trading. you don't know when that is. they're not off the hook so far. >> ben wedeman speaking on the outskirts of cairo. we're speaking of two other figures, the two sons of mubarak. gamal mao back, 47 years old. he was seen as the heir and his older brother, elam, a
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businessman. they have been charged. we learned of this just a few days ago -- in a different case with insider trading, and though they have been acquitted today, it's not expected or wasn't expected they would go free because they're still facing very serious charges related to insider trading and hundreds of millions of dollar they're said to have in swiss bank accounts. while we're telling you this, we're looking at two different images, hosni mubarak being wheeled from the courthouse and then on this day showing some of the passion but maybe a little less than what we had seen earlier in this case. there had literally been stone-throwing outside testify court between opponents and those for the president. on this day we can still see people with their nerves frayed, having to be calmed down. the big turmoil was inside the court and these when mubarak's two sons were acquitted.
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once again, if you're just joining us, an extraordinary day, 15 months after he was toppled, hosni mubarak has been sentenced to life behind bars. stern judge in a somber courtroom that then turned into the scene of an uproar. mubarak is to spend the rest of his life in prison but as our ben wedeman has been telling us, sense his arrest, he's been in luxurious hospital accommodations. as you see, he's been complaining of cancer and heart trouble. still the judge was unsparing and in a case that many people thought was surprisingly week and was only six days of his 30-year hold on power he sentenced him to life behind bars. the rest of his interior defense heard the sentencing. given all of the tumult and
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chaos we had seen earlier. this is not the first day of justice in the arab spring. justice has been handed down in ways both orderly and less so. libyan leader moammar gadhafi died at the hands of his people. tunisia's ex-president was tried. saddam hussein was tried, convicted and hung in a special tribunal after his country was invaded by international forces. but egyptians themselves in a conventional egyptian criminal court have put their own former leads on trial. their own former prime minister has been tried and convicted. today it was their president hosni mubarak, a man who was so closely associated with the enduring leadership of the arab world, man whose downfall now speaks volumes about the enormous changes under way. our cairo bureau chief ben wedeman has been every step of the way in a the arab spring and enormous changes in egypt and he's at the courthouse today. ben, an enormous signal of what
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may be ahead for the people of egypt, a day many will hope they saw justice delivered. >> reporter: yes, certainly it's big day for the people of ee jiptd, a historic day. but, of course, right out here outside the court it is very tense. already we've seen people running back and forth, some of the protesters are throwing rocks in the direction of the security forces in some cases. just a few minutes ago we saw a young man run by here saying we're sorry, mr. president, and that sparked a fairly violent first fight right next to us. so emotions are very high because you have to keep in mind, not everybody in ee jiptd feels that hosni mubarak deserves this kind of punishment. in fact, not far from here on the other side of the police barrier, there are hundreds of mubarak loyalists who came here to express their support for the
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deposed egyptian president. i spoke to several of them, many of them implying that the revolution that brought don house hosny mubarak was a plot, a plot from inside of egypt, a plot from outside of egypt to brick him down. so egyptians are by no means united when it comes to what they think should be the fate of hosni mubarak. jonathansome. >> now, just to be complete about this, mubarak was not the only one on trial. in fact, a whole list of men were in that defendant's cage along with him. they were acquitted. his sons were acquitted. mubarak himself convicted of conspiracy for murdering those who rose up against him and convicted of a corruption charge. on this day, a mixed verdict in this case, although hosni mubarak is to spend the rest of his life behind bars unless he's
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successful on appeal. >> reporter: that's correct. of course, there is an appeal process in place should he desire to, and surely he will. what's significant is that his interior minister and somebody who many egyptians felt was really the mastermind behind the crackdown against the revolutionaries, he also got a life snerchentence, but think w angered many of the people here was that his senior advisers and assistants were actually found not guilty. also angering the people is the fact that hosni mubarak's two sons were found completely insoemt of all charges. now, as we've mentioned, they've also been charged with insider trading. but this was, as many egyptians called it. the trial of the century. this was the critical trial where history, they felt, and the people of egypt, would pass
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their verdict upon hosni mubarak and his closest advisers. so mem m people happy about the verdict but others, very much, of course angered here, jonathan. >> like so much that has happened in the last 15 months as you say, ben, this has been -- seemed like a compromised procedure. andi and, in fact, a man who seemed like before the victory was announced he would like to see another trial because he considered this trial so badly organized. he said literally i affirm the necessity of retrying these people so, though the verdict has been handed down, the controversy began before and will likely continue after. >> reporter: i'm absolutely
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certain it will continue. of course, he'll be facing runoff elections on the 16th and 17th of june against the finally -- the last prime minister of hosni mubarak, very much considered a man of hosni mubarak. and, of course, many people think that if he becomes prime minister -- or president of egypt, if he becomes president of egypt, he may call for a retrial and perhaps hope for a much lighter sentence. so the situation is very much in flux at this point given that we're in this third period, this transitional period between civilian rule and rule at the moment by the supreme council of the around forces which, of course, is a body of generals, all of whom who rose through the ranks during the time of hosni mubarak. jonath jonathan? >> in fact, even the prosecutor was ruled by hosni mubarak and
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the courthouse where he was tried was named for hosni mubarak. also hotels. let me ask you, what's ahead for hosni mubarak? >> reporter: it's very difficult to say. it's true, egyptian prisons are certainly not five-star hotels, but dpengd who you are, you may find yourself in much less conditions. we understand his sons alaa and gamal are in southern cairo but living in fairly decent conditions. they're having their meals catered by the four seasons. one of the prisoners, one of the senior prisoners of hosni mubarak was found in a cell with an ipad. so there are prisoners and there are prisoners and given that
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hosni mao back, post president of egypt does have people who are still loyal to him, many people within the government itself. i don't think we'll be seeing him doing hard labor out in the yard as he carries out this sentence, jonathan. >> senior international correspondent and cairo bureau chief ben wedeman watching an extraordinary day outside of the court along with us. and for our viewers in the united states on cnn usa, we have been wanting to culmination of the trial against hosni mubarak. on and off again at times which ended with a guilty verdict of egypt's longtime leader and a sentence behind bars. his sons were kuwaited, many of his colleagues were inquited. through all the months of the arab spring, there have been extraordinary days, extraordinary changes, many egyptians never thought their president would face justice. many thought in trial, on trial he would never be found guilty.
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hosni mubarak found guilty and sentenced at age 84 to life behind bars. our viewers in the united states. we'll return now to regular programming. i'm susan hendricks with a fierce bulletin. a storm pounding the town of bellaire, buildings collapsed, roofs torn off. at least four people were hurt. the u.n. human rights council has authorized an investigation into the massacre last week of 108 syrian civilians in hula. russia, china, and cuba ruled against that revolution. a claim at odds with survivor accounts. and the american soldier accused of murdering 16 civilians and afghanistans in march is now accused of abusing steroids and
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alcohol. part of the defense may focus how about wall street, it had its bloodiest day this year with stocks dropping 2% following ugly jobs report. the dow lost 275 points for the day. erasing all of its gains for the year. baseball history tonight in new york city. >> he struck him out! >> it has happened. in their 51st season, johan santana has thrown the first no-hitter in new york mets history. >> and there it is, johan santana struck out david freese on the 134th pitch of the game for the final out of the 8-0 win. congratulations to johan santana and the mets. up next, you don't want to miss it. a special birthday surprise for anderson. keep it here. free streaming quo, all your investments, positions, and even your trade ticket are all on one customizable page. see the all-new 360 investing dashboard at e-trade.
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time for the ridiculist. tonight we're adding the miss u.s.a. pageant which is taking place sunday in las vegas. that's right. i'm putting the pageant preemptively on the ridiculist. that's how i roll on friday nights. >> yeah. >> what's going on? >> hold up. come on now.
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you had to know this was coming. >> i actually didn't. i actually didn't. i totally did not know. >> no the ridiculist tonight because it's your birthday. >> good lord. i didn't even think this was going to happen. i really had no idea this was going to happen. >> honestly, how do you not know that every year we're going to set out to get you? come on now. you see, the music's playing. you've got the confetti and you're already giggling. >> bob is just running around. all right. >> last year, as you know, mr. cooper, we gave you a dog and pony show literally. >> yes. yes, there was a dog and pony show. >> don't worry about the confetti. you look great. so i come bearing cake and look what else. >> oh, this was the dog and pony show. yes, i do remember this. >> you see the things we do for you. >> yes. yes. i appreciate that. thank you. >> it's not over yet. >> are we done? >> no. >> we have an extra special
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guest for you. let's see if you know who it is. >> really? >> waaahhhoooo. wild action! >> are you kidding me? turtle man? oh, my god. >> yeah, buddy, what's up? >> yes, indeed. >> turtle -- i can't believe, turtle man, you're here. and, geez, that's a big turtle. >> watch out, buddy. that's live action. >> that's live what? >> live action there. don't grab any. >> live what? >> live action end. >> live action end. i don't understand -- >> this thing will snap it off. >> it will snap your hand plum off, dude. >> i've followed you for years. >> that's why i came here tonight. >> this was in new york's park. i caught it out of the pond. i almost got in trouble, man. the cops got after me. i run in here. luckily we got these studio guys that was taking up -- >> how did you get this through
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tsa security? >> they knew me. >> they saw turtle man coming. they were like, let him through. just let him through. >> let him through because they knew you was a big fan. they wanted me to see you. live action! anderson cooper just got him some. wahoo! >> wow. >> what do you think about it? >> i am stunned. i am stunned, yeah. the turtle is blocking my key light but that's okay. i'm not too worried about that. how did you start -- how did you become turtle man? how did you start -- how did you know that you had a skill to catch turtles? >> uncle phillip taught me when i was a little kid, seven years old, and i just taught myself some new techniques. >> have you ever been bitten? >> oh, yeah, i've been bit through the hand there. through the hand there. seven stitches. got bit through the pulse there. i nearly bled to death. had it cauterized. it wouldn't quit bleeding. >> you had to cauterize your own wound. >> i went to the doctor. >> you went to the doctor.
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>> before we run out of time, i hate to break up the turtle romance, but we can't have a birthday without a cake. we brought you a turtle. we had the cake boss, the real cake boss -- pay attention, cooper. >> i'm listening. >> we had the actual cake boss put one together. >> wahooo. >> they whipped up a cake. let's bring it out. >> that is crazy. >> birthday cake, man. >> how are you? how's it going? >> the cake man. >> this one don't bite. >> that is crazy. wow. >> ain't that neat? >> let me go stand next -- let me quickly go stand next to this thing. see how it goes. >> let's see. >> see how this looks. there you go. there's turtle. look at that. wow. is this all really edible? >> yeah. >> wow. >> going to eat this here. >> turtle man, thank you so much. appreciate it. thank you so much. >> okay.
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you can see more tomorrow on cake boss which airs monday at 9:00 p.m. on tlc. also thanks to turtle man. he has new episodes this sunday, at 10:00 p.m. >> thank you, everyone. hello, america. don't adjust your set. i'm bill maher filling in for piers morgan. tonight i'm talking to the guy who created "family guy." seth mcfarlane. no one else could make a movie about a man and his teddy bear and get an r rating. >> you're so raunchy. >> thank you. i try. we all try. >> also tonight, cycling legend seven time tour de france winner and a man who's battled cancer and won, lance armstrong, he's here to talk about his life after cycling. have you ever been in bad shape your whole life? >> yeah, i've been in bad shape. never as unfit as some people.

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