recanted testimony, most claiming police coercion. amnesty international and naacp delivered petitions with 650,000 names on them to the georgia board of pardons and paroles in atlanta. the petitions seek clemency for davis. >> they have the opportunity and the authority to weigh in and to make sure that the state of georgia does not carry out what could be an unimaginable and irreversible mistake. >> joining me now, managing editor is also an msnbc contributor. thank you for being here. when we look at the latest plea, do we think there might be another delay and maybe progress on clemency? >> if you look at the facts of the case, we think so. this was sent back by the u.s. treatment court. they have death penalty cases and ask the appeals court to look at it again. 7 out of 10 recanted testimony.

the appeals court found it was the burden of proof to prove that in fact troy davis was innocent rather than the other way around, the burden of proof being on the prosecution. he couldn't meet that bar. so far there is not a lot of positive movement out of the georgia board of paroles. no one has interviewed them. >> three times before has he not exhausted all the possibilities in terms of the way the law works there in the state? >> he exhausted all of his appeals. his case has gone to the supreme court and they ruled that while his case is troubling and not certain, that's troubling to a lot of people who said the court itself said his guilt is not certain and yet they were allowing this execution to go forward next wednesday. >> remind us, this is about the death sentence specifically. is that correct? >> this is about the death sentence. whether or not it had a new trial to be found not guilty. the problem is as you said, he

exhausted all of his appeals and there is no other place to go. >> he was so close. let me ask you this. how does this chapter differ from the previous ones. now that we're looking at today versus the other three appeals. >> the difference is the public pressure. one of the things we used to take a look at is how the death penalty has gone off. not the ricky ray rekter case where bill clinton flew home to complete an execution or the timothy mcveigh case. this is the first time you have seen a huge public outcry. >> no physical evidence links him to the crime. >> the gun casing that was consistent with a previous crime. he maintained his innocence throughout. >> very good. thank you so much and contributor for msnbc. thanks for stopping by for the latest. the reverend al sharpton will be live from atlanta on the show

that is tonight on 6:00 p.m. eastern. the u.s. supreme court stopped texas from convicting a double murderer. pete williams will have details about that story and the controversy coming up at the bottom of the hour. the results of a dna test could answer a 10-year-old mystery in new mexico. what happened to robbie romero? he vanished more than a decade ago when he was 7 years old. he was presumed dead and an 18 year old told police he is romero. he agreed to give a swab of saliva for dna testing. >> i think it will be a total life-changing to have him back in our family again. just introducing him to his brothers and sisters. i believed in my heart if robbie ever came home, he would not be

a found person. he would have a lot of issues. >> michelle, when we hear stories like this, it's amazing and at the same time skepticism. >> there is. there is a lot of dynamics going on in this case. i spoke with captain wheeler from the police department who gave me a detailed break down on the investigation. how it all went down. the new robbie came forward about two days ago. actually they were led to him through an anonymous tip. what he did was met over at evelyn's house, robbie romero's mom. he was cooperative for about 30 minutes. gave a dna sample and when police wanted to take his picture, he said no, i'm done with this. i'm out of here and he left and hasn't been cooperative since. they have the dna. it's going to take about 48 hours for the results to come back. you have to recommend that robbie romero's father who is deceased and his older brother

who is decease and his mother. we will know soon here within the next two days whether this is in fact robbie romero. >> his older brother that was again going missing, he was one of the suspects early on. >> he was. he was arrest and put away for drugs for about a year. he actually said that hey, look. i'm going to tell you where the is. he recanted his story. this was a horrible roller coaster for the mother. then he died. while he was behind bars. there was a drug overdose. he kind of if he did have information, he took it to the grave. this case is unbelievable. if it is him, this is going to be another one of the instances that is jaycee dugard. eric hornbeck. so many cases that are like this. that could be like this. we will know very soon. >> very interesting story. so difficult for the mother, no

doubt. we are getting a better sense of how much administration officials believe a default of california sump solyndra would weigh on the obama administration. an office and budget official said the optics of a default will be bad. the timing will likely coincide with the 2012 campaign season heating up. kristin walker is live at the white house. that's quite a revelation from the e-mail. >> white house officials are pushing back again for the notion that there was anything political about this process. here's how this started. back in 2009, this energy company received about $500 million in a loan that was approved by the energy department that was all a part of the stimulus fund. then just about a month ago, that company went bankruptcy. now we will see the e-mails surface as a part of the

investigation. white house officials according to the e-mails were quite interested in the timing of the loan process. white house officials say they needed to know because vice president joe biden was going to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the company. house republicans see it differently. they think it's an indication that the white house was rushing this loan process. again today, white house press secretary carney pressed back against those allegations saying the loan was purely merit-based. richard? >> what about the chief of staff to switch gears here. there was criticism in politico about the chief of staff, bill daley. >> there has been criticism and rumblings that people are not happy with. said he doesn't have enough experience for this job. i have spoke tone folks on the hill that reiterated the notions. however white house press secretary jay carney at an often camera briefing earlier today

said that is absolutely not the case. i will quote him here. he said bill daly is an excellent chief of staff and fantastic leader internally and externally with policies and goals. of course this administration is coming under pressure right now. the unemployment rate is above 9% and approval ratings are down. this report not necessarily surprising, but the white house said there is absolutely no truth to it. >> at the white house, thank you. >> just earlier we were telling you about the effort to stop the execution of troy davis. he is scheduled to die next week in georgia. joining me now to talk more about this is al sharpton. following the story and the host of politics nation. reverend, thanks for being here. you have been reporting on this case and you had the opportunity to sit with troy davis as well as his mother. what did you learn?

>> i got involved in this case several years ago with the network and i met with troy davis once on death row once about two years ago with one of the local minsters. he stated unequivocally he was not involved in the killing of the officer, the off duty officer who all of us clearly want to see justice for. there is no one that is excusing the fact this man was killed and there should be a just resolve to that for his family. if troy davis is not the guilty party, that is not giving justice to the family. he was able through his sister and others to establish that he was convicted with no dna, no physical evidence, nothing that would approve him in a physical way connected to the killing.

the gun was never recover and he was convicted with the testimony of nine witnesses. seven of those witnesses have recanted and some of them have said they will coerce. one of the two that has not recanted has been accused by a couple of them that haven't been the who was the actual trigger man himself. on that kind of flimsy case, how do you execute a man? many of us are here and there will be a rally at the church martin luther king used to pastor and amnesty international and congressman john and others will be saying that you should not execute a man that clearly there is this much reasonable doubt in. >> reverend al, thank you so much. the host of politics nation. he will have much more on the troy davis case there live from atlanta on his show tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc.

thank you again. three men rushed to save a man in a wheelchair under attack by an angry swarm of bees. it's the second time this week that thousands of bees have gone on the attack. something making bees more aggressive this year. a new jobless report shows the unemployment rate in texas has gone up to the highest rate since 1987. could that be a blow to presidential hopeful, rick perry who has been boasting know his jobs record? nasa makes a stunning discovery out of a "star wars" movie. a new planet that has a double sunrise and a double sunset. saying "this planet broke the rule." we will talk about what that all means. just one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day

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>> less than a week before the united nations, they held over the seat by muammar gadhafi's government. rebel forces are bearing down on one of two strong holes held by gadhafi loyalists. one is the town of sert, gadhafi's hometown. we are following the developments from tripoli. >> how are you. if you hear the gunfire in the course of the support, it's celebratory gunfire. tripoli itself has been peaceful since gadhafi was driven out, but on green square adjacent to the town where we are, they have been celebrating. that's the gunfire you might hear. gunfire had to say in his hometown of se rta long the

tort, and in both instances, they have been waiting two weeks. either a negotiated surrender or to move in. they tried to move in. they tried to move in. they did go into the towns and met with heavy resistance. mostly sniper fire and machine gunfire and rockets for advancing vehicles that drove them back out and they have fallen back, the forces have. sert was worse. they took the airport about 10 miles south of town. when they tried to move in, they were roadside bombs and one detonate and killed the fighters and the others were driven back by a concentration of mortar fire. the war is not over. the leaders made that point that they will not issue a declaration until the fighting in both town is over. it's not over yet. it's celebratory and it's not

dangerous, but that is live in tripoli for us. thank you. a new campaign to encourage young people to get a college education. voices for change. it's the brain child of the honors society. the chapter at north lake community college in irving, texas. joining me now is an adviser at north lake community college. very interesting. tell us about the voices for change campaign and how it works. >> okay. really the voices for change campaign again is the brain child of our officers with the chapter. we begin by studying the issue of history and the future. as we begin looking at that, one of the questions that came up was how has the exchange of information helped the development of various cultures. as the students began discussing this issue, we realized that of all of the issues we talked

about, education was probably the most personality. >> how do you get them to take on that message and say yes, it is important to us? >> what we are doing is doing surveys and doing surveys and interviews with young people in the high schools and north lake college and asking questions. for example, is access on information on education available to you? is it something that is perhaps more cultural or is it economic? >> we got a sample of that to show all of our viewers. let's listen to part of the viewers. >> great. >> from who i was until now, it's a lot. it's basically to prove to myself that i can do it and i'm here for a reason. i'm not here to mess around.

i'm here to learn and see something for myself and my future. >> early on in the campaign and the research right now. any indication about how showing these videos to those who have questions about whether they should go to college, any evidence about how successful this might be going forward? >> it's going to be successful. there so many people that are first in their family to go to college. if they don't understand, how do they fill out the financial forms? do they understand if they go to community college first, they can get transfer scholarships and if you make good grades and get in, you can get full tuition scholarships. there is so much money out there for the young folks if they just know how to access it.

again, we remind you education nation kicks off in about a week and we will talk about that when it kicks off. you may call it a different jobs bill. president obama signing major legislation to help entrepreneurs. we have details next. >> seems like from jersey shore that have angered people from four straight seasons and a new season. taxpayers will foot a bill for production costs. that's today's gut check.

>> welcome back. "star wars" fans are rejoicing today a little bit over the discovery of a real life tattoo ine. scientists confirmed the existence using the kepular space telescope. that is about 200 light years

away from earth. it is not believed to support any. we are joined by the chief astronomer at the franklin institute. thanks for stopping by to try to help us understand what is so interesting. you go wow. one researcher said this planet broke the rule. what do you think he meant? >> what he is talking about is that it was supposed to be what was not possible by a planet orbiting a pair of stars. you have to double star system and that has really, really complex title forced involved in graph stational fields involved in things that was sort. the thought was since we hadn't seen anything like this before and the physics looked like it would not be possible. this was left to the imagination of folks like those at the industrialize magic put in a movie. >> as we look at the movie, is one sun resolving around another and the planet revolving around

that? how is it work something. >> that's how it works. there is a common point between the two stars called the barry center. they orbit around that point. now we see the planet itself orbits at a distance of 65 million miles away from this pair of stars and orbits around those two. it's exciting to see. >> how common is this? i was reading up on this. they found 2,000 eclipsing binaries. is that the two sons or something close? >> let's start with the basics. >> most are doubles or multiples. it's unusual for a star to be alone by itself like our sun, for example. >> we are a rarity. the idea of an eclipsing binary is common, but the in the that there could be planets orbiting around opening a new door of possibilities for

configurations, completely unexpected before. we are just new to the game of finding extra solar planets anyway. by finding this, it really sort of jumps up the excitement about what we can find. >> thank you. >> supreme court making last minute decision to stay the execution over racially charged statements made at his trial. could this have an effect? a massive recall with birth control pills. what you need to know in a few minutes. bl ical? major medical, boyyyy! [ beatboxing ] ♪ i help pay the doctor ♪ ain't that enough for you? ♪ there are things major medical doesn't do. aflac! pays cash so we don't have to fret. [ together ] ♪ something families should get ♪ ♪ like a safety net ♪ even helps pay deductibles, so cover your back, get... ♪ a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aflac! [ male announcer ] help protect your family at aflac.com.

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rivals ammunition against him. a huge swarm of tens of thousands of bees go on the attack twice on week out west. the u.s. supreme court issued a stave execution thursday night for a texas death row inmate. duane buck had eaten what he thought was his last meal. he was scheduled to be put to death for the 1995 murder of his former girlfriend and her male companion. his guilt is not in question, but his death sentencing hearing was racially painted. joining us now is pete williamson. how rare is this decision that we saw come down from the supreme court. the hearing was tainted because of a psychology that tomorrowed whether somebody would be a danger in the future is their race and what the defense

lawyers say that should never have been allowed to go to the jury and similar cases in which testimony was offered in those cases, the state of texas conceded an error was made. what the state said in this case is that the defense is the one who put on that psychologist and the defense is the that asked him about whether race is a factor, not the state. all the state did is ask the guy again. he referred to the testimony in the closing statements. the state said there wasn't a problem here. the defense is the 1 that caused the issue. none the less, the supreme court agreed to put a hold on the execution while it considers whether to take up this appeal. just to be clear here, his guilt is not a question as you pointed out. they are not asking for a new trial. the defense is asking for a sentencing hearing. the supreme court is deciding whether to grant that or look at his appeal and they put a hold on his execution while they

think about that. there is no deadline for the supreme court to act, but i would be surprised if we got the answer to that earlier than late october or november. >> they have time ahead of them, but very, very soon. pete williams, thank you so much with the latest on that. president obama signing a new bill into law today to stream line the patent process for new u.s. inventors and took a moment to promote the americans job act. >> i need everybody who is listening to tell congress to pass the americans job act. we came and we should be able to coming to to put people back to work. >> the president announced plans to help companies developing new life-saving drug companies to get the products to get them at a faster rate. rick perry said social security amounts to nothing more than a ponzi scheme. there is a new poll that shows how much his view on this issue

might hurt his run for the white house. the latest poll shows 32% of independents are less likely to vote for the governor because of his comments and thoughts on this subject. 19% of republican voters feel the same way. let's bring in deputy director mark murray. good friday to you. as we watch this debate go on, perry is responding to all of this by turning and going on the offense against mitt romney. let's listen to that response. >> governor romney's misguided health mandates slowed the income growth and cost massachusetts their job creation in that state is 47th in the nation. romney care has driven private insurance costs up by $4.3 billion. it costs taxpayers in iowa and across the country. think about what obama care will

do to this country. >> we see perry trying to distinguish themselves from romney, but at the same time he is making the comments about social security. do you think they will continue to dog them going forward? >> there will be a sx or seven-month battle against the most reliable conservative. perry or romney? you will see perry attack romney on health care saying what romney did is i depth cal to what president obama did on a federal level. you are seeing mitt romney take a shot on social security. the one thing and while social security may not be a good issue if he becomes a nominee, there was another poll that came out in bloomberg that showed 65% of voters believed that social security is a ponzi scheme. something that resonates with the republican electorate. it may not be a good general election issue, but there is the

dynamic that you see on who do republicans want? do they want somebody who agrees with them on the issues or who might seem as the most electable candidate? >> another that will take six to seven months to play out, this issue about jobs and being the candidate. there is new information coming out of texas that the jobless rate that we learned this afternoon, that increased to 8.5%. that's the highest level in more than 24 years. some might ask how perry will spend that. >> he would say look, it's still lower than the national average of 9.1%. he will be able to say over this period of time, texas created a million plus jobs while he was governor of texas. how he will transition and this is what i was talking about earlier, it will be more about governing philosophy than results. rick perry will say when i was governor, we had low taxes and little spending. look what i was able to achieve there.

look what mitt romney aided with while mitt romney was governor of massachusetts. that's that is probably more the line of attack. >> let's talk about the endorsements from jimmy carter. >> i hope he wins. i'm not taking a position, but i would be pleased to see him win the republican nomination. i don't think anyone is going to beat obama next year. my preference is for his faith not to be a factor in who is representing the republican party. >> the former president there yesterday and saying he likes romney. is this going to help romney or hurt him? >> i don't see how it can help that jimmy carter gives him the thumbs up in a republican primary. in at the end of the day, it won't matter. i doubt anyone like rick perry or bachman said mitt romney is

jimmy carter's favorite republican in the race. it was an interesting sound byte and i doubt it has legs in the months ahead. police in utah is where we take you to now. it's a plan to resume excavating a shallow grave that tops our look at stories around the nation. cadaver dogs focusing on the area of the utah desert as they search for a missing mom, susan powell. police have been unable to find human remains. she has been missing since december of 2009. >> generic drugmaker kwal test is looking at a packaging error that can lead to confusion on which pill to take. at this hour, the latest recipient of the congressional medal of honor is inducted into the hall of heroes at the pend gon.

president obama presented dakota meyer with the medal for saving fellow marines and afghan soldiers. >> four men in southern california are recovering for dozens of bee stings after coming under an attack. this started when a man in a wheelchair disturbed a hive containing about 60,000 bees. thousands of bees swarmed the man, knocking him out of his chair. three other men came to his rescue and were stong dozens of times. we are joined by gene robinson at the university of illinois. when we hear about stories like this, we think of movies. we think of the dreaded killer bees we heard about for so many year. is that what we are talking about here? >> this is an unfortunate incident and we hope for a speedy recovery for those involved. at this point it's too early to

say whether this is africanized bees or not. it's not out of the question. bees will generally leave people alone if there is a chance encounter and a sudden disturbance. there can be an arousal on the part of a honey bee colony. those that are most at risk are those not able to escape rapidly and so it sounds like that's something that happened here. this sounds like this was an unknown, undiscovered colony of bees that was come upon. >> this is uncommon. the person in the wheelchair, not the hive had thousands of bees attacking him. this is uncommon. >> this is extremely uncommon. usually the whereabouts are known and people can stay away from them. this is something that happens very rarely. there has been a lot of improvement in the ability of safety personnel to learn how to

control bees when they are coming in contact with people. if this would have happened and someone could have called someone to take care of them before this incident, it could have been avoided. >> let's talk about that. what should one do in this situation? what should one do? >> the simplest thing to do is to get away as fast as possible. >> you mean run or walk? >> yes, run. run away. if you are able to, you are able to outrun the bees. they will only pursue for a short distance. >> you can outrun the bees. interesting information. gene robinson at the research facility at the university of illinois. thank you. >> brat pitt is is a poll jazzing for harsh comments he made about his marriage to jennifer aniston. live in wells with the scoop. first, there is a lot going on today and here are things we

thought you should know. vice president biden will hit towns hit hard by tropical storm irene and lee. think being speaker of the house say tough job? john boehner compared on the hill with working at his father's bar in ojaiee. >> my dad owned a bar and i mobbed floors and did dishes and tended bar and did dishes. you have to learn to deal with every jackass who walks in the door. trust me, i need all the skills i learned to do my job. >> getting some laughs there. barry manilow visited to debut a new public service campaign taking part in the get back in rhythm campaign and talking for the first time about his experience with that disease. he saying a few lines from his hit song copa cabana. those are the things we thought you should know.

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washington can't agree on what planet each side is from. boehner and obama speak the same language on jobs? religion in the race, bunnies are back and it's happy hour. there is a lot going on so stay with us. back to richard. >> jennifer aniston's ex-apologizes for less than flattering comments about his marriage to jennifer aniston. charlie sheen sits down and hollywood gears up for the emmys. let's get to the scoop for the pop culture columnist. how are we doing? >> i'm doing great. how are you? >> let's start with brad pitt. those were unsavory comments he made. >> needless to say, we are doing better than brad pitt. he made a rookie move and did it

in these quotes to parade magazine that were less than flattering towards jennifer aniston. let's pull up what he said. he said it became very clear to me that i was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but i wasn't living an interesting myself. i think my marriage to jennifer aniston had something to do with it it, trying to pretend the marriage was something it wasn't. this is the opposite of flattering and the opposite of staying mum on the topic. he did a good job of doing up until now. what was he thinking exactly? that's what everybody said collective he and then he issued a statement that is an apology of sorts. it is an important relationship i value greatly. the paint is not that jen was dull, but i was becoming dull to myself and that i am responsible for. it's too little too late and a rookie move. you understand that this stage

of the game when you are bad pitt and have been famous for has long as he has, how these things can be interpreted. i don't know if he learned to overshare because angelina jolie has gone on and on about the details. stop talking. it is what it is. >> in print no less. you need to coach him. >> i will give him credit for one thing before we move on. at least he did not say my comments were taken out of context. nothing makes me crazier when people say that. he did stand up to what he said. >> he probably wishes he was a newman. next is charlie sheen who appears to be a newman. >> totally. he sat down with matt lauer and one of the interesting parts of the interview was that he thought after all that melting down and drinking of tiger's blood he may go back to two and a half men. >> i thought for sure they can't

do this without me. the show is about this guy. it's a little confusing. they create a show about a guy who was a partier and that guy starts pearing and gets fired. make up your minds, people. >> one is a role and one is real life. >> yeah, i guess the lines can get blurred. >> we did make the point when all of this was happening that isn't it funny that life is not funny. life is imitating how he plays a partier and has become one and then some in his personal life. now he seems like he is in a totally different place. >> you necessary los angeles and there for the emmys. give us a sense of how this is a new versus an old show. >> yeah. if we boil down sunday night to one take home lesson, i think it will be old versus new. one category that really examines that is the best drama

category where you have shows like friday night lights and finally getting a nomination for best drama and harping about this show and how fantastic it is. even though it's off the air for years. and game of thrones. i think it's going to be one of the award ceremonies that they will say whose time is it. whose turn is it to get one of the awards? we will see that with shows and actors. i will be live sweeting for the emmys itself on sunday night. if you have specifics about actors, do reach out to me there. >> hosting that, let's go to weekend movies. good stuff out there. >> pretty good stuff. it's a big opening weekend. one of the things that's interesting, i don't know how she does it. the lion king and if we are going to pick a number one winner, i'm going with the lion king. it's in 3d. get your glasses ready.

>> how can you not like it. thank you so much. have a great time. we will be following you on twitter. for the latest entertainment news, logon to the scoop or be a fan on facebook. for better or worse, sea side heights, new jersey will never be the same because of the reality show jersey shore. now residents are plainly outraged that they will be playing part of the show's production cost. that's today's gut check. bl just one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defends against occasional constipation, diarrhea,

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time for the news nation gut check with jersey shore. here is the situation. politicians in the national coalition of italian americans are asking chris christie to block a $420,000 tax credit for the production company. the credit for the inaugural season of the show was awarded because the production company spent 2 hospital $1 million and

that leaves taxpayers footing the bill for the $420,000. some are angry. >> i don't think they should be subsidizing that. the tax dollars are not going for a good purpose. >> the jersey shore phenomenon has been unbelievable. aside from the meals, tens of thousands in room nights, thousand that is the production crew needed, the visitors that would need the same things were tremendous. >> that famous house. what does your gut tell you. they would foot the bill created by a tax break. we will go to newsnation.msnbc.com to vote on that and an update on wednesday about a florida man ticketed for flashing his headlights to warn other drivers about a police speed trap that was up ahead. he was suing on behalf of the other drivers ticketed for that offense, arguing there is no

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