witnesses. joining me now is defense attorney and legal analyst ann bremner. there report that is the legal team was split. they thought he would be crucified in f he went on the stand and another thought the jury would convict without murray's testimony. what do you think? >> i think he had a huge risk in testifying. should he testify or shouldn't he testify? will he testify or won't he? the thing is, he could be crucified and he kind of testified in the statement that he gave to the police about his version of events where he said he was not guilty of homicide. >> a lot of folks contended had he not been so forth coming with police after the initial parts of the investigation, the prosecution's case may not be strong as it is. >> that's a problem. a closed mouth gathersno foot. you have to be quiet. i tell my clients to be quiet. if you are well-intentioned, you will have problems if you talk

to police and testify in a courtroom. at the end of the day, there has been such a mountain of evidence against him in the prosecution's case, they put in a good defense in terms of michael jackson could have done it himself and he is loved by his patients and leave it at that. if they put him on the stand, they may ruin the entire case. >> does doctor murray's decision not to testify say anything to the jury? >> it shouldn't. the doctors can be unified, but it's conrad murray's choice alone and they are instructed to take no negative inference from his fail tower testify. jurors stick by that. i have seen that in 28 years of practice. when you tell a jury you can't make a negative inference, they follow that. >> is there anything he could have said that would have convinced a jury that he is innocent? or not guilty? >> the only thing he can say is

he loved michael jack and would do anything for him and he was following his instructions and he doesn't know how it happened, but he would not give that amount of propofol. he said that before. the only thing he could do is connect with the jurors. you sit for a long time as a defendant and you become like family. jurors don't convict their family. >> i know you have been following the trial closely. based on what you have seen and heard, granted we haven't hear the closing arguments yet. who has the strongest most compelling case at this point? >> the state as long as they keep it simple. youç don't give propofol anywhe other than a surgical arena. if you do, you are guilty of negligence and negligent homicide. >> ann, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> back to the breaking news from wall street where stocks continue to plunge. the dow is down 220 points. down more than 300.

s&p 500 and nasdaq also sharply lowered today. joining me now is sue herrera, the coanchor of power lunch. it started when greece threw a monkey wrench into the deal. >> that's right and it's a fluid situation. things are changing hour by hour. what happened is the greek prime minister basically decided to take this big bailout package that includes a lot of austerity measures for the citizens of greece. he put it to a referendum vote that stunned european leaders. they were under the impression that they basically had a deal put in place. that's why the market rallied so much last week. this was a pretty stunning development that he was not going to basically decide this within his cabinet and he was going to put a vote to the people. the market is worried that that vote or package will be voted down. as a result of that that, once again put europe into a very

large crisis and some say it would trigger a default in greece. that's why we have such a difficult situation on wall street today. there conflicting wire reports coming out that that vote will not take place. that's when we saw the dow jones come off of the negative 300 point mark and moved to negative 185 which relatively speak suggest still a big loss. better than expected. >>ç there is confusion over whether that will happen in greece? >> yes and we are a wading clarification on that. the market itself i think is pretty much convinced that there is now dissent within the greek government. the bigger question is not whether or not the vote will take place, whether the referendum will take place, but whether or not the greek government survives or whether or not that doesn't get dissolved and a new government gets put in place. if that happens, they have to start all over again. start from scratch in terms of

negotiating a new austerity package and debt reduction measures. it's very much in play at this point. >> cnbc, sue, thank you so much. >> pleasure. thank you. >> to politics, day two of damage control by leading presidential candidate herman cain today. he explained why he seemingly changed his story as the day went on monday about a settlement with a woman who accused him of sexual harassment as president of the national restaurant association in the 90s. >> i recalled that there was an agreement with the lady who made the charges and they were found to be false. i have never committed sexual harassment in my entire career. i absolutely believe this is an intend smear campaign using these two cases and like i said, i'm not aware of the second one. it is a smear campaign. when they cannot -- >> by whom? >> we don't know.

we have no idea. >> joining me now, news deputy director mark murray. there those who are speculating that a contender may have leaked this story orç in association with the wannabes may have leaked the story. will we know where the story came from? >> we don't know where it's come from. so far i haven't heard any of that type that came from a rival campaign. there had been some chatter here in washington that there was a story about herman cain. politico broke the news on sunday night. instead of whether or not who came up with the story, the biggest story for herman cain is does another shoe drop. he pretty much came up with the case yesterday and it evolved over last night he never sexually harassed anyone and somebody falsely thought it was

sexual harassment and he said he reached an agreement, but it wasn't a settlement even though earlier in the day he said there was no settlement reached. >> none of this appears to be hurting mr. cane n terms of fund-raising. his campaign manager said all this controversy yesterday, the campaign managed to raise about $250,000. >> our nbc campaign in fact said they raised $300,000 yesterday. what we have seen, the conservatives and cain supporters have come to his defense and rallied around him. the biggest question is, is there another development. if a shoe drops, you may see it ralliying around herman cain. of course this remains to be seen what happens. this is a feud situation and they thought the campaign handled the situation a little

inconsistently and turned into a rough day for herman cain. >> thank you so much.ç appreciate that. i want to bring in our nationally syndicated host michael smerconish and msnbc contributor as well. i want to start by playing cain's evolving responses yesterday from morning until night. take a listen. >> you remember everything about an incident from 12 years ago? i know there was an agreement, whether it was a settlement or agreement or whether it was termination papers, i don't remember what it was called. so that choice of words i'm not going to say that it's changing my tune. >> i want to start with you, jp. herman cain, has he done a good job of explain something. >> the difficult thing is he doesn't take himself seriously. that's the problem we saw as the story evolved from sunday night into yesterday. he kept on slightly tweaking his

story and maybe it was that they were crafting messages or making phone calls to make sure everything was factually accurate, but you don't want to get knocked off your horse this way. he was sort of. this was for him to showcase economic expertise and he had the right experts. instead he wound up talking about this thing. you need to be better prepared for this. this means the end of his campaign? no. anyone who said it's over, they are overestimating the problem for this story. in the coming days, if more comes out, then it will be a problem, but this is something as your colleague mentioned was a good fund-raising day for him and he had four million on hand. he's in good shape. >> do you think another shoe is going to drop? >> i think herman cain's handling of this hasç dramatically increased the odds. another shoe is going to drop.

craig, grown he harassed anybody, but i believe that his handling of it yesterday at best was evasive. how can you go before the national press club at lunch and say there wasn't a settlement. three or four hours later sit down and start speaking in detail about the settlement and play the clintonian game of it depends what is means. this woman or these women are out there. they are watching television. they are evaluating how he handles it and it's conceivable that they say that's not right. i am going to come forward and defend myself and give up whatever that payment may have been to keep me quiet. >> we have all covered enough scandals to say it's not a scandal itself that leads to a campaign's downfall. it's generally the handling of that scandal. do you think that had the cain campaign handles this thing

differently, do you think that the out come would have been dramatically different? >> we still haven't seen the out come. the out come doesn't seem like it's too bad. also this thing is not over. on the other hand, what it indicates is that is considered a front-runner by his opponents. if you think about the timing of how this story came out again, it eclipsed the roll out of his economic plan. that is something that you would do in the matter of a campaign. this is not politico working on its own. they took a tip and i am not accusing them of bias, but this means they are taking him seriously enough as they did. >> iç don't want to get you to speculate, but what do you think the tip came from? >> i don't know. i have been listening to callers who want to say it's ideologically driven or say it's racially driven. it's a legitimate story.

you have a frond runner running for president accused of harassment and money changed hands. they would be derelict in their duty if they didn't run it. where it originated, i don't know, but i would defend the right to print it, that's for sure. >> always a pleasure, gentlemen, thank you. >> coming up, the justice department is suing south carolina over its tough new immigration law. details on that. >> also, bank of america backing down. the bank making a dramatic reversal over outrage of a fee to use debit cards. . >> i want you to go for the mace and concealed weapons permit. >> later i will talk to a sheriff who said that the justice system is not working so all women should be carrying guns to protect themselves. it's today's gut check. you can also join that conversation online and on twitter and you can find the show @"news nation."

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a major spike in immigrants around the country becoming u.s. citizens. the miami herald shows 750,000 people were naturalized, up from 680,000 last year. officials say the new citizens are primarily hispanics who want to vote on the issue of illegal immigration. the justice department filed suit against south carolina over tough new immigration laws that require police to check the status of everyone they detain, a lawsuit argues that that

requirement is unconstitutional. the governor is vowing to block the law that is set to take effect on january 1çst. pete williams is live. alabama, arizona, this is the third lawsuit that they filed against new measures and they enacted to crack down. how can we expect this legal battle to play out? >> like the other, i suspect. the government will go to a federal judge and said please block enforcement of part of the law. the judge will decide. it will go to an appeals court and the government makes the same claim and said the states are free to take steps to try to deal with illegal immigration and they can't pass laws that are at odds with federal policy and that under the constitution preempts the field. arizona's case got through to the supreme court and we are waiting to see if the supreme court will take the challenge over arizona's law that has been stopped.

the enforcement of most of the contversion provisions have been stopped because of the court and we are waiting to see if the court takes the arizona case. if it does take it this term, that will go a long way towards sorting out the claims between the states and the federal government over how much the states have and how much they have to defer. one of the arguments here is they say that south carolina as did alabama in passing the laws said the goal is to try to push illegal immigrants out of their states into somebody else's and let someone else deal with it. what the justice department said is he can't have a policy that consists of every state trying to shove the policy into someone's back yard. they are taking the case and go a long way to sorting this out and waiting to see what it will do. >> pete williams from washington this afternoon, thank you. >> you bet. >> as earlyç as today, hundred of prisoners could go free because of a change in the way

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to take control of my finances and my life. i tap into the power of revolutionary mobile apps. to trade wherever. whenever. life isn't fully experienced sitting idly by. neither is investing. [ birds chirping ] a major about-face by bank of america. after intense criticism by customers, theyç announced tod they are scrapping plans to impose a $5 monthly fee on customers who use a debit card to buy things. it was due to start in january and the move comes after major banks all said they would not be imposing new debit card fees. more and more lately, airlines are fining new ways to add fees

themselves. one airline is changing for printing boarding passes. they charge $5 if an airline attendant has to print the pass for you. you can avoid the charge if you print it at home or do it at an airport kiosk. starting next year, it will be $1 to print at the kiosk as well. an aviation analyst and president of the boyd group, we should note that spirit said it's offsetting the charge by bringing down the fares by $5. what is really going on here? >> spirit is kind of a unique airline. other airlines are not going to follow. they go after very price-sensitive passengers and the first thing they look at is what's the fare? they look later on, they have to pay $5 to use the fare. it's good for them, but one of the things they have to laugh about. >> we also you mention the industry and we learned a short

time ago, the airlne industry collected $1.5 billion in baggage fees alone in the second quarter of this year. that's up 8.5% from last year. can we expect this to keep rising? can we expect airlines that make money off of baggage fees to keep racking it up? >> absolutely. no question about it. i'm happy to note that not $1 of that came from me. i carry myç bags. as a result of that, they can add all the fees they want. >> if you are going for a week, you can't carry on all that stuff? >> if i'm going for a week, i shouldn't be going. as far as spirit goes, they are good people with a different kind of approach and different traffic segment. i understand that, but don't expect the industry to jump on that stuff. >> it's more of an ala cart system and they are trying to

keep the fares going, but the necessary add ones where they make their money now. does this make it harder to compare prices? >> it does. that's why i agree that when a consumer looks at one airline or another, it should say what the total fees and fares are up front. including a federal tax. that's the right direction to go. let's be clear here. airports are now about processing passengers and baggage. no more tickets. we don't need ticket counters. if you process a bag, maybe you should pay for it. that's the argument the airlines are using. >> always a pleasure, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> just ahead on "news nation," a plane packed with hundreds of persons makes a rough tough down after the landing gear malfunctions. dennis kucinich tells them to take their hands off social

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chance of having their cases reviewed. spies like us, the fbi releasing videos of russian spies living here in the u.s. and also how the agents busted the infamous ring. the super committee having enough trouble getting the required $1.2 trillion, but today they were told to think even bigger. the cochairs of the president's commission testified before the super committee and urged members to be bold and cut more than the required amount. they also express additional concern. >> i worked closely with almost all of you on both sides of the aisle. i have great respect for each of you individually. collectively, i worry you will fail. fail the country. >> joining me to talk about it is capitol hill correspondent,

kelgy o'donnecorrespondent, kelly o'donnell. how much optimism is there that they come up with an agreement by thanksgiving? >> reporter: if you take a snapshot of the moment, there does not seem to be much optimism. they have them testifying. he worked extensively on the issues and former senator alan simpson and experts on this. a budget expert and people who have been neck deep in the problems and workinging to to try to come up with solutions. solutions they put forward in the past have been ignored. their big concern is that this committee with the special charge and deadline to get something done will somehow be ignored or not be ableç to complete the task. in this moment there seems to be a bit of a trough in how people are feeling about this. >> what do we know about the reports that have been holding

separate meetings to hammer out a plan? >> the public meeting is a way to show the public what's going on. the bulk has been in a series of private meetings. sometimes in large groupsing to and democrats and republicans meeting separately and meeting with the leadership and going-over with the staff experts and people who work for the committee who know a lot about these issues and have been turning it out. no one is saying they are not turning hard. they are putting in the time and trying to make compromises and come together. these are big problems and as the experts were saying, this is a foreseeable problem. it will only get bigger. one of the things is the component on the debt itself will be one of the biggest problems. that will compound and be a snow about ball rolling into the future and one of the many things they need to tackle. >> kelly, thank you.

>> reporter: thanks. >> about 2,000 prisoners are eligible for early release thanks to a new change in the way sentences are being handed out for crack cocaine. sentences for crack cocaine will be closer to penalties for powder cocaine. the effect of that change will be spread out over a few years, but estimated 12,000 prisoners could benefit overall. inmates will get an average of three years shaved off the suddens. alex johnson wrote about the story for msnbc and today is the first day the new changes take effect and how many prisoners be set free today? >> a lot of them are waiting for this day. a lot of requests were already in the pipeline and it created a backlog in districts. there is no way to know exactly how many will go free today. you are right. it's projected that close to 2,000 people will be eligible for immediate release beginning today.

>> the disparity in sentences for craig versus powder was considered discriminatoryy and it affected them proportionally. explain how they are different under the so-called fair sentencing act signed by the president last year. >> before you can be subject to a minimum five years if you recall holding five grams of crack. less than a fifth of an ounce. to trigger the same sentence, huh to be holding more than a pound of powder cocaine. 500 grams. the new rules don't eliminate that. they don't make the amounts of cocaine to trigger the minimum sentence identical, but they cut it drastically. instead of a 100 to one ratio, it's in the neighborhood of an 18-1 difference that get you that sentence. >> msnbc.com. thank you. >> thank you, craig. a boeing airline makes an

emergency landing without the landing gear. that tops our look at stories around the nation today. dramatic video show a boeing 767 landing on its belly. warsaw airport after the landing gear failed to open. 231 people on board that plane there that crash triggered sparks and small fires as well. no one was hurt, but the plane circled boost airport for about an hour, dumping fuel before it made the landing. nearly two million homes and businesses are in the dark three days after an early snowstormer to through the region. they ever waiting to buy gas for cars and generators and at least 23 deaths have been blamed on the storm as well. tennessee's governors defending the arrest of dozens of occupy nashville protesters and even though a judge said to stop enforcing a curfew that led to the arrests.

the decision came after protesters went to court yesterday and arguing that the curfew and arrests violated a right to free speech. important news today concerning home foreclosures. a government announced up to four million homeowners who may have been improperly foreclosed on can get their cases reviewed. we cover the housing market and what's this all about. >> paperwork scandal, a federal banking regulator's enforcement that was announced last april. part was in effect today. the part where the banks must offer reviews of foreclosures and you are foreclosed on only in 2009 and 2010. you believe that you are wrongly foreclosed on.

others in foreclosure proceedings, you have a right to have your foreclosure case reviewed. it's for the 14 top banks,a a major servicer.ç you have until april 30 to submit your request for the review. it could take several months and doesn't mean you will be found that you were wrong because the banks say they believe they did everything directly, but if they find errors, you could be entitled to mediation and they won't say that that is what you are entitled to. >> you have the phone number for folk who is think they may qualify. there is the mortgage review phone number. do we think folks might be

getting their phones back as a result? is it too early to tell? >> we spoke to the comptroller doing this action and he expects possibly several hundred thousand people might request these reviews. as you said about 4.25 million could be eligible were foreclosed on in that two-year time period. only in that 2009, 2010. it could be they didn't make the payments and why do they need to go through the review. >> always a pleasure. >> thank you. >> kim kardashian leaving the country hours after announcing her split from her new husband. courtney has the latest on the divorce, including details on the prenup and who gets the ring. first a lot going on today. things we thought you should know about. here they are. the debate schedule out for the presidential election.

the first taking place in early october.ç jimmy kimmel will be chosen to host the dinner and released a statement saying he is looking forward to it, adding i love dinner. president obama has been given a clean bill of health. the president's doctor said in addition being in excellent health, he is also "tobacco-free." in 2009 the president said he was 95% cured of his smoking habit. those are just a few things that we thought you should know. capital one's new cash rewards card gives you a 50% annual bonus! so you earn 50% more cash. according to research, everybody likes more cash. well, almost everybody... ♪ would you like 50% more cash? no! but it's more money. [ male announcer ] the new capital one cash rewards card.

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groebl warming. he joins us live. . the fbi is shedding light on what was called operation ghost stories. the shocking decade-long surveillance that covered russian spies living in the u.s. and became the international star of sorts. it all read like something out of a james bond movie. >> june 26th, 2010. in action at a new york coffee shop. she doesn't know she is talking to the fbi. about to pounce on a spy living among us in the u.s. the agent is outside. the fbi said.

the data is in pictures online. they write in invisible ink. here's something called a brush pass. this is a dead drop, riding stuff in weeds under a bridge. this spy is spotting an empty bottle as a marker and picks up. if it seems low tech, for all that, they never uncovered any secrets or anything much atç a. >> it shows me espionage. >> if young anna was not the world's greatest spy, today she has been very good at posing. posing with a gun and not much else. awkwardly making the guy. she has been awarded a top

russian state honor and her own tv show about odd mysteries. on a talk show who said i will reveal all secrets. they do have a knack for revealing though the fbi is unimpressed. the under cover agent she thinks is a spy boss, she asks a short task? how long it will take because i need to like explain. it's really scary, she said. uncovered and wide open. fame. >> that was nbc's michelle kosinski there. >> was kim kardashian's marriage a sham? a lot of details behind kim's impending divorce from kris humphreys and how it could

impact the family. let's go to courtney here with us and this is shocking. this is stunning. >> yet it's not. >> actually the divorce itself is not as stunning as the time. >> the timing of it all and the fallout truthfully is shocking. let's start with the nuts andç bolts of what we know. there was a prenup, one of the things that people utter about four seconds after the divorce papers were filed. kris humphries stands to get goose eggs out of this. they both came into the marriage with their own money and their own brands and that sort of thing. they walk away with their own thing, but a lot of money has been made since they tied the knot when we are talking about the wedding specials. kim is asking for that money. she is represented by laura waszer and she represented britney spears and angelina jolie. i'm sure kim will be fine and so

will kris. the wedding special, this was obviously taped for e to run. it's a big event that ran october 9th and 10th for the first time. they have been repeating it ad nauseam ever since. it might be yanked off the air because it's completely not real. >> you know what, i would think that folks would perhaps want to see it more. >> maybe if you missed it the first time around. the problem is people are jaded by this. there those people who believe in them. when they saw that engagement ring, they thought it could be true. stay with me here. the ring you are looking at, who gets that? as is usual in divorces, the bride or former bride gets the ring. it was $2 million and a 16 carat ring. it depreciated quite a bit kris

probably wouldn't get his money back, but that goes to kim. the bigger question is this is notç just a marriage, it's a brand. what does it mean for the kardashians? it's more than just kim who made their livelihood off of this brand and what they endorse people go out and buy. they shop for, people shop for. the series in new york, already in the tank with chris humphries. how will this brand survive? my recommendation if they are listening, kim should be honest about this. what happened is the train left the station and it's hard it get it back and here she is all caught up in contracts and it takes a lot to say no, i'm not going to get married when television cameras are looking. if she was honest with her audience, it would go a long way. >> 72 days. 72 days. thank you very much. appreciate that. >> i'm really upset about this. >> i lost in the pool.

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time for the "news nation" gut check. a south carolina sheriff said it's time for women to start carrying hand guns for protection. the news conference monday, the sheriff said it is not working and a concealed weapon is a way to fix it. after the arrest of walter lance, he is accused of trying to rape a woman in a park. the sheriff said he is fed up.

>> i want to you go for the mace and concealed weapons permit. >> you said the suspect did not hear the victim crying and fix this. are you suggesting that women should be shooting to kill for lack of a better word? >> women who arm themselves with a concealed weapons permit and have proper training could probably fixç people, making tm a could have all the time and i believe if you are going to pull out a weapon, it should be as a last resort and i don't think everyone should have a weapon and knowing everyone who has shown that they can be a good citizen and do the right thing, these women have a right to arm themselves. >> sheriff, if law enforcement is charged with protecting the

public, then why should that not be sufficient? why should folks get the guns and arm themselves if we have cops? >> you can't be everywhere. we are a fool if we tell everybody that we can take care of all the problems. >> par also suggest which type of gun that women should get. 45 caliber hand gun. why is that? >> it's t shoots a 45 caliber or shotgun shell. you don't have have to be accurate, you just have to be in the general vicinity. >> if women are shooting, aren't they going guilt before innocence? isn't that a legal can of worms? >> it's easy to fix that. don't attack a woman. there is no clear answers for anything. i know this was controversial and i do believe that people who believe in the second amendment and should arm themselves have a right to do so as long as they

are plained properly. some people are not going to do that. some of them that do that take care of people who are making -- i'm tired of apologizing and criminal justice system cannot keep the people we had in jail for 20 plus times and have shown over some oddç years we have bn dealing with them they are not going to do the right thing. everybody is certain to be in jail forever. number jail. >> down in spartan berg, you went to college. good to see you, sheriff. >> appreciate you. >> thank you. >> what is your gut tell you. should the part an berg county sheriff be urging women to carry a concealed weapon for protection? go to newsnation.msnbc.com to vote. look at what they are saying about yesterday that stemmed from the tv appearances and ruth and son andrew where they deny

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