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them. >>hen saddam hussei was captured, heas armed with a glock handgun. guess whatormerpresident now wantthe gun as a souvenir in his presidti library. all that and more this hour on msnb good afteron, everyone. i'm taon hall live in new york. hey ther david. >>hey, tamron. i'm david shuster live in washington. the big picture, michael jackson's moth has lost control of her son's multimillion dlar estate. cath reason jatherine jackson ta los angeles judge toelay his decisionbut the judg rejte her request today ruling in far of the king of pos wishes. the judge backed jackson's attorney john braa and music executive hn mcclain both named in jackson's 2002 will. there was another hearing set for august 3rd where ktherine jackson could stillbeamed permanent admistrator. meanwhile, jackson ns have been arriving at dodger stadium all dayo claim their coveted ticketto tomorrow's memoal service. more than 1.6 milli people registered for tickets, d only

8,750 mes were ch. nbc's michelle kosiki join us live. i suppose a lot of fans aren't so concerned about t custody batt, but where do things stand asar a jackn's millionsnd which direction is this headed? >> reporter: well, you said the right word millions. that's why this is soou are n and so portant, and we're not evaing about millions here, buthundreds of millions, possibly a half a billion dollarwhen all is said an done. itas kind of a crazy dayn court. re than a den lawyers were present representing vario sides,nd there was en a littit of an uproar this morning when a dbie rowe lk alikealked by causing t glal press to swarm around her and to r. it wasn't her. just a look alike. we know both sides here, the executors named in mge's wiicha jackson's ll and his mother claimed a viory. temporary conol of the estate

are i the hands o michael jasos attorney and a former manager of his. but katherine jackson's people also said, well, you kno what? the judge did ke thunusual step of wanting to ensure that therine jackson ist least madeware of any decisions concerning the estate. so the question would be these two men were named by michael jacksoin his 2002 will, why would she the be trying to ga control of the esta? there are a cple reasons for that. on at the time sh petioned for that theill had actually not yet been file with the court. th cited reasons li worrying that other wills wouldppear th might trump th one,ot knowing that thiwill is valid and, in fact, it has not been offici lly ruled as valid by the court that. could take another month her attorneys al argue that one of the executors namedjohn branca, had actually been fired by jackson in the past for different asons even though he was hired rently. they had questions about that. but in the end they said they did not contest the ll. they're okaywith it,but they stl want katheri jackson to reserve her right to be able to

objecto things as she would be by law away. guys? >> nbc's michel kosinski, michelle, thks for the report. >> the bigger picture, the ongoing investigations in the wake of michael ackson's death. right now jackson tee childrenre in the custody of thsinger's mother. but the l.a. department of children and familservices is w looking into the wfare of thdren. thinvestigation invoes talking to thchildren about their life when their fath was alive. and the other vestigation, ether prescription drugs pled a role inichael jackson's death. he los angeles times" ports that five doors who prescribed medicine to jkson are unde inveation. joinin us is head anesthesiologist dr. howard neer >> thanyou. >> how do they put together an investigation? when a ctor gets a certain medicine for aatient, is there way of tracking tha how ou piece that together? >> there are computer systems now that can track at least f the controlled subsnc how

oftethose prescriptions are requested by a physician and how many pills go t each patient. and i thin that in california the bureau of narcotics are able to -- naoticenforcement are able to get that -- access that computer database. they can actually go back andt least prescriptions that were filed under micel jackson's name, find out who, where, and how much. >> but in the caseof this celebrity, there are reports that there may have been aliases used. if that were the case, would they be ableo reconstruct what doctor gave potentially michael jackn a medicine that cld ha killed him? >>hey would have to go back and try to find if there was emy pill bottles in his house and they could see someof the aliases that werused, some way to find out what os alies names were so they could track it. otherwise they couldrack it by the doctor who may havbeen associated with michaeljackson. >> one of the drugs there looking at is propofol.

>> propofol. >> used by anestheologists ke yelf. we know it's supposed to be a powerful sedative only used in an e.r. wod that be tracked if smeone took that ou of a hoital, is there arking for these medicines? >> wel that's a very tightly corolled medicine in the hospital, and e wouldave to sign that out. that just doesn't get out unless it's taken ilgally, and, of cour, if it's taken illegally, they'rnot going to be abl to nd out who did it very readily. >> how would youet it illegally if it needed to signed out? >> legay? >> illegally. >> the way hospals andurgery centers are seup now, it uld ha to be spensed, given to ananesthesiologist requested for a specif case, and anyof that material don't get used woulhave to be returned back or at least signed offby that health care practitioner thate or she has used at and wasted it. so it's a very tightly controed substance, and as

such it's hard to get ahold of. >> doctor, i don't want to put you on the st but i have to ask you this. one of the websites vering this story haspoken with the attorney of the doctor that last sa michael jackson he said i did not give demerol or oxycontin. he wouldn't say the same about propofol. ethically would a doctor required togive that kind of informatn, especially an investigation like that. the ethics of it as a doctor? well, that's tough question. i think tha youw, it's a matter o telling the truth, and i think that ethicly the doctor has got to tell the truth. >> it's interesting. doct, thank you very much for your insisit. we always leaea a lo wn n we talk with h u u an yoyo s sta there. ank you. m my plpleare. >> stayy tuneded morrow for all-yy coverage for m micel jajasoson'memorial sercece we will bebe anchchining our vevege alongitith chris jansining. she will be liive in los angnge in front o of t s staesenente alall srtrtg at 11:00 eastete right here on msmsnbc.

tamroron, now t t another mr story thiss hour. sarah h pan'n'sombshell anannounmeme that she'steteppg down a a governor o of alaska. she stutueded fansanand ctics alike on friday y afteoooowith her decision, anshshs totoucd d off a firestorm off speculatioi about whatshe really p pns to do next. in the meantime, shehe's now king aim at h her citics poststing isisn twitterer today. critics are spinnining, shaha in thereess theyy feed false info n the righgh desion made ass i enter lastst year inffce to not n again. bubut speaking ofpinning, ppa palin's lastst yea i ishe stayeded, ululd t start for another sixonons. joining u us david corn, washingtgton beaea chiefor mother jones. david, first of a, anan for beiningitith . >> gooddtoto b with youou. >> vid, yououould fact cckck this thihingoror hours andnd ho ananjust have somuch material say,aiai a seseonond, sarah papan got somethihingwrong. on friday she s said all 15of e ethicscs cplplnts haveeeen diisisd. younnveigated thisisnd lolooked at sarah h pannururing the

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charitable in terms ofof the people w witn t the coerertive areaea, ndndit and strategists whbelieve she might h havenyny oxen left in political career. noououbthere are tens ofof ousands of sarah palalin followers ouou t the who buy whatever shehahas to sese, but thk amongst ththe professional political class onnhe reblican side o of t aislsle they seeerer morere or less as a and it will really be a case o risisingrorom e dead, real polilitill resurrection ththat' gogoin to be necessary to tter ba on the nanation s sge as a crcredlele cdidate. >> even with ee lt of t thigs yojuju named and so of them i think manyeople wouldld agree spsp on observatationsffoon to f frmrmerovernor sarah palin. liliti asked a n numr of peoplele whaisist about sah? i i fod some of ththose answerso intriguing. evenititall of theseknocksnn thhead that shehe's g gtitingrom

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questions about his trust of russian counterpart. here is how president obama responded. >> throughout our interactns i found him to b stghtforward, profesonal. he is clear about the interests of the russi people, but he's also interested in finding out what the interests of the united states re, and we hav found, i in an ability to work togeth extremely effectively. so, yes, i trus president medvedev to not only listen and to negotiate nstructively, but also to followhrough on the agreements that are contaed here today. >> the personalelationship betweemr. obamand mr. dvedev was just part of the intrigue today in moscow. the leaders announced a framework for arms control agreements now tohe bigger picture, that framework foar control.

it came with the current u.s./russian treaty s to expire indecember. but now they hav signed a preliminary deal to reduce their countries' stopile of nuclear weapons by as mucas a third. e russians have also agree to allow e u.s. to fly tops and weapons througrussia to afghanistan. joininus from washgton is ambassador steven piper acting director othe center of the united states and europe at the bookings instute. his foreign service career includes 25 years at state dertment and servg as ambassador in e ukrae. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. i'm happy to be with you. >> it's a pleasure. what do you ma of this compromise we saw today? manypele expected it, but obviously a powerful message hearing the presidt today. >> well, this understanding o ducing stregic nucle forces is a good step. if you g back to 1991, the s.t.a.t. treaty allowed each side 6,000 weapons. the 2002 treaty signed by presidents bush and putin

lowed each side 2,200 now we're talking about a reduction 25% to 35%. that's good news. the presint said basically you have to be a lead tore the world, eeclly a world that uld have north korea and iran both working on their nuclear progms. how does this message resone beyond what we see in thi picture here? >>well, on a broade question of nonproliferation, i think what president obama is saying is that unless the uted stes andrussia, whichetween them have between 90% and95% of the nuclear weapons the world, if the uned states and russia are not reducg thei arsenals, how they credibly ask other countrieto push back against efforts byountries such as iran and north korea to proliferate nuclear apons? e see the two gentlemen walking in. the president medvedev and president obambut you know the bastory, many have speculed who is reall in crge? is h putin? is hethe puppet master he? we say the president met with his counterpart? is that a fair assessment o what happened? >> this is one of those issue

that is the united states can't solve. presidt medvedev is the otocol person -- is t appropriatpeon at the protoc level for president obama to meet with, and that should be his maininterlocutor. at the se timehe fact he's meeting tomorrow withrime minister putin is a logical step givenhat in this tandem relationship with medvedev and putin, they sharepower. so talking to thoth makes senseven though medvedev is the appropriate interlocutor for the president. >> howill this meeting phaps withutin tomorrow play ou in the media becse of his per anthe perception of powernd he's very well-liked despite what others may s around t world. he is liked his cotry. >> that's certainly true. he's very popular in russia, but i would not see too much into this. it's not clear- there's really no evidence to suggest that on questions regarding relatio with the unitestates that there'any difference between medvedev and putin. so i don'see president obama as tryg to drive a wedge between the two.

he's having logical discusons with both. >> interesti. well, thank youery much, ambassador, for yo insight. it was great talking to you today. thank you. >> happy to be here. so, 2k5i6dade, you kn, it isan interestin dynamic of howthe world might sea leader and how th leader is seen by hisown people. it will be cious to seeow the mea plays it out. someeports say president obama received a clly reception. rtainly not what he has receivedn europe and oer parts of theld when he travels. yeah, and these meetis are interesting on so many levels en youthink about the bipolar wod that largy exists. u.s.ussian relations are still huge and somemes still fficulto pull apart and put ome perspective. seeing the leers in theame meeting roomis always fascinating. another sty out there, former mayor of whington mari barry dying charges he

stalli stalked a woman. he was on probation for faili to pay taxes. today his attney said the charges have merit >>e believe that the charge is baseless. we belve th t charge stems fr a persal relationship that has gone horriblyrong in a lot of ways and has sulted in oneparty to that lationship strin out a mr. barry. >> in 1990 ding his third term as d.c. mayor, he was videotaped smoking crack in a hotel room. i'll never forget the he flipped f a reporter and said we're number one. what a career -- >> you jt don't forget those moments in your life, dav >> up next -- sorry for jumping the gun on that video a highlight reel of sarah palin's greatest hits fromheall mpaign to friday's resignaon speech. you don'want to miss this video tribute. it's a goo one.

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wewelcome ba to msnbc, the ple for politics. en sarah palin annoued on friday that she was quitting the governor's officice before finishing her first term, it was remarkable.. even reblicans describebed he nenews c cferenc as riveting ough not in a goodod way.

it was just the latest mont inlving palin that the polititical wod will not soo forget. ther haveeen many, soso here our tributute. ♪ sara sarah,torms are brewing in y your eyeyes ♪ >> governors doknow besst. ii know that i know that i ow. you kn, they sayay the differen between a hoey mom d ait bull, lipstick. >> they caa h -- whwhat's at name t they call her? what do tey call her again?n? >> thatat would be caribou barb. >'ll ben charge of the turkeys,s, eah. extly what we're goingng to do in a p pin and mccain adnistration. i kw i'd like him wearingng his carhars, his steel ed boo. >> i told thee congress thankss but no thanks. thanks but no than. thanks but no than. thanksut no thanknk thanks but n nohanks on that

idge to nowhere. ththk you. can i call youou joe ♪saraarah >> howre you feeling abobout the ecomy? and i'i'll bet y you' going to hear some fear. certainlyy wewe'llrobably get it for doing ththis, too. may i introduce toou my husband todddd palin. he is alaska's -- i i must saya your b btherteven is my favoriri baldwin brother.r. >> you are a delelight. ♪ no tii is a aood time >> it wowod be apatheticic to d of hunker down and go with the flow.. we're fisheen. we knoonly dead fish go withth the flow. ♪ iid it all for her > bravo to producer editor chris penny for putti that tother.

taon, it's now tiime for today's ce-off. > so gue what we'e' talking ababout? can you guess? sarah palin. its certainly herr future, th rerepublicanparty,here she will stanand, and unlike thatt song,o is going t forg sarahalin? nonot liky, but does her f futue include ththe white hohoe? our fa-off toda democratatic strategist andnd former communications direcector for t edwards prpresidenal campaign and pbablyhe reieiing championon, chri kofinis and leslie adviser to george w. . bush. you u have to geget your glos o because chriss fights dirty. >> okay. >> w wre we go -- >> that's hi chchoice. >> rurush limbaugh, he had something to say abobout g gernr palin just a ahort time ago. hereres what he said. >> okay. >> i d't think this precludes her running for oice down t road, theresidency in 2012 at all. i think theseeeople saying thatt she's s an instant targrg becau she quit is just -- that's just inside theeltway formaic,

and she's not that. all inow is that she's going to continue to fe up people in th conservative republblan base as oft as she speaks t to them. >> so, leslsle,ush also said he was perprpxed b her dision. whats your take on wh happeneded here? >> i nd agreeith rush. you know, sandwichch beeen chris anand rushs really just a great day. i wiwill tell u this,n the long term we donon know if s will movove from a lilitning d to a alightning force in the republican party.. she hasas trememendousumber of sitive you can't didiscounthe number of peop thateally are enerzed by whahat she bngs tothis pty and wh she reprents in terms of taking her own party for corruptiononthe tax and spend policy, energy indepennce, those types of things. but wititrespec to that, in thee short term i think there'e's a trtremendousmount of negatatity surrrroundinher decion, the way sh rolled out this announcement, and a lot of conserertives d republicans

who e sappointed. there'no other way to s say it >> do you thk she has a future in the long term. i don'n't knowhere you draw th line her but one thg w we know this point at least joe scarbororoh thisorning thinks her futur might inclulu levision on fox news. is tha the way t to go for her? that's what hthinks. >> i i mean,t may be amart career movove becae i'm not sure she hamuch of a futu politics. if she wts to run fofo president, this was aut as b bad way to dot asouould imagine.e. i mean, i was thinking aboutt this t this weekend. her speech reminde me of bluto's speech from "animal house."" it was about that ininherent it didn't t makeany sense. a a t of republicans,s, both publblly and privively, jt wish she d doesn'tun for president. i'm nosure they'll get that wish.. i actually think whehe you realy kind o step backnd think about at she'srying to do here, , think she's acally going too out therere and try to build a movemenen d run for esident as kind of this intessential outsider candidate. i could not imagine anytng

worse e for thehe republican pay or anythininbetter for the democric party. >> leslie --- >> i canan think o lot me things, hris. >> leslie there doeseem to be a lot of hypypocrisy with whatar sarah palin doeses. she t talks aut howe can learn somethg from the troroops, they don't ve up. th was at a newew conferencnce where she e wasiving up. she criticized the meddia, said they had been overerthe top an been toooo much, that was onene the reasons s she nded to stop.. here i is wh she saidabout hillary clinton n en hilry clintonn cricized the med. mia. >> when n i he a stament like that coming from a woman candidate with a kind of perceivedwhine about that excess ctitism r,r, y know, mamae e a sharper crcrospe put on r,r, i tnk, ma that dodon't do us any good. >> leleslie w wn is s ever going to be ablele toget awayay from the hypocrisy she's's areay thwn all over theplace? i think, you k know, while y yu focus on the hypocrisy, i i wi tell you thererss a lot ofpepele

that wilill cucus on the posiveve i'll llll you thths,s, she's a talent who needs to o rereined. i'i'm notoing to -- > rs a d de fish.. >> o,o, not necessarily. yoyou owow, for all the people at want to put a nailin her coffffinththers just asas many people who b belveve that she c cocontueo build her crcrenen crenent edentials, her intellelectl l heft, and be a aiaiablcandidate. and as somemebo who followed her -- >> youannot be viablele candidate when youou we e a governor f f 2 1/2 yeaears and midstream yoyou deeci to quu and then tryy tosomehow paint t att as a irirtu that is n n a virtue. at is a weakness. >> chris, you know, wve seen reresuecectis of so o nyny candidates t thathould never have been resurrrrecte especially o onhe lele,, so i think we have to star with the fair game i in politics. uu just don'n't knowow >> namene that's been r resurrecectedd o the le that ws ccessful. >>ilill inton. >> h hhahad en governoror forte arars. are you kiddining ? >> you added the caveveat.

inswered t t question before u said -- >> tt t s a hrible ananswer >> lt's put t this in perspective.e. you can't ddiscotthe aount of support she has amg g e base. there ararmamany -- >> this isthe r rubublin rty's problem. >> leii tell us ththis. how will thihis play out. u seem confident off h positives and all this giveve ua crystal b bllso we can ll you o out on this i i couplee years from no where do youhihi sarah p pal will end ? give us the 24 nths, where i i shgogog to b 24 months? >> i i thian intereresngng thin here is, you know,, iake her at her word with rereecect to why she's steppipingwaway from the post, but i i ha b bn talkingtoo publishers and somome editors w arareayayin look athat big advance that she couldn't take til she steppeday. her bokok a advce is anywhehere ththe a aa of - >>er pockets will b be fatter. 'v've t that. >> he pocketstsiille fatteter. the bottom line isis s h has too the hard work. shshtalked about beieing a poin guard anddvdvcing rsrsel

abt you she leftt at halftime. shhas to go back and secure her base,e, show she's willing do the wk,k,nd see i she has the inteteecectu heft t to compe on a playing fieldld of stroong repupuicicanandidates. >> he e the dramatic failure ofararahalin. she sisits trere and talks s ab virtue. e sits there and tks about serving constitueuent serving e countntry. she's only clrlrly goioi to see e hersrsel thth i is st likely about monon. shshe nts to go out there andnd make money, but d't'tmamakehat out to b be a v vire thahasosom it's a higher c caing. itit isn't. she wawalk aw from h herhief responsibility, whichch is to govern aead h h state. chris,s, nobody dnies that that's a disappoiointgg factor. on the right esespealally. >> you can't't-- so think a aou ththis. you're goining to runor president, you cannot -- >> you c can' m mke the e excti that n no democratsave been thisoror money?? >> what i'mm saying is ifarah palin n wanttoto rurun for esesidt -- >> chrhris an leslie, we'll le

you meet agaiainikik ali and frier, you can fight againin ototheday. ththanyou for your mm we reallllyppppreate it.. i think that's the incrededib thing abouousasarapalin, davd,d, is you c canetet a heated ararment, and that't's no becae they're ndndit but from annene, a dinner table. walk into a r resurant and yo can get aa h hated argument brbrinng up governonor sahah papali >> i have e fefeelg most of tht republicans whoo sa she is don, th a a right. i i anan,here are always g goi totoe e so republicans whoayay be just asaselusional as sara palin was onon friday,y, but may words, she w willnono get anywhe in 201 mark my w wos.s. >> y kno what?t? it is now ouou there.e. we'll see if david is r right >> up next, some e thin w w thought yoyou ououldnow. >> saddam's gun. titiger' ininteiew. d nbc political director c chu totoddas comompetition in the go-to departmtmenatat t white hoe. >> i hopope t tt's n my go-to you're talking about. ththent 5:00 m. eastern lawrence'd'donll is filling in

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let's get to our nt read on polititics with e stories wewe' bealking about into tomorrow. >> and i guarantee y we will nobe talkingbout an obamama interview anytimime soon. mark murray is d deputy litical director for n nbc nes. ma, what do you have foror us? >> hey, david and tamron. gibbs certainly hass a longway to go befofore h gets to chuck' level on thehe goate a long way to go. on his second daybroad in russ, president obama will l be meetining withrime minister vladimir pututin as well as forr sovieteader mimiail gorbachev. also democratstset thr th vote in the united states senat when al frankenen gets sworn . weaven' talked much about rk sanford but the south carolina govererr isgoing tond up getting a d decisionrom the south carolina r republin part the sououth carina gop will beb meetingg later toght to decide sanfnfd's fate, either admomonishinhim, asking him to resi, or doing nothi.

we'lfind out ler tonight. >> what are the are e viewss fr the presesident's visi to mosw. much hasas been made that he di not rececee a reption f fom the people. >> it is a d dferent environment. obviously, he isn'n'a rock star we saw h himn europe earlier this year or in oher countntrie. but itit's still veryryearly. he'soing to be abrbroad ovevethe next severalal da and totoy was just one step. tomoow is going to be the momore interereing dain my opinion. today he waseeting with president medvdvedev,ried to get ththat rig. i have h had a hard time pronououncing s last ti. >> how do yay it? >> medvedev, i believe. that'she texan in me. it's a little harder. vladadirputin, eveone will be tching that. obviously, h his t person whwho is mang things run in russia right nowow. >> mark mururray, nbc news dput litica director. mark, ththanks a always. appreate it. ke sure to chk out fit readad firsthing every morni. it's updated throughout the da. lointo firstread.msnbcbc.com tamron, welcome baba. we missed you. >> imi