and he wasn't the only one. >> he just seemed a little distracted, not focused. >> reporter: randy phillipsys before his death, jackson and murray reassured phillips. >> dr. murray spoke for michael on the situation. and guaranteed us that michael would connect. >> hold for applause, slow umbrella, fade out. >> michael explained that he had been working with travis payne, the lead choreographer at home. he knew these routines. >> reporter: the stakes were high, phillips said if the tour was cancelled, jackson would have to pay more than $20 million in production costs. finally on day 18, five witnesses came to the stand, and presented another side of murray. >> he's the best doctor i've ever been to. >> very knowledgeable. >> and i'm alive today because of that man. >> reporter: it was enough to move the beleaguered murray to tears and chernoff hoped to convince jurors he was a good doctor. finally, chernoff turned to his own experts. >> i specialize in addiction medicine. >> reporter: dr. robert wal dw man reviewed records from jackson's dermatologist, in the months before his death, he go

and he wasn't the only one. >> he just seemed a little distracted, not focused. >> reporter: randy phillipsdeath, jackson and murray reassured phillips. >> dr. murray spoke for michael on the situation. and guaranteed us that michael would connect. >> hold for applause, slow umbrella, fade out. >> michael explained that he had been working with travis payne, the lead choreographer at home. he knew these routines. >> reporter: the stakes were high, phillips said if the tour was cancelled, jackson would have to pay more than $20 million in production costs. finally on day 18, five witnesses came to the stand, and presented another side of murray. >> he's the best doctor i've ever been to. >> very knowledgeable. >> and i'm alive today because of that man. >> reporter: it was enough to move the beleaguered murray to tears and chernoff hoped to convince jurors he was a good doctor. finally, chernoff turned to his own experts. >> i specialize in addiction medicine. >> reporter: dr. robert wal dw man reviewed records from jackson's dermatologist, in the months before his death, he got frequent tre

no surprise that ortega's e-mail resulted in an emergency meeting at michael's house between randy phillipsortega, michael and dr. murray. in court, phillips was asked about that meeting. >> kenny opened the meeting up by talking about his concern that michael needed to really focus and to really pay attention to this production that it was massive and they couldn't do it without him. >> what was michael jackson's response? >> michael didn't respond immediately. dr. murray spoke for michael on the situation and michael's focus and michael showing up and guaranteed us that michael would get into it and connect. >> jackson's problems at the rehearsals stemmed in part from a severe sleep disorder he was dealing with for years. according to dr. murray and others who testified at the trial, jackson treated the problem by having doctors give him propofol. murray himself admits giving jackson propofol soon after he became michael's full time physician. >> he spoke because of this current concert, he needed sleep so he could compose and be ready for performances and this was only because of the thi

was no surprise that ortega's e-mail resulted in an emergency meeting at michael's school with randy phillipshe head of aeg live and michael and dr. murray. in court phillips was asked about that meeting. >> kenny opened up the meeting by talking about his concern that michael needed to really focus and to really pay attention to this production, that it was massive, and that they couldn't do it without him. >> all right. and what was michael jackson's respons response? >> michael didn't respond immediately. okay. dr. murray spoke for michael on the situation, and michael's focus and michael's showing up, and guaranteed us that michael would get into it, and would connect. >> jackson's problems at the rehearsals stemmed in part from a severe sleep disorder he had been dealing with for years. according to dr. murray and others who testified at the trial, jackson treated the problem by having doctors give him propofol. murray, himself, and mitts to give -- admits to giving michael propofol shortly after becoming his physician. >> because of the concept that he needed sleep to be ready for the p