john thompson spent 14 years on death row, and after his verdict was set aside he was then facing life in prison. he was fighting for a retrial that took place four years later. he was exonerated by a jury in less than 30 minutes that found him not guilty when he got his retrial, and it was largely the result of the police department not turning over what would have been -- evidence in his first trial. the united states supreme court reversed the verdict of the jury in this decision. he has found an organization called resurrection after exoneration to help other people seek justice in their respective cases. to his left -- this is the executive director of california death penalty focus, where she works to abolish the death penalty. she did preside as the warden over several executions. natasha is the death penalty policy director for the american civil liberties union of northern california. she previously worked as a deputy public defender in alameda county, and was a staff attorney with the california task force on criminal instructions. she is also working on the effort to abolish

john thompson. he is the director of the d.c. office on aging. and of course the d.c. office on aging, maryland office on aging and virginia office on aging, all three have come together for this expo which is unique and it's wonderful. it's free so seniors can come out and get lots of information. and if you're a senior, why is this expo so important to you? >> it is so important for our seniors, first of all, because it's an opportunity for them to lead a healthy and productive life in the community and also to bring your family members there as well. because aging is all of our business. we know a senior in our community, whether it's a family member or somebody in our church so it's an opportunity to gain the valuable resources from the three different jurisdictions, an opportunity to meet with social workers and participate in different wellness programs as well as understanding how to cook healthy foods. so it's going to be a great opportunity. >> exercise? >> exercise, absolutely. >> you know what i found so unique? the fact that there's going to be a job fair f

tas it's not just about john thompson but certainly is about a life of a man destroyed by a prosecutor's office but the supreme court failing to provide take the opportunity to provide a disincentive. obligation, brady obligation to provide that evidence. you're right, it can happen with the legislature, but the court could play a critical role also in creating the proper incentives that would recalibrate the system. >> and sometimes it does do that. to give the court credit, we have this wonderful decision a few months ago, the most important privacy decision in the past decade where the court 9-0 rejects the proposition that we have no expectation of privacy in public and said you do presumptively need a warrant if you're going to track someone's movements 24/7 for a month when you put a gps on the bottom of his car without a valid warrant. the justices disagreed about the reasoning but all nine of them said there was a degree of privacy in public. and then they looked forward to the next case, justice sotomayer said if i surrender data to one party, i abandoned privacy in it for all p

. >> i will go to john thompson. we were talking about how often, you have public opinion polls on the death penalty but the last -- the wrong question is asked, do you support the death penalty or something like that. can you elaborate on this? >> this is a tricky question that we have been tricked into believing, so that people say, do you support the death penalty. this is a trick question. you will not put yourself in that position of being placed under arrest based on these reports. we ask you if you support this and eliminates you automatically. if you ask that same question in a different way, meaning the use of what the state killing you, that is the question. you have no control over the death penalty. he is the only one to make this decision. he is the only one -- he does not want to make the decision. this is a tricky question from the beginning. do we support the death penalty? we never placed ourselves in this position. do you give the state the right to kill you. this is the question and see what the re

the coo's yahoo john thompson left the company today. he only got the post in january. thompson's official bio said he held two degrees in computer science, but it turns out his only degree is in accounting. an activist shareholder group called third point, uncovered the discrepancy just a week ago. >>> 49 bodies left on a highway in mexico. some were decapitated and dismembers, believed to be done to hide their identities. this was done between violent drug cartels. a cease fire that doesn't seem to be working forced syrians to flee for safety. since anderson cooper has a rare look at a refugee camp just across the syrian border, how far back into politicians past is fair game? high school? apparently it is when it comes to mitt romney. [ male announcer ] fighting pepperoni heartburn and pepperoni breath? fight both fast with new tums freshers! concentrated relief that goes to work in seconds and freshens breath. new tums freshers. ♪ tum...tum...tum...tum... tums! ♪ [ male announcer ] fast relief, fresh breath, all in a pocket sized pack. [ male announcer ] fast relief

and john thompson financial. stephanie, let me start with you. have this comeback despite these fears of what can happen in europe. why? >> i think there's some short covering going on because people are thinking that maybe europe has a resolution of some sort. but i also think that it's really more china. i think people are expecting that maybe china's going to get more aggressive in terms of easing because their numbers continue to deteriorate pretty rapidly. >> so they're going to do more to bolster their economy, which would be really helpful to us. >> and the markets are down 5.8% in the last month -- just in this month afloerngs may. there's a lot of negative sentiment, a lot of oversold conditions and i think people are just kind of covering their shorts. >> didn't go down every day. mr. norman, you're the economist. >> right. is that good or bad? >> all this talk about greece going to leave. this is the week leadership in europe said okay, it's possible. could this be calamitous in what does that mean for a u.s. viewer who's worried about

it is not about a john thompson, although it is about the life of a man that was destroyed by a prosecutor'soffice. but it is about the supreme court going to take the opportunity to provide a disincentive for prosecutors to do with some prosecutors are doing, which is withholding exculpatory evidence, failing to train new prosecutors in the obligation to provide that evidence did you are right. it can happen with the legislator. but the court can play a critical role also in creating the proper incentive that would recalibrate. >> sometimes it doesn't do that. just to give the court credit, we have this wonderful decision a few months ago, a great decision of the past decade, where the court nine to zero, rejects that we do not have any privacy in public, and you do need a warrant if you're going to track someone when you put a gps device on the bottom of their car without a valid warning. the justices disagreed about the reasoning, but online so that there was a degree of privacy in public. justice sotomayor said we need to re-examine the whole idea that if i surrender data to their a thir

she donated $200,000 to republicans since 2008 including tommy thompson, john boehner, and paul ryan.nd donated $510,000 to walker's campaign. so this is the lady, senator larson, that he's telling about his plans to divide and con ter the unions. a lady that gave him about a half million dollars and he is giving over $200,000 to other leading republicans. >> right, and this is his base, these are the people that he's going to try to appeal to. he's continued to ignore the regular citizens of wisconsin when they were showing up in groups of tens of thousands. but to -- fund his entire campaign. at least she was one of the rich people in the state of wisconsin. two thirds of his money came from other places across the country. he is trying to be a right wing rock star, and that's not what wisconsin wants. wisconsin wants somebody that will bring us together. there is a great picture going around of mayor barret going up to the protestors, shaking their hands, and talking to them. that's what we need, not someone looking for ways to divide us. >> let me quickly go to you, the associated

john rutledge. and he sends his slave on -- i think it was the fourth of july to see the fireworks, to go to thompson's tavern and go up on the roof of thompson's tavern to see the fireworks. well, thompson turns the slave away. it's a female slave. no, you can't go up there. well, rutledge is outraged. and he goes then -- he's a major figure of course in the state legislature. he goes to the state legislature and he urges a bill to banish thompson from the state for this insult. well, thompson takes to the press, and he writes what can only be a typical american claim of equality against -- this kind of arrogance. and i think it expressed the kind of resentment that's coming out. for all places to take place in charleston shows that even there, where the structure of the society was much more hierarchical than it was, say, in boston, to have that kind of resentment expressed, typical american resentment against the snobbing -- the snobbery, this arrogance expressed by rutledge. expressed by rutledge. outrageous by our standards that he should go to the state legislature and banish the man. but that's

dollars of charity money in political donations, the man called bobby thompson got his picture taken with president bush, senator john and rudolph you yanni, among others, adding credibility to his charity's spiel. >> i figured he was a real player. >> reporter: and yet he was an imposter. >> absolutely. >> reporter: looking disheveled in court today in cleveland, he faced charges including identity theft and rep fused to tell the judge his real name or anything about his background. >> i believe, your honor, that the state has a burden of proof as to that. >> reporter: thompson told the u.s. marshals that caught him he preferred to be called mr. x. >> he signs his name mr. x. he's not admitting who he is. >> reporter: and even his former lawyer says she doesn't know he real name. >> i have no idea. >> reporter: helen mac murray admits she fell for the pitch that the u.s. navy veterans sew yags was a legitimate charity. >> he was the greatest patriot. my whole family is navy. i was thrilled to be able to help an association that was going to be helping people like my dad and father and uncles, all of whom were navy v

john. >> jefferson roberts week. -- robert sweet. >> shana thompson. >> philip nicholas. >> jordan carlyle. >> melvyn nicholas white. >> cadet squadron 9. >> nicholas bud barret. kingston. >> andrew parrott >> william. -- and drew. >> william. >> job schwab gregory -- charles schwab gregory -- joshua gregory. >> sean gregory johnson. >> russell isaac long. >> just an anthony. >> kyle larry joe phillips. >> joshua michael rodriguez. >> zachary daniel schuman. >> taylor hargrove. >> daniel day. >> john harper. >> eric wilson. >> michael david. >> combat squadron -- to death squadron -- cadet squadron 10. >> david. >> zachary. >> grant. >> caitlin. >> stormy brewer. >> christopher carl. >> robert daniel. >> benjamin samuel. >> erin rose. >> daniel. >> ashley elizabeth. >> daniel patrick hayes. >> daniel robinson hughes. >> kyle matthew johnson. >> john wall server. >> cabin in true. -- kevin and true. >> tess o'neill. >> eric louise. >> nathan alexander wells. >> calvin john winter. >> lance. >> cadets squadron 11. >> chad. >> lindsay ada barber. >> james lance. >> curt david. >> christina me

thompson was hired by yahoo back in january. defense attorneys in johndwards' campaign corruption case are arguing today money that went to his mistress was not a campaign contribution. the former presidential candidate is accused of using more than a million dollars to hide his mistress. his attorneys are going after the prosecution's argument that the money is an illegal campaign contribution. today they called laura hagert as the first witness, the head of finance compliance for edwards' '08 campaign. she testified that the money in question isn't on disclosure reports because the federal election commission decided it wasn't a campaign contribution. >>> a make or break moment in the perjury trial of hall of fame pitcher roger clemens. the star witness for the prosecution is now on the stand. brian mcnamee was clemens' former personal trainer and says he injected clemens with human growth hormone and steroids. he is accused of lying to congress when denied using drugs. >>> new safety patrols in a northwest d.c. neighborhood after a man was brutally at

john's is down 131 points. >>darya: more out of sunnyvale and former yahoo c l scott thompson tells the company that he has thyroid cancer. this is after thompson was accused of lying on his resonator. he blames a job hunting firm in chicago for that area. this person will serve as yahoo is fourth see ito. >> you cannot have a ceo end -- in this position that has falsified his background. it would raining many questions up as far as his ethics parent >> setback for yahoo. the top executives from chase are expected to resign in the wake of the $2 billion trading loss. see no jamie diamond says that they will have tighter regulations and chase stock plummeted on friday. >>mark: gov. jerry brown will lay out the plans that of the revised state spending plan today. day -- the budget is down an additional 7 billion from january. the governor glances on the economy and the housing market. he says education will likely take a major hit. public schools will have to shorten their school year for up to three weeks and college students will probably have to pay more for their degree. >> it will really affect my family's abil

john defterios is in awe abu dhabi. christine is with me here in new york. christa freeland, at thompsons reuters.ng through your mind as you watch this. >> to me, the most important question is does this trigger a new round of the euro crisis. you've been making parallels between the plight of a greece, the plight of a spain, and the potential debt crisis in the united states. but there is a big difference. these guys do not control their own currencies. if you control your own currency in a situation like this, you can print money to pay off your debt or you can devalue your currency and that's a way to restore economic competitiveness. they don't have that option now. does this mean that you start a gain to have countries starting with greece say actually this europe thing it not working for us. >> it works out for my viewer. what happened if the eurozone starts to come apart, if countries stacountry s stop using the currency. does that weaken the currency overall? >> what it could mean, there isn't the -- the euro was sort of constructed like a roach motel. you could go in, but you couldn't go

directors, he says it has undermined thompson's credibility and also reflects poorly on the ceo's character. a business professor and bureau technology correspondent john fort weigh in on this issue. >> the problem lies in the fact that when you lie, you violate the trust that people tend to initially put in you. and when you do that, then the question becomes, well, if he's lying now, will he lie later. >> yahoo! is in a tough spot as far as its business goes. you see facebook surging, google is doing really great. the last thing you need to be focused on is defending their resumes. they need to be focused on turning the business around. this is just one more thing they don't need to be dealing with right now. >> yahoo! has confirmed thompson does not have a computer science degree. yahoo! describes him as a highly qualified executive leading large consumer technology companies. lobe is asking for a good explanation. if that doesn't happen, he's calling for the board of directors for immediate action. the letter did not state if that means removal. we're live in san jose tonight. george katayama, nbc bay area news. >>> like facebook, break open that p

john edwards. talk about sordid testimony today here in the corruption trial of the former presidential candidate. edwards made several phone calls to certain people asking for cash. and scott thompsonde a big move in response to the firestorm. but is it enough? everyone in america depends on the postal service. i get my cancer medications through the mail. now washington, they're looking at shutting down post offices coast to coast. closing plants is not the answer. they want to cut 100,000 jobs. it's gonna cost us more, and the service is gonna be less. we could lose clientele because of increased mailing times. the ripple effect is going to be devastating. congress created the problem. and if our legislators get on the ball, they can make the right decisions. >> couple stories for you here. john edwards being called sick and evil. and aig expected to pay back taxpayers in a big, big way. and yahoo's ceo basically issuing a mea culpa. time to play "reporter roulette." >> want to begin with the trial of former presidential candidate john edwards, accused of misusing his campaign funds to cover up his mistress and their love child. not only was edwards called names, president obama

an error and a filing with the sec yahoo stated thompson received a science degree from stonehill college but he never did. >>> the defense team in the john edwards trial will cross- examine a key prosecution witness on monday. he is the lawyer of a went under it-year-old wealthy donor who secretly gave $725,000 to edwards' presidential campaign in 2008. the witness testified edwards knew about the money and used it to hide the affair with his pregnant mistress, rielle hunter. >> the prosecution is attempting to influence this jury by proving that john edwards is an unethical fellow had is caring with this woman. >> edwards has bleed not guilty to six counts relating to campaign violations. if convicted he faces up to 30 years in prison. >>> there's a new rape allegation against the former head of the international monetary fund. dominique strauss-kahn is calm up in a prostitution scandal in france. that investigation has now led police to another woman, who says she was working as a prostitute when she was gang april at a strauss-kahn sex party in washington, d.c. in a hotel back in 2010. strauss-kahn was arrested lasts year after a maid

thompson, where is he now? >> he does infomercials. >> and rudy giuliani and then there's john edwards.ompared to ernest hemingway. many say you are this generation's ernest hemingway. how does that make you feel? >> he didn't really work in journalism. he's known for his fiction. i've never written fiction. >> is this your mascot? >> he is the guy. it's actually a photo of him. they changed the base to make the base into the united states. >> very clever. >> yeah. >> i moved to little rock, arkansas, in 1983 where there was this unknown little governor whose wife happened to practice family law. so that adopted daughter of mine 26 years ago, the adoption was done by our president's secretary of state. >> you're carpooling in the morning, making lunches in the morning -- >> yeah. or arranging play dates or arranging babysitters when that's necessary. i'm very insistent about taking them to the dentist. >> in the wee hours of the morning, you're at msnbc so early, i'm all this energy and you're like, oh. >> that's just an act. there's some people in makeup rooms who like their quiet. >>

john mccain in just a few minutes. stick around for that one. >>> the chief executive officer of yahoo! is apologizing for padding his resume with an extra college degree. scott thompsonry for how the issue affected the company and that he takes full responsibility. thompson's company bio listed a bogus computer science degree in addition to his actual degree in accounting. yahoo! calls it an inadvertent error. >>> and maurice sendak, children's book author and illustrator who brought us "where the wild things are" died after complications from a recent stroke. president clinton called him a king of dreams and one critic the picasso of children's literature. sendak created 100 stories with fanciful and sometimes controversial tales. he was 83 years old. those stories will live on forever. >> love those books. >> loved reading those books to my nephew. >> i have read them to three now, two of whom don't read them anymore, but one still has a few years ahead of him. >>> up next we'll talk about the romney's latest miscues with someone who has been there, senator john mccain. >>> and a political deal so big, a national election just got called off. he told me the secret

thompson. now for a look at what is trending today our quick roundup of what has you talking john online.of herself without her trade mark tan. she's staying out of the tanning salon since she is pregnant. she's much prettier. >>> meantime, "saturday night live" fans are lunching online to see will ferrell's return this weekend to host the show. he kicked things off playing george w. bush, with jason sudeikis as joe biden. >> i'm just so sick of the way presidents are always riding me. i'm an adult. >> i've been there. i used to catch grief all the time from president cheney. >> mm-hmm. >> and the big hitten youtube, one family's very unique way to get their toddler to wake up happy in the car. they crank up the nirvana song. seems to be working. the boy's older brother writes he'd always wake up cranky before they started playing music for him. got to try that one at home with my 3-year-old. 8:05 right now. let's go out to al with a check of your weather. >> i want to try that with matt. >> crank upped nirvana. >> there you go. >> we've got the cuties. what's your name? >> -- the way out

thompson padded his resume and is now out of a job. it officially stated he held two degrees in accounting and another issue. it's immediamedia chief will no named the new ceo. >>> former senator johnudge refused a request to dismiss the case, the trial has been filled with testimony about efforts to keep edwards' then pregnant annapolis mistress hidden from the public. >>> a legendary bass player died. his name is duck dunn. he played with some of the greats of rock 'n' roll. he played bass with booker t. and the mgs. also a member of the famed blues brothers and was in the original 1980s film of the same name. he performed recordings with eric clapton and neil young. dunn died in tokyo. he was 70 years old. here's him playing an instrumental of "green onions ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm don lemon. keeping you informed. cnn, the most trusted name in news. a quick check and i know my retirement is on course. [ male announcer ] with wells fargo advisor's envision plan, you always know where you stand. in fact, 93 percent of envision plan holders say they will retire on their own terms. get started on the plan you need today -- wells fargo advisors. together we'll go far. >>> oh, so amazing when he com

john. i'm just putting you on the spot here. do you think if there are a lot of people who are lining up to have the job at yahoo, the top job at yahoo, then scott thompsonould have already been asked to? >> you know, i think there are a lot of people who would like to have that job. scott thompson clearly one of them, sending in his resume. he wasn't even part of the search. but i think there are a number of people, former yahoos, who have opinions about how that company should be run. i talked to a number of them. under the right circumstances i'm sure they would stop doing what they're doing right now and lead that company. but it's going to take a lot of incentive, a lot of money to get someone over there. think how much yahoo had to pay terry semibillion a decade ago to go over there. he became a billionaire based on yahoo's stock. he did quite well for them for a while. you pay somebody the right amount of money they'll take a job like that. >> absolutely. better than coming in at the top of a company and destroying shareholder value. thank you for joining us. let's get out to brian schactman with another market flash. >> this is a complicate the o

thompson, where is he now? >> he's doing infomercials. >> for rudy giuliani. america's mayor, he shows up on cable tv. >> and then there's john> not having a good time at all. >> you've been compared to earnest hemingway. many people say you are this generation's earnest hemingway. >> is this your new mascot? >> yeah. this is the guy who was on the front of the book. he is the guy. it's actual lay photo of him. they just changed the base to make the united states. >> very clever. >> i moved to little rock, arkansas in 1983 where there was this, unknown little governor. whose wife happened to practice family law. so that adopted daughter of mine, 26 years ago, the adoption was done by our president's secretary of state. >> you're driving car pool in the morning. making lunches in the morning. >> or, you know, arranging play dates. or -- you know, arranging baby sitters when that's necessary. or you know, i'm very insistent about taking them to the dentist. >> oftentimes when i see you in the morning, wee hours, we both are at msnbc so early. i'm all this energy because that's the way i am and -- >> i know there's some people i

thompson, now saying he's leaving the company because he has thyroid cancer. earlier reports speculated he was stepping down amid allegations he lied about having a degree in computer science. >>> johnnse arguing that the money that went to edwards' mistress was not a campaign contribution. they've been arguing all along, it was a gift, and he knew nothing about it. >>> well, the president's re-election team today releasing a controversial new ad attacking mitt romney's business credentials. the six -- well, it's a six-minute piece, but the ad that's being launched in several key states is two minutes, and it takes a line of attack that's already been called inaccurate and unfair at least by "the washington post," but we're going to let you decide if this one is different. it focuses on governor romney's former firm, bain capital, and its takeover in the early '90s of a small steel mill that more than ten years later -- after mitt romney had already left bain as its ceo -- was eventually shut down. here's part of the ad. >> they issued $125 million of bonds, and out of that $125 million debt they paid themselves almost $40 million. >> it was like a vampire. they came in and sucked t

mark thompson, the national security correspondent for time magazine has not update. -- an update. white house, the terrorism adviser john brennan defended it a program today. he said targeted strikes unnecessary to prevent future attacks. the strikes target specific terrorist. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon everyone. welcome to the wilson center and a special welcome to our chairman of the board. this evidence conversation is a great tribute to the kind of work we do here. we care intensely about have our most important policy- makers here and getting objective accounts of what the united states government and other governments are doing. on september 10, 2001, i had lunch with mr. bremer. he chaired the congressional commission on terrorism on which i served. it was one of three task forces to predict a major terror attack on u.s. soil. at that lunch, we lamented that nobody was taking our report seriously. the next day, the world changed. in my capacity as a senior democrat, i was headed to the u.s. capitol at 9:00 a.m. when an urgent call turned me around. most think the capitol was the intended target of t