pew research center alan murray. it is hosted by kantar consulting firm and you're watching c-span 2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome ken goldstein of kantar. [applause] >> that was sort of dramatic. good morning. i have, sort of spent a lifetime introducing myself, usually, you know, good morning i'm professor goldstein. this is polly sci 104 good to have overachievers here in the front row. never actually been announced like that. at the risk of her killing me, which she may, i want to recognize elizabeth wilner before she, before we get started and give her -- [applause] this event from soup-to-nuts, the project, even the big k that you see out there is really completely due to elizabeth and we have an amazing group of people here in the audience. we're going to have an amazing group of panelists up here and as all of you have learned, when elizabeth asks you to do something the correct answer is yes and, and, i think the fact th

alan murray. the president of pew research. you may remember him from his days being a journalist.ight. years ago at the "the wall street journal." and at the very end wearing a baseball tie, you are surveying all the parks in america; is that correct? [inaudible] >> so you to hit the speak button. we'll get there in a second. he's partner at public opinion strategy. he's one of the pollsters for the nbc/"the wall street journal" poll. that's the group in front of us. they have a lot of experience and insight and a lot of opinions about how this goes. so i just want to start with -- this is a question to the entire panel, anybody can jump in. remember to push the speak button so the red light is on. i want to go to the big point to start with. it goes to the issue that ken started with, which is the issue of trust. the fact that three out of four people that were surveyed said they don't trust the polls they're seeing. it seems to me that's really the issue we should start with. which is how do we get as practitioners and people who cover the practitioners, people who actually trus

if a jury decides that murray isn't solely responsible for jackson's death and that aeg live is also liable, it could cost the concert promotion company a lot of money. cnn's alane has been covering this case since jackson's death. >> the jackson's hired an expert, a cpa who had worked with major artists for decades, to estimate what would michael jackson possibly with a reasonable certainty have earned had he not died june 25th, 2009. from touring and merchandise sales just on the "this is it" tour would have been $1.5 billion. >> this isn't his final days. >> aeg live attorney marvin putnam believes this case is about one thing and one thing only. did aeg live negligently hire dr. conrad murray? as the trial got under way he told me that the company never even employed murray. >> even had he been hired by aeg live, he certainly wasn't hired negligently. there were no indications in any measure that there was a problem with dr. conrad murray. to be a negligent hire it isn't just that you hired but you had to hire knowing there was a problem. and aeg live had no indication at any point that there was a problem with conrad murray. >> cnn legal contributor sunny

murray the day before michael died, so everybody didn't sign it. those are the crucial questions. did they hire him, and was it negligent? >> okay. alanion here if the jackson family wins this thing is in the billions of dollars. alan, thank you. >>> twitter, facebook, vine. the internet is filled with sites where you can share your pictures and messages. those sites can be land mines to teenagers who may not think twice before posting embarrassing items online. now the governor of california has signed a law giving kids a get out of jail free card. we'll explain. but first, a quick look at the dow. pretty flat. just down about four points as we're about 40 minutes away from the closing bell. there were some new housing numbers for july. its best 12-month price gain in almost eight years. we'll be right back. >>> we have all -- i say we, maybe some of us more than others -- have felt the regret the nanosecond your finger hits tweet or post. the bad word or photo sent in your moment of thoughtlessness has become a permanent fixture online. now kids in california get what we all want, an internet eraser of sorts. there's now this new la

murray is appealing his conviction. he was convicted of giving jackson a deadly dose of propofol. if they found aeg is also liable it could cost the company a lot of money. alanuke has been covering it since his death. >> they worked with major artists for decades to estimate what would michael jackson possibly be with a reasonable certainty have earned had he not died june 25th, 2009. from touring and merchandise sales just on the this is it tour would have been $1.5 billion. >> this isn't his final days. >> aeg live attorney michael putnam believes it is about one thing and one thing only. did they negligently hire murray. as the trial got under way he told me that the company never even employed murray. >> had he been hired by aeg he wasn't hired negatively. no indications that there was a problem with dr. conrad murray. it isn't that you hired but knowing that there was a problem. and they had no indication that there was a problem with conrad murray. >> sonny hossen. >> it's pretty interesting. listen, we didn't pick conrad murray. he had a history of drug abuse. and he chose the person that would help him with his addiction. >> i spoke with aeg's presid

murray's job, then you know that was a job that only mr. jackson could have hired him to do. >> cnn's alan courtroom. it wasn't just the kids the defense mentioned today. also the mother. also katherine jackson. >> yes, katherine jackson, in the courtroom herself, watching this. she's had some harsh words exchanged on the stand with this attorney, marvin putnam. it was interesting watching her as she had to listen to him this morning sum up the case against her argument that aeg live is liability for her son's death. by the way, her grandkids, tag and tj are in there along with daughter rebbie jackson. >> jackson's lawyers told how much they want this concert promoter to pay the mother, the kids here. what's the breakdown? >> well, they're asking for up to $1.5 billion for damages, money to compensate them for what michael jackson didn't earn because he died. lost earnings capacity. then another $290 million for non-economic or personal losses, divided up mostly with his three children, but with $35 million that would go to katherine jackson. this was the jackson lawyer's suggest to them.