they say the petite, soft spoken 32-year-old deserves to die because alexander's death was so heinousshower of his mesa, arizona, home in june of 2008. he had been stabbed 27 times, his throat was slit so deep he was almost decapitatdecapitated was shot in the head. the testimony of ryan burns this week may have made her look even worse. he was a romantic interest of jodi arias, who she visited in utah less than 24 hours after she committed the crime. >> what was her demeanor like? >> she was fine. she was laughing about simple little things, just like any other person. she was -- i never once felt that there was anything wrong. >> reporter: burns told the jury right after killing one man, she was kissing another. >> at some point, i mean, we were talking and we kissed. >> and did this kissing continue? or did it just stop at one kiss? >> eventually, we kissed probably many times. every time we started kissing, it got a little more escalated. >> reporter: his testimony is especially damaging because jodi arias says she killed travis alexander in self-defense. the couple only dated a f

she's just been arrested for the brutal murder of alexander. >> i'm begging you to at least come cleanme why. >> i wish that i had answers. i'm sorry. >> reporter: he was found butchered in the somehhower of home. >> if i was trying to kill somebody, i would use gloves. i have plenty of them. >> reporter: the 30-year-old businessman and devout mormon had been stabbed 27 times. his throat slit so deep he was almost de ceglcapitated. and he was shot in the head. >> this is over. this is absolutely over. you need to tell me the truth. >> the truth is i did not kill travis. >> reporter: on the tape, arias repeatedly denies she was at alexander's house after the crime. even after the detective confronts her with racy pictures of her in that bed that day. >> that looks like me. >> reporter: even after he tells arias her palm print was found at the bloody crime scene. >> how can that be my palm point? >> reporter: at one point, the detective leaves the room. arias stretches in the chair. then she stretches the truth even more. the admitted killer really turns on the tears. >> i'm just feeling

and lamar alexander complained about me to him. david ferry is his name. but lamar alexander did not ask david to fire me. but he wanted to raise his concern. to david's ferio's credit, he did not ask me to change what i was doing, nor did they curtail the project. >> lamar alexander had worked for richard nixon in the white house. >> what happened was, i had interviewed william timmins, who had been the head of the congressional office and he didn't like the interview. >> lamar alexander did not? >> timons. i'd interviewed lamar alexander and there was no trouble. i interviewed him in 2007. he enjoyed the interview. i interview timmons in 2009 and he did not like it -- he felt there were too many questions about watergate. he didn't like it. he was in a sense the rabbi -- if you will -- alexander's rabbi or godfather in washington. timons is older and alexander had worked for timons back in the nixon era. i think timmons asked him to do this. but it was because of the interview i did with timons. >> eagle bud crow went to prison.

this, alexander, is not your tongue. your tongue is muteulated, it's gone, rotten in your mouth along with the silence of the days where you became invisible you bad copy cat. despite the rage and the disappointment of your own kin. thank you. [applause] >> this is a scene from my novel [inaudible]. it seemed like a great opportunity to get to do this here. okay. what time is the first reader anyway? i didn't like bars this crowded. someone elbode me in the back. when i turned around i didn't know who the elbow belong said. relax. i didn't expect there to be this many people i thought they would be at the bar with the travel writers. i thought they the be with the hip sters i guess we are not hip sters we can't guess who they are into. we lessened the hipster intimidation factor and picked out the smart guy. this year we selected postmen pausal writers on the meaning of life. here i was, the city never fails to surprise me much the crowd was quieting. people were pointing toward the stage. i woman of 60 clamored on to it

where did you find alexander butterfield? >> some of them found through google people who knew people. we put out the word we were doing this. initially, the nixon foundation, the private foundation, provided the funding for the first ones we did. i was very upfront about what we were doing -- i promised the nixon foundation and the federal government that we would do a non-partisan oral history program. >> we do not see in these interviews. >> it is by choice. i remember going to a los angeles festival --halverstam, this was 2005, before i got that job -- he was talking about the best interviews. he said the best interviewer disappears. i thought, what i would do would be to disappear. my job would be to help the interviewee recall of dense, encourage them in creating a zone of comfort, but to disappear. the goal was for this to be video that could be used for documentary's in the future as well as for use in the museum. you do not want to see me. >> here it is alexander butterfield -- you interviewed him back in 2008. today

he looks like alexander. alexander is my son timmy's pet. the capsule became highly radio active. and by handling it...timmy has been exposed to radiation. ginny pigs probably been exposed to enough radiation to kill a thousand men. lieutenant! oh no! that's a theoretical statement. mrs. martin, even if your son has our ginny pig there is a chance it's a slight one but still it's a chance. how? because the purpose of this experiment was to see if the material covering the capsule would protect the ginny pig from the radiation in space. of course until we find that ginny pig, we won't know if the covering was penetrated by radiation or not. timmy's in danger. colonel, we better find him before it's too late. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ paul look! it's timmy's wagon! ♪ ♪ ♪ hold it mr. martin! it's probably contaminated. go ahead. what does it mean? it's contaminated. it's radio active. most likely from the capsule. maybe from the ginny pig. ♪ ♪ ♪ do you think he's around here lassie? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you found him

he was in a sense the rabbi -- alexander's godfather in washington. he is older. i think timmons asked him to do this. >> usually the question he tells us about the oval office -- here is another one the people my age will remember. the lincoln memorial story in the middle of the vietnam war. >> we follow him up to the lincoln memorial -- could not have gone there more than two minutes after he did. we went up to see what was going on and found him in discussion with 10 to 15 young people who had come in from all over the east coast. i believe there were only four secret service agents. it was a scary time. we got up there while it was still dark. he spent 45 minutes, maybe longer, talking to the students. i heard a lot of it, listened to it -- wrote down some of it after it was over. basically, it was a time when i was really afraid for his safety. i know he wrote later on that he had never seen the secret service quite so frightened. he certainly got that right. we did not have a sufficient detail to protect him if somebody had decided to attack him or assault h

>> jodi arias killed travis alexander. there is no question about it. the million dollars question is what would have forced her to do it? >> it is no doubt about it in my mind this was a rage or a killing. >> here is a woman that gets a gun, gets a knife and puts it to what she suspects is good use against this guy. >> i felt that the gunshot wound may have been last but in any event the gunshot wounds and the wounds to the neck would have had to have come after the defensive wounds of the hands. >> certainly if she is going to claim self-defense she is going to have to get up on the stand and she is going to have to testify and justify each and every wound and why. >> what really happened in there? >> in a nut shell, two people took travis' life. two monsters. >> you did not shoot travis? >> i have never even shot a real gun. >> you did not stab him 27 times. >> that is heinou is s. >> or lit his throat from ear to ear? >> i can't imagine slitting any one's throat. >> if i was going to ever try to kill obama i would use gloves. i've got plenty of them

>> jodi arias killed travis alexander. there is no question about it. the million dollars question is what would have forced her to do it? >> it is no doubt about it in my mind this was a rage or a killing. >> here is a woman that gets a gun, gets a knife and puts it to what she suspects is good use against this guy. >> i felt that the gunshot wound may have been last but in any event the gunshot wounds and the wounds to the neck would have had to have come after the defensive wounds of the hands. >> certainly if she is going to claim self-defense she is going to have to get up on the stand and she is going to have to testify and justify each and every wound and why. >> what really happened in there? >> in a nut shell, two people took travis' life. two monsters. >> you did not shoot travis? >> i have never even shot a real gun. >> you did not stab him 27 times. >> that is heinou is s. >> or lit his throat from ear to ear? >> i can't imagine slitting any one's throat. >> if i was going to ever try to kill obama i would use gloves. i've got plenty of them

alexander did not die calmly. he fought. >> reporter: arias also wiped away tears as her attorney painted a different picture, of an abused woman who was forced to kill in self-defense. and a victim who claimed to be a devout mormon but was really a sexual deviant. >> in just those two minutes, jody had to make a choice. she would either live or she would die. >> reporter: this twisted tale has everything. today, the jury saw steamy photos of the victim in the shower just before he was killed. there's also a sex tape of the couple together, and a series of jailhouse interviews when arias repeatedly denies she killed anyone. >> i didn't hurt travis. i would never hurt travis. i would be shaking in my boots right now if i had to answer to god for such a heinous crime. >> reporter: the two met at a work conference six years ago. jody says they fell in love and traveled the country. family members say travis was a devout mormon and didn't believe in premarital sex. they say he lost his virginity to jody. she even conv

alexander did not die calmly.e fought whoever this person was that had killed him, he had fought. >> geraldo: meet our first guest tonight, dave hall. last week we met him. he is back. a friend of the victim. he has been in court monitoring the action. welcome back. dr. david hughes an even closer connection to travis alexander the man who was slain. dr. hughes introduced travis to the woman who would ultimately kill him. dr. hughes, how did you happen to introduce travis to jodi? >> we were at the convention a legal shield convention in las vegas and i had met jodi for the first time. i knew of her. i had talked to her on the phone. that was the first time i had met her and she is an attractive girl and i knew that trace gallagher travis alexander is a single guy and always looking. i said there s a cute gal on my team and you should meet h her. he said introduce me. the relationship developed after that. >> geraldo: the rest is his tore arery. grim nightmarish history. dr. hughes, you never had a relationship wi

alexander stories would be similar to thousands of other single fathers if not for his eyes. a few years ago his wife left for another family shortly before the divorce the man lost his eyesight in a car accident he stayed alone with his three young daughters. says here papa. first alexander's relatives helped him with the girls now he's learned to care for them by himself. to go to of lives five hundred kilometers south of moscow in the city of course many people that know him if you. come here the largest one stop wait a minute wait don't dance. it wastes only four to five kilos from them yes we keep them for me so we can eat me while the kids are in school i go in concert grass. and they come home they first have a rest and then the also go and get some grass so there is enough in the evening for the next morning you. know start here comes our little lena my hold up alina i was school it was ok one margin is you get four out of five. what a good girl you are you know. i'm not but lena is he goes youngest daughter she's only nine years old in total going to go to have has t

now, her oldest son, crown prince willem alexander will extend -- ascend to the throne. queen beatrix celebrates her 75th birthday this week, in the knowledge that the succession is secure. >> we are joined -- >> we are joined by a guest who is in the hague. why has the queen made this announcement now? >> queen beatrix will be 75 years old on thursday. that was one of the two reasons she gave for stepping down to the second is that the kingdom of the netherlands is celebrating -- stepping down. the second is that the kingdom of the netherlands is celebrating an anniversary. she wanted to choose a very historic occasion two and 100 years of female rain -- reign in the netherlands. >> what kind of king will willem-alexander be? , i think he will be very disney like. he has been traveling throughout the country with his wife --, i think he will be -- >> i think he will be very businesslike. he has been traveling with his wife. he is willing to take over his mother's role. he does not have to. he is a popular young man. 45 years old, young children peered i have interviewed

prompted several russian stars to come home including alexander ovechkin the forward failed to score on his return to deny my last go but it did and assist as his side hamilton and i minced seven two in moscow was on day but out of watched the return of over. on wednesday alexander ovechkin signed a concert with his former club in defending champions new nominee moscow and the very next day all eyes were on the twenty seven year old russian star marquee his first time in the white and blue jersey for all was seven years and in the first line it's home to denominate here and in the city point as the home site twice came back before routing the belorussian side seven two that's always nice to be home on you know. i was a little nervous because i didn't play almost seven years on. the russian leaks our . car that's it was something new for me and now i'm praying that. the first five showing and i think a couple a while and now i have some chances to score but it was means could took the lead me way for the first period geoff clark skating to the zone and with his name on the scoreboard

in her abdication speech, queen beatrix said wilhelm alexander was ready to become queen. the surprise announcement came just a few days before her 75th birthday. already is generating talk of a royal domino affect with other europeans asking how long before their monarchs it way to future generations. the official dutch abdication will take place on april 30 or queen's day. from then on, kings they will be held on wilhelm alexander's birthday a few days before, a celebration of the first king to rule the kingdom of the netherlands in more than a century. bbc news, the hague. >> let's talk some more about this. kate williams is a royal historian angeles be in the studio. nice to see you. this is the best way of doing things. >> there is a precedent. her mother advocated before her, her grandmother also advocated and prince wilhelm, much younger, 45. we have quite a silver market. we of queen elizabeth ii, 86, the king of norway, 75, the king of spain, 75, queen of denmark, 73 and the tricks herself is coming up to 75. >> on thursday. >> her birthday. >> generally when you

jill bide ep is accompanied by honey alexander, the wife of senator lamar alexander. and by debby boehner, wife of house speaker john boehner. sorry to interrupt you there. >> more recently, you may disagree with the content and the tone but no one will dispute the fact that george w. bush was aiming for the bleachers with his second inaugural with what he called his freedom speech which is -- in terms of projecting american force, moral and military around the world in the wake of 9/11 and the doctrine of preemptive military action. >> you knows the reference to lincoln, we talk about being in a divided america now. in many ways we are politically. but you think about lincoln and that inauguration, both of his, it was a different level. >> different level all together. he is involved in the conflict where half a million people would be killed, the end of channeled slavery. a lot is at stake. we're fighting now but not anywhere like that, thank god. >> we're about to see the introduction of the first lady of the united states, michelle obama. as you watched her grow i

chairman. >> thank you, senator alexander. a tradition or rule of this committee that senator is recognized in order of appearance and we have senator murray and senator enzi and we will go back and forth and senator baldwin, murphy, sanders, i would now recognize senator murray. >> thank you for holding this important hearing. it is especially important to note obviously the issue of newtown focused everybody on it but this is an issue all of us have been working on a long time myself included and it is a great time to refocus, really important for the first hearing and i appreciate that. senator alexander, welcome to the new ranking member position and look forward to working with you at all the new members. a lot of great talent here. and we will be able to do some good things with this committee. and to both of my witnesses, i did want to go back, mentioned it several times but in the president's recently released gun violence package he should three parity provisions, one clarifying parity for medicaid, spanish plants, an

alexander: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: mr. president, i want to thank senator levin for his leadership and senator mccain, senator schumer, cardin, pryor and senator kyl who is now retired from the senate and senator barrasso. we're hopeful that the leaders will be able to recommend to us a set of changes in our rules and procedures and practices that will help the senate operate in a fairer and more efficient way. that's what all of us want. it's surprising how many of us want that. we all worked pretty hard to get here. we all understand we're political accidents. the senator from maine, the senator from arkansas, all of us know that. we're just very fortunate to be here. and while we're here, we'd like to contribute something. and that gets down really to just a couple of things. let's have a committee bill come to the floor, let's make it easy for it to come to the floor, and let us make it easy for senators from the various states and the various points of view to have their say, to offer their amendment, to have it voted