avery friedman is a law professor.minal defense attorney and law professor. welcome back. okay, richard, we're talking about allegations of sexual abuse taking place at oprah's south african schools but then the head mistress says the things oprah said about her management of the case means that her character was defamed. so therefore she is taking oprah winfrey to court. did i get it right? >> kind of right. a dorm matron at the school was convicted of 13 counts of assault and indecent assault, et cetera. students complained to oprah saying that the head mistress knew about it and covered it up. oprah's defense will be a good faith basis. it's her opinion. truth is always a defense in a defamation case. she relied on the students and let's remember, fred, the school is so personal to oprah, she personally hired the head mistress and not only that, she personally interviewed every student who was enrolled there. so if you think that oprah's going to lose a case in the united states, especially in philadelphia, you can

our legal guys avery friedman and richard herman will be along to talk about that possibility. everyone's sweetheart, sandra bullock, you all know by now trouble in paradise. well, when they were married and just prior to, she actually helped secure custody for jesse james. so now our legal guys will talk about what could potentially happen to that custody issue now that there is this kind of trouble in paradise. in our 2:00 eastern hour we'll talk about help for people on student loans as well as on keeping their homes. our financial expert will be joining us to talk about how both congress and the president have come up with plans to help you on both those matters. >> the blogs are going crazy over that mortgage remodification plan. some people are saying, why are we being punished for paying our bills on time? then the other people say, no, listen. if your neighbors are facing foreclosure your value goes down. >> right. if you lost your job and you can't pay your mortgage a lot of folks are saying this is the kind of help they need to keep their homestead. >> i'm glad you're

>> avery johnson?saw it or someone tipped you off. >> phil: my good friend is not here to give me those very helpful hints. it wasn't spiderman. >> steve: pistons miss nine straight field goals over two quarters. since then, they've made five of their last six. the wizards in this quarter are just 2-13 from the field. >> phil: they've been sadly outrebounded. >> steve: pretty move by andray blatche as he could not be stopped by villanueva and the lead is 9. another jumper knocked down. he played all five years here. they picked him back in 2005. here's mcgee inside, and the wizards turn over. >> phil: i don't know if that pass was for him. maybe it was for thornton. >> steve: shooting 54.5% from the field. mcgee gets it. blatche inside to thornton, picks it up, no good. mcgee battles. thornton trying to get it. villanueva has it. picked off. thornton inside, lays it up and in. nicely done. >> phil: >> phil: he has great elevation. >> steve: he's come to washington with a lot of spring in his step. he c

avery, good morning. caller: good morning. as long as i have been a voter, i have voted democrat. what i want to the democrats and though, if that it -- if that bill passes, i will go the very first day that i can get to the court house and i will never as long as i live vote for democrat no matter what. i will change to a republican. host: why is that? caller: they are passing that health bill, which is not going to help nobody no way, whatsoever. if anything, it will make things worse. host: from "the new york times" in case you missed this, idaho signing a bill to prevent insurance mandates. "the governor became the first state chief executives signing a measure requiring his attorney general to sue congress if it passes health-care legislation that requires residents to purchase insurance. similar legislation is pending in other states, constitutional experts say that the move is mostly symbolic. opponents said the suits would be frivolous and kate kelly complained about the democrat -- complained about the possible cost of the enforcement, $100,000 per year. -- $100,000 per y

allegeny, ash, avery, caldwell, hayward, on and on and on and on. i looked through the list. we've had 16 or 17 disasters declared already this year across the country. luckily none of them from in colorado. i looked at last year. we had several -- well, we had dozens and dozens all across the country, including others in north carolina. none were in colorado, but i can tell you coloradans understand that this is a national issue. this is something that we take care as citizens, as americans across the country because we're in this together. it isn't, let's just wait until the whole thing runs out and then scurry around and try to figure out what to do. we are dealing with disasters. when i'm listening to my friend from north carolina, it's like she wants to have katrina happen all over again. where we're not prepared, the country is not prepared to deal with a massive emergency. that's what this is all about. it's about funding fema so that it can respond to the emergencies that we know are going to arise. and so all of this conversation about procedural tricks and you aren'

theological libraries arranged a alphabetically by authors so we have got a dustin, con thar come avery moves over here and wraps around. there's an enormous amount, rap singer much of which i had before but since he was elected pope there have been an extraordinary number of small books he has put out and joseph rett sinner no benefit xvi has a remarkably small hand. it was his christmas present in 1997, very concise and writing. >> the bible, what version do you turn to and -- >> it's not easy these days. most modern translations i find our flawed in one way or another. i generally use the revised standard version. if i don't like it i will use my own translation. but generally i stick to the rsv which i think is good for accuracy and literary style. still the gold standard for translations. not the nrsv, the rsv de retial rsv cannot in the mid 40's were the 1950's. >> so the revised standard edition -- sprick the revised standard version was done by the council to churches in the late 40's and early 50's, and that's the one that i -- that is my default position cetacean source. if th