guy blankenship, the man who said julia tried to hire him to kill melvin.a police informant motivated by money. you went so far as to call guy blankenship a maggot. >> i do remember. >> does maggot fit? >> at the time, i'm sure it did. >> reporter: finally the defense had to counter the heart of the prosecution's case. motive. the state cleaned julia feared she was about to be dumped and written out of melvin's will. but her lawyer said they were still a happy couple, just look at the lingerie julie was wearing and the blues she brought with her that i. >> she picked up mike's hard lemonade and went to meet melvin at the house on her birthday. >> it was supposed to be hot and steamy night. >> the idea that julia was broke and needed melvin's money come also not true, said the defense julia's lawyer argued they immediately had plenty of money and was willing to spend it. >> her family came and paid substantial attorney fees. >> her family is paying her medical bills. her family is bringing her food and taking care of her and taking her where she needs to go.

. >> we have john blankenship with us let's talk about the comments and whether or not we see krogers indicative of the consumer spending story, john. >> dominic, let's scroll back to yesterday and talk about food at home which is the kroger story which is 0.0 it was a flat story for the cpi. food was up .3% in the month this is also the story of goods and services goods are basically flat services are still showing some strength so, this is kind of what -- what kroger is probably going to face which is a flat market for pricing. that has been true for food over there overall. 2.1% for food prices overall i like your headline this will be about the merger with albertsons, most of all, because they will try to overwhelm this weakness with some kind of national excitement over a multi-thousand store strategy to bei able to take on the real elephant in the room which is walmart >> can we talk about this with the current house views as anti-competitive or mostnopolisc practices? we know the ftc has not been kind to these types of mergers how are you handicapping these types of deals happ