1952, dwight eisenhower was about to win the nomination to become the republican president. >> earl warren, the governor of california, was withholding the delegation's votes. governor warren tells eisenhower, i'll deliver the delegation for you on one condition. i want to be the next chief justice of the supreme court, ike, the great war hero, shakes hands, says you got a deal. he wins. one year later, earl warren is the chief justice of the united states supreme court. >> rod wanted a political appointment from obama, and for that he was prepared to trade obama's old senate seat, which is actually legal. otherwise, eisenhower would have gone to jail and americans would not have liked ike. do you see yourself as somebody who was just trying to function in perhaps an inherently corrupt but legal system, and that theoretically, almost any politician could be snagged the way you were? >> absolutely. of course i do. except i'm giving me higher marks because i was using that money and that power it gave me to fight an established system that served itself on the backs of the people. and when y

so they issue a earl warren like ruling that that testimony is inadmissible. and it's going to become increasingly clear that the judges are sympathetic to lizzie. oh one piece of evidence they're going bring out andrew borden skull lizzie is allowed to leave the room although faints on the way they boiled off his skin to show a harvard medical professor who is going to testify that the hatchet head they found in the basement fit the wounds on andrew borden's. now response the is going to pull a fast one and they're going to bring out a hatchet with a handle and say here's a hatchet just like the one they found to show me to this expert. it show me how the hatchet fits the wounds. and becau it was a new hatchet rather than an one. hatchets wear down over time. the expert get it to fit and. there's gasps in the courtroom. the prosution says, no, this is the difference between the new accent and old. but people are like, you know. if the ax doesn't fit, you must acquit. they will also put on the stand the the harvard professor who examined the stomachs of abby b