considering gatlin's pardon, did he know about the parole denial that happened while gatlin was serving him in the mansion. get this, only if the governor asks them to. did he ask? we don't know. and he's not talking. joining me now is randy walker who was shot and nearly killed by david gatlin. also joining us is jeffrey toobin. >> how did you find out that gatlin was serving as a trustee in the governor's mansion. >> i have never been contacted by the mdoc or anybody about that. the way we found out was a website for the department of corrections in mississippi. you can look opan inmate by last name or number, and i kaunconsty kept a check on him. there for a while, he was being transferred around between different facilities, and it was quite a shock when i saw in november of 2009 he became a trustee at the governor's mansion. >> you knew that he was a trustee at the governor's mansion. you knew that was a road to getting pardoned as other killers have in the past. did you try to contact theme, tell them he shouldn't be working at the governor's mansion? >> we tried to plead our case

in considering gatlin's pardon did he know about the parole denial that happened while gatlin was serving him in the mansion the parole board is required to investigate all requests for pardons or clemency. did he ask them to. we don't know and he's not talking. joining us senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and randy walker. how did you find out that gatlin was serving as a trustee in the governor's mansion? >> i have never been contacted by the mdoc or anybody about that. the way we found out was the website for the department of corrections in mississippi. you can look up an inmate by last name or inmate number and i kept a check on david every time -- probably about every two weeks i'd look to see where he was. there for a for a while he was transferred between different facilities as a trustee and it was a shock when i saw in november of 2009 that he came a trustee at the governor's mansion. >> you knew, if he was a trustee at the governor's mansion you knew that was a road eventually to getting pardoned as other killers have in the past. did you try to contact him and tell them he s

in the years before the murders and is helping gatlin get back on his feet.raying and playing the guitar. and jackson says he will protect him from anyone who comes around causing trouble. >> i told him that he had a home here, and if anybody tried to mess with him, i'd whip their ass. and so that's basically the way it boils down. >> so you're protecting him, basically, at this point? >> yes. >> you don't seem like the type of guy that would go around beating them up? >> well, that was when i was younger, you see, but i don't take [ bleep ] from anybody. >> so we don't need to wear out our welcome? >> you're fine because you're civil and you're talking. >> we tried, but he never gave us a chance to talk to david gatlin. >> thanks for trying. hey, in the meantime, someone is in newt gingrich's backyard today, that being mitt romney talking to reporters at the atlanta airport. he says he's not worried about losing last night's caucuses and primaries. let's listen. >> governor mccain, you know, after i think winning florida, he went on to lose, i don't know, 17

. >> reporter: caved gatlin appears willing to participate in the legal battle to decide if the records will be wiped clean by the pardons. sense gatlin and lee other killers who had worked as inmate trustees at the governor's mansion were released from custody, mississippi officials have tracked their whereabouts to offer comfort to those victims stung by the news of the pardons. joseph is live manage wyoming and his lawyer says he has no intentions of coming back. and david gat wherein left the say the, too. >> we're looking for david gat wherein. we were touk that he lives here in this neighborhood. and we think we've kind of come to the area where he might be. >> reporter: we found gat wherein in this neighborhood near birmingham, alabama. but when we knocked on the door, we didn't expect to meet a man named earnest jacksrnest jackso. >> ask me anything you want. >> you don't think david is a dangerous guy? >> hell, no. no. i really don't. i believe that forgiveness is the heart of christianity. and because all people make mistakes. especially in crimes of passion. >> reporter: jack

instead, he had a driver take him out to visit a rundown district of la, to meet reverend june gatlin, a spiritualist. >>i anoint you sir jacques. oman, a real life version of whoopi goldberg in ghost. like everyone in hollywood, june has her own entourage, ladies from the church keen to document our visit. mood. >>and he wrote here, today was like being baptised in the sea of life. i love you, michael jackson. he didn't have many people he could trust, but he turned to you and he asked you for advice? >>i know he could trust me because i wasn't (gasps) in awe, you know, i wasn't kissing his, his feet, or pulling at the hem of his garment. >>did you sense that he was in trouble? >>that he was going to die? yeah, i knew he was going to die. individuals that are thieves individuals who are determined to murder a spirit, they come with things, like werewolves you know, like vampires. d star, not in music or film, but in the church. >>people would gravitate towards me, and when they touched me they would feel better. i didn't, cos i could feel life being pulled off me. it's like somebody

david gatlin shot his wife in the head. anthony mccray was also convicted of killing his wife.arles hooker was a middle school teacher accused of murdering his school principal and joseph azmat shot to death a store clerk. others convicted of rape, drunk driving, robbery. mississippi attorney general calls the pardons a slap isn't the face to everyone in law enforcement. martin savidge joins us live from outside the court in jackson, mississippi. i understand the arguments underway, do we expect a decision? >> reporter: we do expect a decision at some point, but it suspe isn't going to happen today. it's clear the judges had read in well, they understood the questions and what is at stake here at this case, and there is a lot at stake. it is simply not just whether the pardons are valid or not. it goes to the heart of the constitution of the state of mississippi. it also goes to the power of clemency for the governor of mississippi and could it possibly be overruled. it gets into the fate of ten people, now, who were convicted and their freedom is at stake. it also goes to 173