michael and gordon had a problem.dn't attack the damaging testimony of kevin freeman, the man they believed murdered ray liuzza. >> freeman was shot dead in 1995 while committing a robbery. >> with freeman dead, his previous testimony stood as evidence that thompson had committed the liuzza murder. >> we had all this evidence that freeman had lied in his original testimony and we wouldn't be able to use that evidence effectively if we couldn't cross examine him live on the stand. >> michael and gordon proposed an unorthodoxed solution. after freeman's testimony was read into the record they would cross-examine the empty witness stand as if he were on the stand. >> we took the evidence of the lies and put them in the form of questions. >> you told the jury you didn't know that john thompson was going to rob someone. isn't it true, however, that you set out to rob someone? silence hung in the air after each question was posed, giving the jury time to imagine freeman's response. you suggested in your testimony that you s

mark has written extensively on this topic, and michael gordon cush tourism, colorado's first marijuana tours. so michelle, you look at the trends and the polls, and it's really true, a lot of people do believe that it's just a when, and not an if. some estimate that the next decade or two, from your perspective, where is this conversation at right now in the u.s.? >> i actually think that it's going to happen much sooner than people realize. i believe that by 2016 we'll see a revenue of $32 billion. and they're looking at colorado as the great experiment that they're looking at. and in my opinion, it's quite evident that it's a huge success. the demand was so great that within the first week, the retail outlets were actually sold out. so in my opinion, when you realize there's a tremendous public acceptance and record rates of approval throughout the country, and when you realize that people like me, a corporate woman, who is also a mom with two beautiful daughters, and i used it personally, and it worked for me. this is a rebranding campaign. marijuana got a bad rap, and it's a miracu

charles: like michael gordon scoring 25 points, not good enough but it should be. >> gas prices are making through, as consumer gets behind this, spending more money would be great but then have you goldman sachs, lowest trading since 2005. overall, i think ready to get in the market, 1 the buying started to tracked in weak people on sidelines. >> that was michigan sentiment number that came in at a 10 year high, but not near the correlation it had with stock market in 2000, we're feeling better than we have in the last decade, but stock market, we're we're at all-time highs still tough going getting everyone to buy into this. >> we have a happy consumer and worried economists, you asked me whether the fallen oil of the good for the consumer or bad for stock market, it has weighed on stocks. i think we're at the pherg merc. >> banks operating as banks is positive, and banks operating at hedge funds not so good. charles: it seems that community banks are up, they are doing better. maybe under the scope of the dodd-frank regulation, the big names are getting hid, kirk, help us how the. >> bi

, like michael jordan leaving basketball, tom brady leaving football, wayne gretsky leaving hockey, it's -- >> there's a seminal moment in sports. >> anyone else who could be the next jeff gordonrian is a race car guy knowing more than i do, but there's other iconic figures in the sport. he's been there for a long time, over 20 years. >> everything is a young man's game now. >> absolutely. >> good to go out on top as you say. >> absolutely. >> thank you, miles, great to see you. >> pleasure, great to be here. >> come on again. >>> all right. final trades crossing for the day, settling down at 3% to 46.33. oil had seen, you know, i don't want to call it upside moe ten tum, but it seemed to firm couple days ago, but not the case today, down 1.44 a barrel. there you go. >> a sale call on a name i'm sure you all know. we'll give you the answer if you stay tuned. >> massive fire ripping through an apartment complex down the road here in new jersey. full details behind that devastating video. this is a huge, huge fire, and thankfully, nobody was injured. when we come back. outside of the nasdaq, where we bring you live daily market updates. and today, we have a very special free gif