mr. alexander in the shower? >> yes. >> what made these pictures key to the case had to do with a feature built in to the camera. >> these images, when you take it with this camera, it embeds the date and time the camera has to the file itself. >> meaning for the prosecution those photos along with the other evidence, told a story. that jodi showed up at travis' home around 4:00 a.m. on june h, between 5:22 and 5:29, jodi took these time stamped photos of travis in his shower. about one minute after this picture was taken the repeated stabbing of travis alexander began. maricopa county medical examiner kevin horn testified that cuts on travis' hands help explain what happened as he was stabbed 27 times, nearly decapitated and shot in the head. >> i believe the wounds to the hands must have occurred before the fatal injuries, either of the head or of the throat. >> at 5:31, the camera snaps what seems to be an accidental photo of the bathroom ceiling. the next photo at 5:32 shows travis on the floor, bleeding prof

mr. alexander in the shower?yes. >> what made the pictures key to the case had to do with a feature built in to the camera. >> these images, when you take them with this camera, it embeds the date and time that the camera has set on it to the file itself. >> meaning for the prosecution those photos, along with the other evidence, told a story. that jodi showed up at travis' home around 4 a.m. on june 4th, 2008. they had steamy sex until about 5:00 p.m. photographing each other as they did so. between 5:22 and 5:29, jodi took these time-stamped photos of travis in his shower about one minute after this picture was taken the repeated stabbing of travis alexander began. maricopa county medical examiner kevin horn testified that cuts on travis' hands help explain what happened as he was stabbed 27 times, nearly decapitated and shot in the head. >> i believe the wounds to the hands must have occurred before the fatal injuries, either of the head or of the throat. >> at 5:31, the camera snaps what seems to be an accide

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mr. alexander: i notice the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: thor senator mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: i ask to vitiate the quorum, and i ask consent to also include in the record the names of the -- the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: -- the names of the members of the iran-contra select committee. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: i notice the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: . quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i have one unanimous consent request for a committees to meet during today's session of the it has been approved by me and the republican leader. i consent that that request be agreed to and printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid:

mr. alexander and left a message, right?reporter: but despite her efts, jodi now took the jury through the grizzly details of the killing. starting when she dropped travis' new camera. >> at that point travis flipped out again. he picked it up as i was getting out of the shower and body slammed me again on the tile. he told me that a five-year-old could hold a camera better than i can. when i hit the tile, i rolled over and started running down the hallway. i went into the closet and slammed the door. >> then, jodi reached for a .25 caliber gun she said travis kept on the shelf. >> i grabbed the gun, i ran out of the closet, he was chasing me. i turned around. we were in the middle of the bathroom. i pointed it at him with both of my hands. i thought that would stop him. if somewhere were pointing a gun at me, i would stop. but he just kept running. he got like a line backer. he got kind of low and grabbed my waist. but before he did that, as he was lunging at me, the gun went off. >> there is zero evidence that established

mr. alexander and you left him a message, right?s. >> but despite her earlier efforts, jodi took him through the details of the grizzly killing, starting when she dropped travis' new camera. >> at that point, travis flipped out again. he stood up and he stepped out of the shower and he picked me up as he was screaming that i was a stupid idiot. and he body slammed me again on the tile. he told me that a five-year-old can hold a camera better than i can. >> when i hit the tile, i rolled over on the side and started running down the hallway. >> then, jodi reached for a .25 caliber gun she says travis kept on the shelf. >> i thought that would stop him. if someone were pointing a gun at me, i would stop. he just kept running. he got like a linebacker. he got kind of low and grabbed my waist. but before he did that, the gun went off. >> there's zero evidence, independent evidence, evidence other than words out of jodi arias' mouth that establish travis alexander as a gun owner. there is none. >> prosecutor juan martinez' theory was that

mr. alexander and you left him a message, right? >> yes. >> reporter: but despite her early efforts at a cover-up jodi now took the jury through the grisly details of the killing, starting when she dropped travis's new camera. >> at that point travis flipped out again. he stood up and he stepped out of the shower and he picked me up as he was screaming that i was a stupid idiot and he body-slammed me again on the tile. he told me that a 5-year-old can hold a camera better than i can. when i hit the tile, i rolled over on the side and started running down the hallway. so i ran into the closet and i slammed the door. >> reporter: then jodi reached for a .25-caliber gun she said travis kept on the shelf. >> i grabbed the gun. i ran out of the closet. he was chasing me. i turned around. we were in the middle of the bathroom. pointed it at him with both of my hands. i thought that would stop him. if someone were pointing a gun at me, i would stop. but he just kept running. he got -- like a linebacker he got kind of low and grabbed my wai

mr. alexander in it, how this mr. ander that is going to be with her in the future after he's married and he has kids, she's married she has kids, the children are going to plating. absolutely staging the scene again, continually staging the scene so that if the police start making inquiries guess what she didn't know he was dead or she was just normal with me, mr. burns would say she was talking about the future. again, she's just staging the scene after what she has done. cenk: well, here's how my history with jodi arias goes. i ignored the story for the first 900 times that i saw it on line and then finally, it was like let's figure out what that is. she stabs thify 27 times shoots him in the face, slits his throat changes her story three times. why is this trial even interesting when she seems like she's the most guilty person in the history of america? >> i think that's precisely what makes it so interesting. there's so much evidence that shows not only premeditation but really just the gruesomeness of the crime.

mr. alexander suffered. mr. alexander suffered pain every time that knife went into his body.ry time that knife blade struck the back of his head, and when the blade went down to his throat it was certainly also extremely painful. >> that was juan martinez the prosecutor speaking there. while his words were excruciate excruciatingly descriptive in terms of the pain, that's what all this is about the pain that travis alexander felt, one of the most amazing parts where he sat there in total silence for a period of two minutes and showed what two minutes of suffering feels like. and two minutes of dead silence in a courtroom is an unbelievably effective tool, and you could only hear the whimpering of the family crying there. >> mark: for those of uninitiated, he went there all of this, and replaying what happens and playing out those beats because he wants to send this to a death penalty phase. >> the first phase just to get this in a little law 101 the first phase did she do it, did she not? guilty. that was a week ago. then this phase is was there extreme cruelty. not just the

mr. alexander and you left him a message, right?. >> but despite her earlier efforts at a cover-up, jodi now took the jury through the grisly details of the killing. starting when she dropped travis' new camera. >> at that point, travis flipped out again. he stood up and he stepped out of the shower and he picked me up as he was screaming that i was a stupid idiot. and he body slammed me again on the tile. he told me that a 5-year-old could hold a camera better than i can. when i hit the tile, i rolled over on the side and started running down the hallway. so i ran into the closet and i slammed the door. >> then, jodi reached for a .25 caliber gun she said travis kept on the shelf. >> i grabbed the gun. i ran out of the closet. he was chasing me. i turned around and we were in the middle of the bathroom, i pointed it at him with both of my hands. i thought that would stop him. if someone were pointing a gun at me, i would stop. he just kept running. he got like a linebacker. he got kind of low and grabbed my waist. but before he did

mr. alexander suffered. mr. exander suffered paib every time that knife went into his body. >> tomorrow, the penalty phase of the trial begins, after more witness testimony, the jury will decide whether arias should be executed or spend life in prison. if you were on that jury, would you vote life or death? go to gretawire.com and tell us now. we are back in 2. lets you hear d even in stupid loud places. to prove it, we set up our call center right here... [ chirp ] all good? [ chirp ] getty up. seriously, this is really happening! [ cellphone rings ] hello? it's a giant helicopter ma'am. [ male announcer ] get it done [ chirp ] with the ultraugged ocera torque, only from sprint direct conct. buy one get four free for your business. only from sprint direct conct. help the gulf recover, andnt to learn from what happenedg goals: so we could be a better, safer energy company. i've been with bp for 24 years. i was part of the team that helped deliver on our commitments to the gulf - and i can tell you, safety is at t

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mr. alexander: mr. president, let me know when i've consumed 2 1/2 minutes. the presiding officer: the senator is recognized. mr. alexander: mr. president, i congratulate the senator from north dakota on 20 years of advocacy, senator enzi for his 11 years of tireless work here and senator durbin for his effective advocacy, and i'd make four quick points. the senator from texas said reinvigorating the economy should be the number-one priority for federal and state leaders. that is precisely the first sentence of art laugher art lafe columnist in the "wall street journal," where he says states can cut their income tax rates if web vendors collect the sales taxes that are legally due. in other words, if you want economic growth, vote for the marketplace fairness act. number two, the idea this is too complex to do, mr. president, more than half of the sales now made on the internet are by retailers who collect the tax when it's sold. it's a tax that's already owed so how could it be too complex for anybody

mr. alexander's throat from ear to ear? r: arias spent 18 days on the witness stand, sometimes breaking down in tears as she defended herself. initially she claimed she had nothing to do with alexander's death. she then blamed his murder on a home invasion. eventually she admitted she killed alexander but claimed it was self-defense. >> he was coming after me. he was coming after me. he wasn't stopping. >> reporter: the televised trial was filled with so much drama it became a sensation for tabloid tv watchers. people tried to buy tickets to attend the trial, and there's already a made-for-tv movie in the works. arias could face the death penalty in her sentencing. bigad shaban, cbs news. >>> well, new jersey governor chris christie disclose add few days ago he underwent surgery to lose weight. already one newspaper put its photoshop skills to the test to see what the new governor would look like. they published this on its front page on wednesday showing a rather svelte governor christie. looking good. >>> up next, secret s

mr. alexander: i ask consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. ander: i ask to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: friday's "washington post" reported that secretary sebelius of health and human services has gone -- quote -- "hat in hand to industry executives asking them to make large donations to help with the effort to implement president obama's landmark health care law" -- end of quote. i ask unanimous consent to include the article following my remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: the unusual fundraising push comes after the congress has rejected the requests for funds to set up the affordable care act. the article said many of the secretary's calls have recruited support for enroll america, described as the most prominent nonprofit working on the health care law's implementation, its president and joined the group in january after as deputy director for public engagement. today "the new york times" included an article by robert pierre, cabinet secretary solic

malice is on this ongoing story that we're keeping our viewers a very strong thank you very much mr alexandersell enough political analyst be speaking with us right as we've just heard there are concerns have been voiced across the europe over the lifting of the bad now they say the arms could easily reach extremist groups fighting in the ranks of the opposition forces allegations of torture and human rights abuses at the hands of the rebels the situation could now did to rate even further now on supply could hamper any peace initiative and there also fears that more weapons would only feel the conflict in syria but despite the lifting of this ban antiwar activist richard becker says the arms embargo never stop the western supporters of the opposition. the arms embargo was a bit of fiction anyway they aren't supporting into the opposition in syria but for coming from qatar and saudi arabia there are undoubtedly be organized by the united states and the other nato powers where they really mean is that they want to send heavier weapons and because the opposition has suffered serious side effect

mr. alexander and you left him a message, right?> but despite her early efforts at a cover-up, jodi now took the jury through the grisly details of the killing, starting when she dropped travis' new camera. >> at that point travis flipped out again. he stood up and he stepped out of the shower and he picked me up as he was screaming that i was a stupid idiot, and he body-slammed me again on the tile. he told me that a 5-year-old can hold a camera better than i can. when i hit the tile, i rolled over on the side and started running down the hallway. so i ran into the closet and i slammed the door. >> then jodi reached for a .25-caliber gun she said travis kept on the shelf. >> i grabbed the gun. i ran out of the closet. he was chasing me. i turned around. we were in the middle of the bathroom. i pointed it at him with both of my hands. i thought that would stop him. if someone were pointing a gun at me, i would stop. but he just kept running. he got -- like a linebacker he got kind of low and grabbed my waist. but before he did that

mr. alexander and you left him a message, right? but despite her early efforts at a cover-up, jodi now took the jury through the grisly details of the killing, starting when she dropped travis's new camera. >> at that point travis flipped out again. he stood up and he stepped out of the shower and he picked me up as he was screaming that i was a stupid idiot, and he body-slammed me again on the tile. he told me that a 5-year-old can hold a camera better than i can. when i hit the tile, i rolled over on the side and started running down the hallway. so i ran into the closet and i slammed the door. >> then jodi reached for a .25-caliber gun she said travis kept on the shelf. >> i grabbed the gun. i ran out of the closet. he was chasing me. i turned around. we were in the middle of the bathroom. i pointed it at him with both of my hands. i thought that would stop him. if someone were pointing a gun at me, i would stop. but he just kept running. he got -- like a linebacker he got kind of low and grabbed my waist. but before he did that

mr. alexander met jodi arias at a pre-paid legal convention in las vegas. relationship that ended tragically on june 4th, 2008. and because these aspects of the human condition play such a prominent role in this relationship, it makes sense that the evidence that you've heard starting on january 2nd is a tale of fear, love, sex, lies and dirty little secrets. >> that's kirk ner mi, the lead defense attorney that faced the state's mountain of evidence against jodi arias but also a defendant so out of control that she granted a bombshell television interview even before the jury decides whether she lives or dies. more from fox phoenix anchor tray hayden's exclusive interview with a convicted killer and why, if it was self-defense, jodi never went to the police. >> you're talking about your defense a little bit and you wish they had done this or that. are you happy with your defense? >> i'm grateful for my defense. they've worked very hard. >> 100%? >> not 100%. but they've worked very hard. >> does kirk like you? >> it's not about whether or not you like jodi

mr. alexander inside that house, yes or no! and inside that house, there was a female, right? >> yes. >> w name of the female? >> he didn't tell me her name. >> reporter: there was talk about her possibly crawling through a doggie door that would be behind that gate. it was a long tale between the two of them. but a lot of what happened between travis and jodi happened in this home. this is where travis lived. jodi spent a lot of time here, even when she lived in arizona, she would spend a lot of time here and spend the night. so this home was the center of what happened. when jodi decided to come out and see travis, she drove straight from southern california, straight to here. there is no timeline. she stopped and got gas in pasadena and jumped in her car and drove straight through and parked here in front of the house, walked right up and rang the door bell and we had our crime. >> troy hayden is live from phoenix. troy, the defense is that she was -- it was self-defense and that's why she commit the murder and she is the victim of abuse. the prosecution says this is a prem

mr. alexander: thanks. madam president, being a majority leader is not an easy job whether you're a republican or a democrat and some good things have been happening in the senate recently and i think we should credit both the majority leader and the republican leader with helping to make that happen. over the last few weeks we've seen the water resources bill come to the floor, and the majority leader allowed senator boxer, senator vitter to manage the amendment process, to handle the necessary arguments that always occur about what they will be and we came to a conclusion and passed a bill. a bill that went through committee, went through the floor, a very important bill, really, because it deals with locks, dams, ports in the united states, we want to make sure that as the panama canal is widened and deepened that the ports in the united states are deep enough to receive the bigger ships. and that the locks and the dams are in good enough shape so commerce can move through the company and jobs created. t

mr. alexander suffered excruciating pain. one of those cuts or one of those stab wounds went into his heart. and it is something akin to a heart attack. first he began to lose blood, experienced shortness of breath, and then the chest starts to tighten. so in addition to the initial, if you will, stab wound, when the nerve endings are cut and he felt that pain, he was also beginning to feel the pain of his heart running out of blood as the blood kept seeping out. >> this is intentional, folks. this is supposed to be ugly these details. we'll take you back live now into that hearing. that is jodi's defense attorney. painful details, yes, especially for her family, and also the victims' family. they're all in there. they're having to listen to all of this and go through it all again. they're vital details because this jury needs to decide before they can any farther along in this process if what arias did was, quote, especially cruel. that is the law in this state. they have to decide if those actions were cruel, then they can

mr. alexander, but it also deals with should jodi arias have known or should she have known or did she know that she was causing this? >> shep: jodi arias tearing up and shaking her head no at the prosecutor. remember, she testified she shot him in self-defense and could not recall the stabbings or the throat slitting, but did remember the shooting. if the jury rules the murder was cruel and depraved, then death will still be an option once the trial hits the penalty phase. trace gallagher is live this hour. the prosecutor called the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on the victim here, trace. >> yeah. the medical examiner did the autopsy. what the prosecution is trying to do is kind of paint a picture for the jury of just how painful that travis alexander's death was, saying he had cuts on both the front and the backs of his hands, clearly showing that he was trying to fend off those numerous blows with that knife, that he punctured -- jodi arias punctured his heart vein at some point in time, which caused bleeding and symptoms very much like a heart attack. the theme here is that

mr. alexander regarding you asking them to bring weapons when they came to help you. did that conversation happen? >> absolutely not true. not at all. >> okay. so there was no weapon talk at that time other than -- >> other than he told me that i guess he felt that that showed he was legit. >> okay. and if i'm understanding right, he wanted to be security? >> yes. >> okay. and at that point, did you have any arrangement with them that they would be helping you? >> no. none at all. >> so then what happens next? >> well, i'm still in the room. i'm now being told by stewart that these guys, it doesn't look like they are going to be getting back for a while. stewart said that mcclintock and alexander, you know they said they'll help. and i voiced my concern about alexand alexander. and stewart said you can trust mcclintock, didn't he show you? i said, yeah, why is he so hung up on being my security? he keeps hammering about being my security. he says, o.j., you forget who you are. he can put on his resume that he did security work for you. i told him that made sense to me

mr. alexander felt was this knife, this woman, and this blade coming towards him. >> the jury finds she was extremely cruel. that means she is eligible for the death penalty. the question is, will she get it? and super sized o.j. simpson never testified during his murder trial. now he has finally taken the stand. >> do you think that you were acting legally? >> yes, i did. >> in what you were doing? >> yes, i did. >> and why is that? >> well, it was my stuff. i followed what i thought the law -- >> biggest legal issues of the day. i want to begin with cleveland. ariel castro's daughter, emily, is talking about what she saw inside her father's house. she was interviewed by an investigator in her prison cell where she is serving 25 years for the attempted murder of her own 11-month-old daughter. >> the upstairs was blocked off with a big bass speaker. so i figured that since he lived there alone so long, that he didn't have any need for those -- what, there's four bedrooms upstairs. he didn't have any need for them. so, you know, he just kind of like -- i was like, can i, you know, sleep upst

mr. alexander was very much alive.ry much alive, he was involved in these photographs with a woman. >> reporter: and who was that woman? one jodi arias, now a brunette, posing in pig tails. the photos tell the story of an afternoon of prolonged passion. these were all taken between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. that day. these photos were taken around 5:00. but less than two minutes after travis posed for this haunting picture, the camera captures this. a series of inadvertent photos, caused by a design flaw in the camera. in this one, the camera appears to be falling to the ground, a shot of the bathroom ceiling. and then this one -- a foot alongside travis' bloody body. >> they were able to retrieve these photos. and they somehow, miraculously, don't just tell the story of before and after, but during. and also provides, most importantly, a time frame when the actual crime occurred. >> reporter: and there is another critical clue. a bloody palm print on a wall just down the hall from the bathroom where investigators believe tra

mr. alexander telling you that the gun was unloaded and you believing it was unloaded when you were geting that gun what were you going to do with it if it is unloaded? >> i was thinking of just pointing it at him because i know personally if a gun was pointed at me my first instinct would be to stop and that is what i wanted him to do. >> if he had already told you that it was unloaded why would you believe that he was going to stop if he had previously told you that it was unload. >> it was just a hope because that is my philosophy if i had to look at end of a barrel of a gun i would is stop and i didn't have time to sit and rationalize whether or not he would care whether it was loaded or unloaded or what, i just wanted him to stop. >> and he came after you into the bathroom and then pointed it in your face and your testimony is that you were just pointing the gun at him when came at you, right? >> um, yes. >> you would agree that it requires you to put your trigger on the finger and pull it for it to fire, right? >> that is my understanding, yes? >> well, you were there, right? >> yes.

mr. alexander: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, we have an opportunity to vote today on an important piece of states' rights legislation. at least, that's the way i look at it as a former governor of tennessee. here's what the legislation does. it's called the marketplace fairness act. there are many reasons to support it, but the reason i like it is because it gives governors and legislators the opportunity to decide for themselves whether they can require out-of-state sellers to do the same thing that in-state sellers are required to do, and that is to collect the sales tax already owed. let me say that again. this legislation is states' rights legislation. it allows governors and legislators in maine or tennessee, wherever, illinois, to decide for themselves whether they want to require out-of-state sellers to do the same thing in-state sellers already do, which is to collect the sales tax that's already owed when something is sold. that's it. that's it. now, before we went back to tennessee, some people up here were

mr. alexander telling you that the gun was unloaded and you believing it was unloaded when you were geting that gun what were you going to do with it if it is unloaded? >> i was thinking of just pointing it at him because i know personally if a gun was pointed at me my first instinct would be to stop and that is what i wanted him to do. >> if he had already told you that id why would you believe that he was going to stop if he had previously told you that it was unload. >> it was just a hope because that is my philosophy if i had to look at end of a barrel of a gun i would is stop and i didn't have time to sit and rationalize whether or not he would care whether it was loaded or unloaded or what, i just wanted him to stop. >> and he came after you into the bathroom and then pointed it in your face and your testimony is that you were just pointing the gun at him when came at you, right? >> um, yes. >> you would agree that it requires you to put your trigger on the finger and pull it for it to fire, right? >> that is my understanding, yes? >> well, you were there, right? >> yes. >> and so yo