the reason alabama had jurisdiction is he wanted to get the insurance before he even left alabama. the truth of that was really lacking. >> he didn't let it in. >> the group before the jury as a matter of law allowed it to because the plotting of dave watson to get the insurance there was not even proof he was the beneficiary of the policy. there was proof that the beneficiary was actually tina thomas's moms. her mom. the bride's mom not her husband. the insurance policy motive the only thing that happened in alabama the plot in its own mind to kill her and collect the insurance. once you don't have the insurance policy you don't have that. >> the 11 are included. >> it could be manslaughter or homicide. >> when he was interviewed the judge said based on your conjecture he spoke to the issue of the crime itself not only the insurance policy but he said it was pure spec ration and he had the duty of a judge if there's no legally sufficient evidence supporting that charge to dismiss it. that's what he did. >> lesser included they should have always brought that to the jury. wouldn't h

this is a statue of fred chutalesworth, who was the head of the alabama christian rights movement and who prout king to town and who nicknamed the movement project "c ""for confronttation, and he just died about a week or ten days ago. he was in his 80s. he lived a long life. i want you to read this. the most amazing thing to me about birmingham today is the way it has embraced its civil rights history. so all over the city there are markers about the children's march, the marches to city hall, the marches to downtown, to the stores, and they celebrate the civil rights history. so you remember the white lawyer in "eyes on the prize" who was talking about having been on the phone with a.g. gaston at a certain point. remember his name? david vann. all right. so what you can't see, but if you look really closely, this is david vann, birmingham mayor, 1975 to 1979. he later became mayor of the city. when that film was made, he was nowhere near being mayor because the film was made in the late '80s. what do you think of that quote? kind of cool, huh? a white southern lawyer saying that the

the forced vaginal probe ultrasound is not just a virginia story. it's also an alabamand pennsylvania story where the legislature is considering an ultrasound bill that because of how specific the requirements are around images and sound, would also pretty much mandate vaginal probes by order of the state. the pennsylvania bill also mandates that the doctor or technician performing the state mandated ultrasound position the screen so that it in the woman's sight line during the procedure. it's mandated by law that it be pointed at your face. but hey ladies, according to the law you're not required to view the screen. so, to be clear the state of pennsylvania would in this case by law mandate a vaginal probe ultrasound, and the state of pennsylvania would mandate that the results of the ultrasound be pointed at your face but the state of pennsylvania will stop just shy of using that clockwork orange machine to prop your eyelids open and force you to regard the ultrasound. it should be noted that pennsylvania is the state where over the ten years before 2011 there were 19

he voted the city of alabama to surrender its records to the u.s. department of justice. he required alabama to a portion state legislative district to adhere to the one man, one vote principal. >> he mandated in alabama the first statewide desegregation of public schools. i can continue through a list here of the contributions that this one judge courageously did. it's quite clear to me that president eisenhower, with the good counsel in particular of his attorney general had no surprises in mind when he made his appointments. he knew the positions of these individuals and with whom he entrusted these powers. bill moyer described judge johnson and said that he altered forever the face of the south. burke marshall, a lot of the professors served with distinction and the kennedy justice department said that these four judges, dr. specht mentioned them including judge johnson had made as much of an imprint on american society and american law as any four judges below the supreme court had ever done in history. so if you look at these kinds of

the trial starts today in alabama. at&t customers, did you get a text today? if you have unlimited data plans you may be surprised by the new data limit. it is all ahead unless breaking news changes everything. first from fox at 3:00 at new york city it is too especially to tell if prescription drugs played a part in whitney houston from a los angeles county coroner who said the investigators not rule on the cause of debt until they get the toxicology results. what we know is that the police say on saturday afternoon a member of her personal staff found the singer's body in a bathtub of her suite at the hilton hotel. she was underwater, unconscious. moments ago the police department spokesman gave details. >> first aid and cpr measures were performed in an attempt to revise her but were unsuccessful and approximately 3:55 p.m., whitney houston was pronounced dead at the beverly hills hilton. >> she was here for the pregrammys party and the days before she died she was acting strange and appeared out of it. the "los angeles times" reports that in the days up to

the bill. that was sunday morning. alabama'sernor hasn't heard about the forced vaginal probe bill, thank you very much. sunday morning. on sunday night, that same night, according to the montgomery advertiser, the sponsor of the bill in the legislature releases a statement backing off saying he plans to change the will so women can choose what kind of state-mandated probing they get so it doesn't have to be a vaginal probe. adding he had always intended to give women the right to choose the means by which she is to be forcibly probed by the state. he didn't mean to specifically require vaginal probe ultrasounds. actually, in true fact, he totally meant to require vaginal probe ultrasounds. he totally meant that specifically and i know this because the bill spells it out. the bill spells out the vaginal probe requirement, literally the word advantage i, is in the bill. requires that women before getting an abortion have an ultrasound "using either a vaginal transducer or abdominal, whichever would display more clearly. that what

this time it's happening in the state of alabama. ate republican lawmakers have introduced their own mandatory ultrasound bill. senate bill 12 would require, require, a physician to perform an ultrasound provide verbal explanation of the ultrasound and display the images to the pregnant woman before performing an abortion. the legislation passed committee last week in alabama, the committee chair, state senator greg reed thinks it's a good bill. he also happens to be an executive at preferred medical sis systems systems, a company that sells ultrasound equipment. physicians could face up to 10 years in prison and $15,000 fine if they don't administer the medically unnecessary ultrasound first. the physician could also require a woman to under go an invasive internal ultrasound instead of external one. that part of the bill prompted the most public outrage. late today, the bill's sponsor republican state senator clay scofield says he will amend the legislation. >> the portion that i want to clarify that i think, that people say this is

in alabama, the civil rights movement made alabama a better place. i said if you don't believe, imagine what would happen if the university of alabama had to get rid of all of its african-american football players. see, you got to speak to people where they are. i've seen some of these people at thee reenactments. i know who they are. they also got season tickets to these football games. man what would happen if you got rid of all the basketball players. and they had cam newton down there. he's now in carolina. the heisman trophy winner down there. we have to look at this a lot of different ways. a lot of ways to look at that time is a humorous way which is the civil war had to take place before you could get the civil rights movement. the sift right movement was based on the 14th amendment. if you don't have the aemt p amendment, there's no martin luther king and no -- >> the football players at alabama did not write alabama's immigration law. and that immigration law is potentially a violation of that 14th amendment. as long as we keep that in mind,

, and if that is the case, then alabama would have jurisdiction. >> the exhaustive testing they did in australia, the trial they held, even their own witnesses who say it appeared he was embracing her and trying to help her, let's just disregard that. it's ridiculous. >> it's not redick loss. the thing it's premeditated murder, and here we are in this case -- the anytime you can take a jury and put enemy in their minds back to the scene of where an incident occurred, and help them see for themselves what happened, it's really key, and in this case we're talking about australia, talking about diving, something that people are not necessarily familiar with. so it's important and should be allowed. >> shepard: mass protests today outside a u.s.-run air base in afghan after word that international troops apparently inned a vert tently burned copies of the koran. nato officials have apologized profuelsly. they say they're investigating the improper supposal -- disposal of the religious books and say what happened was not intentional in any way. but tho

by law, oversight for the storm shelter installation belongs to the alabama manufacturered housing commission never card about enforcing the rules -- it never cared about enforcing the rules. now it wants all builders and installers to follow its rules and pay for the appropriate permit. art falkener is the state director of the emergency managen't and administers the grant to build shelters and says his hands are tied. >> there is bureaucracy in the program. that is what we're trying to eliminate. >> the manufacturered housing commission whose main job is regulate instruction of modular homes says it's just looking after public safety. but the standard it enforces for tornado shelters are actually lower than the fema specs these are built to. >> does it make any sense? >> what makes sense and what i'm required by law to do sometimes are two different things. >> state lawmakers have introduced legislation to streamline the process. take the commission out of it and hand all authorities for shelter to emergency management. dekalb county has to start the bidding process for the shelters all ove

what was the crime committed in alabama. ly crime they could come up with was that this was a conspiracy that he had, gabe watson had to get the insurance money. that was a plot. he was going to get her insurance money and the insurance policy was taken out in alabama so he hatched this plot soon after her wedding, maybe before the wedding. he had plot to kill her for the insurance money. then he traveled to australia where he rips off her mask and drowns her. the problem is the presentation of the insurance motive, the insurance money motive was very weak in the prosecution's case. they didn't nail down, again to use nail, they didn't nail down that he had a financial motive to kill her because there was some question about who the beneficiary of her life insurance would be. >> bill: did he get any money from the life insurance policy. >> the problem is the only beneficiary was tina watson's father not gabe watson her husband. the financial motive aspect of the case although i thought him on the murder or manslaughter becaus

bishop of the alabama west florida conference of the methodist church. another methodist bishop. this must be the catholic bishop and the catholic bishop as well. here we have the presbyterians. here we have someone who is a pastor of birmingham. we'll see a slide of it in a little bit. also, we have a rabbi, right? bet you didn't know there was a jewish temple. there were enough jews to have a temple. one rabbi in town signs onto exactly the same letter. one of these fellows, because king mentioned it in the letter, it's i don't know whether it's -- i think it must be bishop carpenter desegregated a catholic college nearby. these are the racial moderates. these are people that actually took brave stances with their own denominations and their own people in favor of some movement on civil rights. let's look at their attitude. we don't have a long time to do this but it's not a long letter. this was in the sunday paper. so this may help us understand some of what's in the letter. we are confronted bay series of demonstrations directed and led in part by outsiders. it's a reason ki

i said, you know, in alabama, the civil rights movement made alabama a better place. i said if you don't believe me, just imagine what would happen if the university of alabama had to get rid of all of its african-american football players. so you've got to speak to people where they are. i have seen some of these people at these re-enactments. so i know who they are. they also have season tickets to these football games. milli imagine what would happen if you got rid of all of the basketball players in and they had cam newton down there now. the heisman trophy winner down there. so you have to look at this a lot of different ways. one of the ways to look at it is a simple, somewhat humorous way, and that is that the civil war had to take place before you can get to the civil rights movement. and that was based on the 14th amendment, which was passed after the civil war. if you don't have the amendment, there's no martin luther king. >> but the football players at alabama did not write alabama's immigration law. and that immigration law is potentially an egregious viol

these grants are spiking under the alabama administration and really big grants begin out just before cap and trade and just before dodd-frank and health care. you say it is time to ban it altogether. >> we have to find a way to flatten the pikes and make it more transparent before the three major pieces of legislation. and democrat get three or five million grants to their district. i know there is a tradition of this. but it is a bad tradition and when we are running deficits, it has to stop. >> it has spiked recently. rich talked about 3 mill before obama care. they got federal grants was 145 million and they went for obama care. >> it was all a coincidence. >> i whand rich is saying and there is no way to pressure the grants. the heritage foundation report was done by looking at when the grants happened and the legislation that was being passed. >> you don't think it is coincidence don't you, mike? >> no way to measure. only way to solve it, david, lower all overall government spending relative to the gdp. you will not be able to stop >> vict toria. >> mike, i don't think of you a

then on the 13th, alabama with 50 and mississippi with 40. we have oklahoma on the 6th. question is, in the southern states, does he do well. he is getting close to the edge. he ran third in nevada. he has been out of gas essentially since south carolina he has to get in a more profound way. >> greta: he'll be here tomorrow night. thank you. >> straight ahead, unthinkable, hanging him because of his religion for simply being a christian pastor. and man accused of his wife on honeymoon. and seinfeld character, the problem is, he was misquoted and jason alexander has something to say about that. you have to hear it. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. until the end of the quarter to think about your money... ♪ ...that right now, you want to know where you are, and where you'd like to be. we know you'd like to see the same information your advisor does so you can get a deeper understanding of what's go

an enormous army history collection, but also smaller libraries, state historical associations, the alabama department of archives and history, the vermont historical society, jackson county historical society in independence, missouri. and again, the point was i really didn't want to read more about u.s. grant. i wanted to read about the grunt, and i wanted the soldiers to say, i look at the flag and i think of my farm. or i think of my wife or my mother. and they just -- they didn't cooperate. they wouldn't do what i wanted them to do and i was really frustrated with them for that reason. >> host: were few finding a similar theme in. >> guest: two things. i knew the union and confederate differences. i was less interested in those than -- and i found very little of the east-west difference that i was looking for. there were americaners who thought people from the east were prissy, and you can hear that conversation today on the metro. that was not that surprising. they weren't talking about what i wanted them to. they wouldn't stop talking about about slavery and that's what way were not

bishop of the alabama west florida conference of the methodist church. another methodist church. here's a bishop of the episcopal diocese so this must be the catholic bishop and this must be the catholic bishop, as well. >> and here we've got the presbyterians and here we've got someone who is a pastor in the first baptist church of birmingham, which i think we'll see a slide of in a little bit. and, also, we've got a rabbi, right? i bet you didn't know there was a jewish temple in birmingham, alabama. but there are enough jews to have a temple, and the one rabbi in town, you can bet it was the only rabbi in town, signs on to exactly the same letter. one of these fellows, because king even mentions it in the letter, it's -- i don't know whether it's -- i think it must be bishop carpenter, has already desegregated a catholic college in town. or very nearby. so these are the racial moderates. these are people they'll have actually in some ways taken brave stances with their own denominations with their own people in favor of some movement on civil rights. and yet, let's look at the

not only was it a historic church but it was part of the alabama christian movement for human rights and it was one of the churches where the movement had mass meetings. and then of course as you know on september 15, 1963, two weeks after the march on washington in late august, basically klan connected people bombed the church during a sunday school was starting and killed four little girls by blowing up one corner of the church. birmingham fire department you see that again. you see bodies being taken out by african-american church members. there's no formal memorial. this is the corner of the church where it happened. but someone had left a wreath there at the time we were there. people do that from time to time and then they take pictures. they give tours of the building, but there's no actual marker. so this movement, this movement in birmingham in 1963 at the absolute center of the civil rights movement, at the absolute center of martin luther king's career and it produced the most extraordinary and elaborated document about nonviolent direct action by the premier apostle of non

so from florida's perspective, we watched very closely the alabama and georgia model, and it has given us a real world/realtime example of what happens when you get these state-based policies wrong, and it rein forces the need to get it right and get the rabbit not running 50 different directions. >> we heard from governor maldonado, and he said it passionate passionately, and i think we have to hear this again. he said the latinos in california, which are a great percentage of latinos in this country, do not want amnesty. and i think we have to listen to that. another thing that i don't think we do that well is latinos do not talk about border security. i'm an american, i'm an american hispanic. i want a strong border. and i don't think we do enough -- i want to ask, are we doing a good enough job about the community talking about immigration reform instead of listening to these politicians who aren't talking about it at all? >> i think you're absolutely right, and you bring up a really good point. i don't know what amnesty is, because any time that someone has proposed a solution tha

>>shepard: and now the limit girl run to death. police in alabamaa nine-year-old is dead because her grandmother and her step mother forced her to run for three hours punishment for eating candy bars. here is the picture of the little girl. police say she suffered from severe dehydration, had a seizure and died days later. now the step mom and the grandmother are facing murder charges. and now to the legal panel we go. you prosecute step mother and a grandmother for this? >>guest: absolutely. this, i never did child abuse cases but this is, when you hear of cases like this, it shocks you. we are talking about the actions they did, a gross deviation from the standard of care. that's murder in the second degree. should they be lotted if absolutely. even if you don't think a child will die when you put them in harm's way, the people you supposed to be taking care of, you put them if harm's way and your actions cause death you should be prosecuted. >>shepard: look at her. randy? >>randy: this tests a defense lawyer and it is not always about winning ver

the early 20th century. and he would have been very happy for me to undertake a study of alabama during the reconstruction. and i began outlining what i might do with that. but at the same time, two other things were going on. one was of course the sit ins in greensboro, north carolina, starting in 1960. the spillover in baltimore, which was a border state city at the time. the schools had been integrated. under the leadership of david hackett fisher's father, who was the superintendent of the baltimore school system. but many other facilities in baltimore and in other parts of maryland were still segregated. this still was the jim crow era, although it was the end of the jim crow era. and of course the civil rights movement had generated a lot of hostility and violence in the south, especially in 1961 during the freedom riders, going through alabama and mississippi. and i began to think twice about whether i wanted to go down and spend six months or a year in alabama county courthouses in the state archives driving around the state with a car with a northern license plate during those year. but more impor

the alabama people against a littered state got $75,000. but then we come to some that i'm very confused. the bible baptist church got $200,000. why would epa give money to a baptist bible church? for $200,000? >> why not, sir? >> okay. how about cam kumbaya? your administration gave $20,280. can you tell me what that's a about? >> i'm happy to get you information on the small community grants. >> what's the environmental core mission of camp kumbaya? >> i don't personally know camp kumbaya, i have never been there. but i'm happy to get you information. >> how about art from scrap? >> art from scrap? >> art from scrap. you gave $18,000 to art from scrap. >> yes, sir. >> not you personally. but -- >> thank you. >> do you know what the nonprofit budget is for the epa? >> we give several grant programs. i am guessing but it it is simply an uneducated guess, but many of these are under the community -- >> is it hundreds of millions, tens of millions? >> it's more than millions. it's probably several million because the care grant program in the

there were issues of seating, the alabama delegation. there were issues of vietnam that were going on there. i had always been someone opposed to the vietnam war since i generally had been identified as a liberal and a peace person over the years. and it was tough. there was such contention going on and difficult times, and it went on and on and on. and it was not easy and then the chairman, since it was going on so long and it was so difficult, he disappeared. so i ended up having to chair it for all of those 14 hours at one time. it was really exciting to me to go to washington. my dad fortunately was still alive. he came to washington to watch me be sworn in. i had just been married. that's 38 years ago. and it was really beyond belief that all of a sudden i could find myself in the capital, in washington, d.c., in this position, and no one really knew, just as they didn't know how to treat me in the assembly because they weren't aware so much of women. but there was one african-american woman there who was shirley chisolm ,and barbara