the rope which bound walter scott did not match rope in the williams' garage. es saw jim williams pouring concrete over the cistern and building the flower box a few weeks after walter's disappearance in 20-degree weather during a snowstorm. no one knows how walter scott's car found its way to the airport. or how williams got home after his wife's accident. jim williams said he was innocent and took the stand in his own defense. for the first time, he revealed he had seen walter on the night he disappeared. >> i went on into ken's office -- auto supply and come out. and i seen walter standing over there with some buy, a big guy. big black coat and a black hat, you know. they were talking while the guy was in the coat got in a cadillac, a black cadillac. and walter pulled up right behind him. >> but williams had no explanation for how walter's body mysteriously found its way into the cistern. jim williams was convicted of two counts of capital murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. with only circumstantial evidence against joanne williams, her

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i changed my name to the character of sir walter scott's "lady in the lake."frederick douglass. to become independent, i added an additional s on the end. [laughter] when i wrote the book, i had to flee to england, where i stated 22 months -- stayed 22 months. i spoke so well and elegantly there that they treated me as a diplomat. the anti-slavery society in england about my freedom. -- bought my freedom. i returned to the united states officially a free man. are you with me? let me try again. are you with me? >> yetah. >> i settled in rochester, new york and started a newspaper called "the north star." truth is of no color. god is the head of a soul. -- us all. and we are all brother. -- brethern. when the war broke out with the north and the south, i predicted that this form would not before entirely -- be fought entirely by white men. every months experience during these early years has confirmed -- month's experience during these years has confirmed this opinion, war carried out for the perpetual enslavement of black men called loudly colored men do hope s

walter of the cook political report. frontrunnerr-itis, i coined that. >> i like that! >> ifill: the two governors i want to focus on are two that have been making interesting moves. scott. >> right. last time we talked, we talked about how he had surged into a narrow lead in iowa. the polls in new hampshire show he's gone from basically zero nobody knew who he was in new hampshire, to at least an>3Ñ top candidate in the state. >> ifill: because of name recognition. >> absolutely.6"kxq people know who he is. he fills a niche for republicans. they're looking for someone new different, shiny, and he is not offensive to any one of the different groups in the republican coalition. there's not one group 9 well he's not going to be good on our issues. so he's pulling ,w filling the hopes of a lot of republicans. they still want to check him out but he's living up to in some ways the desire for republicans for somebody different. >> ifill: bobby jindal is another governor from another state. what niche does he fill? >> i think he's in the cultural warrior lane. what he's doing now is he's talking about islam and sort of a cultural warrior war on terrorism, he talks about it al