daker was waseem daker.nt to point out a couple things. >> out three things. >> before he took over his own case decker had been represented by an experienced father and son team michael and jason tread away. they were still advising him and believed the states case was vulnerable. >> they had no case without those hairs. that's why they didn't go forward. they didn't have a case and they knew it. >> there advice? focus on those hairs and don't obsess about lottie. >> this case had to be defended by attacking the sides of the states case. >> waseem daker couldn't seem to let go. his focus from the start was his relationship with the star witness. it was a romance, waseem daker said, intimate in every way. lottie insisted that wasn't true. some of the things he said had to be just really beyond frustrating him a saying you two had a sexual relationship. >> there was no relationship, so there is nothing, you know, more that i can say about that.? did he ever try to kiss you or say he is so in love with you? >>

in news from the paris olympics, waseem abu sal received thunderous applause on sunday as he became thest palestinian boxer to participate in the olympics. during the olympic opening ceremony on friday, abu sal wore a shirt showing children being bombed, in defiance of strict rules against making so-called political statements. after losing his match on sunday, abu sal said, "the olympic games are already a victory for palestine." and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org. this is war, peace, and the presidency. i'm amy goodman. republican presidential nominee donald trump's running mate jd vance has doubled down on his remarks that the democratic party is being led by what he called “childless cat ladies." vance made the original comment on the tucker carlson show in 2021. >> we are effectively run in this country via the democrats, our corporate oligarchs, but a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they've made, so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. kamala harris, pete buttigieg, a

. >> i have no doubt that waseem daker is a cold-blooded killer and justice habits served with his conviction. it doesn't matter what lottie says. this case is about carmen. this case is about nick. >> that's all for this edition of dateline. i'm andrea canning. thank you for watching. >>> good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of morning joe weekend. let's get to some of the conversations you may have missed. >> a lot going on . new cries for the president to step aside and the debate, you can hear it across the country. >> you can hear it across the country and you can hear it across the party. in the gospel of matthew, jesus said religious leaders, every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. lincoln, with the specter of a civil war rising over slavery quoted jesus, a house divided against itself cannot stand. lincoln said, i do not expect the union to be dissolved. i do not expect the house to fall, but i do expect it will cease to be divided. it will become all one thing or all the other. lincoln en