With hopes of swaying the jury disappearing with each prosecution witness, defense attorney Ted Wells again blistered NBC's Tim Russert today in a second day of cross examination. Wells made every attempt to shake the "Meet the Press" host's testimony, testimony that directly contradicted that of defense witness I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Though Libby was the one to call Russert, the attorney for Libby sought to discredit the newsman by virtue of Russert's inability to remember the specific date of the conversation as well as the fact that Russert could not produce any notes related to the phone call. Wells also sought to portray Russert as gleeful that Libby was indicted for the perjury charge.

Libby has insisted that he first learned of Valerie Plame Wilson roles in the CIA from that conversation with Russert. The NBC host insisted that the two did not talk about Wilson and that Russert did not know that Wilson worked at the CIA until a later newspaper column revealed that information.

The extremely cross, cross examination of Russert came after five prior government witnesses and two reporters revealed that they had discussions with Libby about Plame prior to the date of the conversation with Russert.

Attacking Russert's credibility was the last gasp for attorney Wells who has sought to discredit each of the prosecution witnesses, all of whom indicate that Libby had to be lying when he stated to a grand jury that he first heard about Plame from the Russert conversation.

Unfortunately for the defense, Russert proved equal to the task according to courtroom witnesses. The defense will begin its case on Monday.