Liveblogging as of 11:58PM EST: “When you’ve got the press secretary to the President speaking on behalf of Libby,” notes Judge Walton, “That, it seems to me, would undermine the suggestion that there was in fact this effort to sacrifice Mr. Libby to protect Mr. Rove.” The prosecution says that the government has claimed Libby’s motive in lying was his fear of losing his job. Defense says no — he simply did not want to be scapegoated and sacrificed to save Rove. “Going to the Vice President was the act of an innocent man,” says defense attorney Ted Wells.

Liveblogging as of 10:30AM EST: It appears likely that Tim Russert of NBC News will be Fitzgerald’s final witness. But before that, Fitzgerald seems intent on letting the jury — and the rest of us — hear how Libby himself described the affair before the grand jury.