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Judge asked zimmerman directly if he wanted to testify. >> mr. zimmerman, like i said before, youre aware that during this trial you have the absolute right to remain silent. you do not have to say anything, do anything, or prove anything. is that correct? >> yes, your honor. >> and you have the right to testify if you want to. do you understand that? >> yes, your honor. >> and ive given you an opportunity to discuss with your attorneys whether or not you want to testify in this case and you hav...

Thats definitive before i had a chance to double-check with the experts, the guys who know the law. >> thats the thing thats been so unusual about this. frankly, my headline for this is unnecessary roughness. this all could have been handled in a much more elegant way for the judge to simply inquire whether or not hes made his final decision about whether hes going to testify. because it impacts scheduling. it impacts obviously making the record. she could have been much kinder about it. obvious...

Right to testify. its all on the record. on to the next. george zimmerman seemed confused about whether he was making this decision or not. he needed more time. how much more time? he really couldnt say. don west tried to jump in and object to the judges questions. she overruled these objections to her questions, which is, you know, highly unusual in the courtroom to object what the judge is saying. so now theyre going to straighten it all out after this recess. >> lisa, lets see that moment rea...

>> you have the absolute right to remain silent. you do not have to say anything, do anything, or prove anything. is that correct? >> yes, your honor. >> and you also have the right to testify if you want to. do you understand that? >> yes, your honor. >> and ive given you an opportunity to discuss with your attorneys whether or not you want to testify in this case, and you have indicated that you have had those discussions. >> yes, your honor. >> and have you made a decision, sir, as to whether...

Use it as evidence and they could use it as a demonstration. i dont know what that will mean to the jury. it was a bit open to interpretation in terms of what he was going to be showing on the actual animation itself. >> and the judge is right now talking to george zimmerman about his right to testify. lets listen in. >> talk to your attorneys about whether or not you want to testify in this case? do you need some more time to talk to your attorneys about that? >> no, your honor. >> okay. and if...

They were lawyered up and afraid to say anything or did worry somebody in the campaign had some contact with those people in the irs so theyd better be careful what they say. the only reason for screwing up was they screwed up. they didnt act. >> it might have been out of abundance of caution. >> what were they afraid of? >> it was a political error. they underestimated the potency of this story. while they were answering questions on benghazi and the department of justice investigation and fish...

Heads are going to roll. theres only two reasons why they didnt do that. they were lawyered up and afraid to say anything or did worry somebody in the campaign had some contact with those people in the irs so theyd better be careful what they say. the only reason for screwing up was they screwed up. they didnt act. >> it might have been out of abundance of caution. >> what were they afraid of? >> it was a political error. they underestimated the potency of this story. while they were answering q...

Of national security. in democracy we cannot have any room for secret laws that are controlled and manipulated and interpreted by the executive. the public has the right to know what the government limits are in terms of its own surveillance. they also have the absolute right to know what those safeguards are to protect individual privacy. in a surveillance state, we simply create more suspect individuals. >> the problem as youve heard from many of my eminent contributors tonight, people believe...

Parallels in this case now. >> theyre just 12 years ago, very similar. let me be crystal clear, the government cannot handle the truth. i was at the very nation beginning of the secret surveillance state. the government is lying. they actually violated the constitution willfully and deliberately in the greatest of secrecy ostensibly for the sake of national security. in democracy we cannot have any room for secret laws that are controlled and manipulated and interpreted by the executive. the pub...

Defiant, the resistance path or to pick someone slightly more moderate or a lot more moderate, someone like the cleric who is running whos a protege of ayatollah who was not allowed to run in this election partly because of his support for the green movement back in 2009. >> this is the sort of pragmatic wing of the iranian regime. very much part of the regime, pragmatic, consider rupt in the sense of having a lot of business dealings but not the hard liners. >> yes not the hard line, absolute r...