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Either side of the aisle that dont believe in infrastructure. and i dont know a lot of people on either side of the aisle that dont believe in educating the next generation. >> but theres a deficit problem and we cant afford to spend more money. >> if you look at where we are today, were not where we were in 2011. we have actually worked together. its been a messy process, but weve worked together and reduced the deficit considerably. in the budget control act, we reduced the deficit on ae discr...

You didnt have to justify your vote to anybody. >> you know, ben, one of the interesting things, and i dont understand it, you know, coming from the defense side, and i think jose would back me up on, this there are certain cases you know in jury selection youre not going to be able to win the case. you know because of the dynamics and everything else, and you try that case to get a hung jury. i think when the prosecution had the two white jurors placed back into that jury box and they saw the c...

The jury, i said on this show that the trial was over. there was no way -- its a very rare person who can hold out in a criminal case when everybody else is up against you. when you have the racial composition that was in this case, five to one, white to hispanic or puerto rican, and you combine that with what was one of the most abysmal prosecutorial presentations ive ever seen, i think it was a no-brainer that it was going to come out this way. i would tell or ask ben, you know, when your clie...

Written. >> so mark, what do you make of the fact that this one juror, who initially voted guilty for second degree murder, not manslaughter, but the second degree murder charge, the one holdout was the only minority on this six-woman panel. >> i think thats completely to be expected and exactly why when we saw the racial composition of the jury, i said on this show that the trial was over. there was no way -- its a very rare person who can hold out in a criminal case when everybody else is up a...

The trial was over. there is no way -- its a very rare person who can hold out in a criminal case when there -- when everybody else is up against you. when you have the racial composition that was in this case, 5-1, white to hispanic or puerto rican and combine that with the pres sentations i seen it was going to come out this way. i would ask -- i would tell or ask ben, you know, when your clients watch this, my experiences, this is one of the reasons that when you try a case, win or lose you n...

Would have did had that been their child. one vote, the prosecutors could have said, your vote is your vote, you said you had the evidence there. you didnt have to be persuaded. you didnt have to justify your vote to anybody. >> you know, ben, one of the interesting things, and i dont understand it, you know, coming from the defense side, and i think jose would back me up on, this there are certain cases you know in jury selection youre not going to be able to win the case. you know because of t...

Not going to be able to win the case. you know because of the dynamics and everything else, and you try that case to get a hung jury. i think when the prosecution had the two white jurors placed back into that jury box and they saw what the composition was of this case, if they really wanted to win it, they should have tried this case to hang it so they would have had another chance at a retrail. its yet another, i think, black mark, if you will on the prosecution in this case. i cant say enough...

Do we know anything more about the victims? >> reporter: unfortunately, we dont know anything about the victps. police have remained very quiet in relation to that. as i say, some of the family member s approached us yesterda. they handed out the flyers. a girl disappeared she is 18 years old. and they obviously have been waiting from authorities. we understand that the bodies of these victims were very badly wrapped in plastic. so the composition of these bodies not so good. it is going to take...

Special prosecute are himself did not participate in trying the case, to the composition of the jury, to the way in which the case was tried all the way to the verdict strikes people as just mountains of evidence -- >> let me ask this. professor, the attorney general is looking at this as a potential civil rights violation against george zimmerman. i heard the president, to me, sort of lower expectations. >> exactly. >> on what basis? >> the reality is that this is not a federal issue. its a sta...

Liberal republicans. basically new england is a blue region and they are dominated by the rise of the evangelical south. is that part of the composition, they changed? >> i think it started way before the 19d 80 convention. my parents were precinct committee people in our suburb outside of seattle, thats how we did it. people would come in -- ive talked to my mom about this many times. people would come in with this issue only on their mind. as soon as this issue was off the table, they left, th...