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>> good evening. tonight, whats next for ukraine? the ukrainian people in the war for their survival? its turned into a confrontation between the world s two largest nuclear powers. a year ago tonight, early morning local time, russian forces began rolling into ukraine for what the kremlin expected would be a quick and easy takeover of the country. what they unleashed instead was the largest land conflict in europe since the second world war, and some of the widespread killing of non c...

Because, actually, it is indefensible. defense 101, youve got to acknowledge that which you cannot deny and that you know can be proven. so he had to come in and say that he was there because, the one thing that he has, any witness, any juror looks for in a defense attorney and certainly the client is you have that level of credibility. once you lose, it it is very difficult to come back from it. had he denied that that was him, when the rest of us know that it was, he wouldve lost all of that. ...

Why wouldnt he go to trial with testimony like that? >> another reason you have to look at his credibility, hes cut a deal, the deal has not been disclosed. we know he is just trying to save his own hide, that witness has had his credibility destroyed. >> julie: he basically said he helped bury a body, how do you not get a trial? what kind of deal do you strike with somebody who admitted to burying a body after somebody killed an innocent young girl? how does a judge make a deal like that? >> he...

Guilty but according to the defense evidence doesnt add up. listen. >> when you dig down deep into what the government says and what the facts really are you will see their story is absolutely full of holes. what they are wanting you to do is ignore all the many mysteries and holes they have left in their story. >> julie: joining us now, former federal prosecutor and legal analyst. thank you for coming on, the defenses strongest argument here, a lack of evidence. no dna, no blood, no hair, no fi...

And kidnapping and killing an innocent young woman you need to talk to a psychopathic person engaged in the crime. thats what you have. the prosecution doesnt pick these people, adams did when he committed the crime and confessed. >> this all comes down to credibility. when you have jailhouse snitch is trying to get better food, better accommodations, whatever it is, they want better of him in jail, its a toddler trying to get candy. you cant believe a single thing they say. fred knows a lot abo...

The jury, everybody in this room has a job. the prosecutions job is to present the evidence, your job is to examine the evidence and listen to the law and their job is to look everywhere else within the courtroom. dont let them doing your job stop you from you doing your jo job. there is sufficient evidence to convict beyond a reasonable doubt and you need to return the only verdict possible. >> julie: if you are the defense you want to break down the witnesses because thats what its going to co...

Of the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tufts university, retired admiral james stavridis, nbcs chief international security and diplomacy analyst. a lot of mixed signals, but basically kim jong-un saying maybe ill wait on firing missiles toward guam, but only if the yankee, as he refers to the u.s., cancels its firepower, basically cancels the military exercises coming up and also pulls back on the missile defense. thats not going to happen. >> it is absolutely not going to happen. nor s...

Theres no question there was a fight. at the end of the day, weve heard testimony in this case also that whoever was on top was holding down the arms of george zimmerman with his legs, right, and holding the nose and mouth, and probably even most importantly we heard the testimony of mr. good who does not talk about the beating that george alleges that he took, right? and at the end of the day we do not believe that george zimmerman had to pull out a gun and shoot trayvon martin in the heart. bu...

Of terrace, british columbia. so in this trail, the defense is trying to create a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury and the big question tonight is if george zimmerman will take the stand. should he? with me again martin savidge from sanford and joining us mark lamont hill. mark, lets begin with you. let me talk about something weve spoken about before, that being race. you know, trayvon martins family maintains this is not a case about race. would you say this trial is a representatio...

Resting the case this afternoon, the state calls this associate medical examiner. i talked to a number of attorneys today. they called this mans testimony bad, wishy washy, rigid. what did you make of this? >> reporter: he was all over the map. hes the assistant medical adviser here on this particular case. he was the one who actually did the autopsy on 17-year-old trayvon martin. now, he did make a number of points. one of them was fairly dramatic, especially when he talked about the fact that ...