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Up these different scenarios. what would you do if someone poked you? what would you do if someone punched you in the nose? is this relevant at this point? >> hes trying to prove his defense case through this witness. hes arguing that trayvon martin punched george zimmerman in the face. thats the defense position, that he did so unreasonably that george zimmerman simply walked up to him, made a comment, and trayvon martin just burst out with a punch. this is way inappropriate for this witness. >...

Judges are really low to let in this kind of, i guess, reenactment when it almost encroaches on what the jury should be deciding which is what really happened that night. the jury should be the ones listening to the evidence, listening to the witnesses deciding credibility and deciding whose version of events they believe. not through the prism of someone elses reenactment. >> and it could be powerful for the defense because it would basically back up what the defense position as far as george z...

Being intoxicated and in that sense even though i think the evidence should come in i see the prosecutions argument in this case because there is that argument that it may not have affected trayvon martin at all. however, isnt it interesting that if we were talking about a dui case the government almost always says any amount of marijuana means that you are intoxicated but in the case here, theyve flipped their approach. >> but rageful? thats a very different thing. yesterday it all came down to...

Defense attorney says no, zimmerman was screaming and he stops when the gunshot goes off because the threat is eliminated. the problem with that, zimmerman did not think the let it was eliminated. he said he thought trayvon martin was still alive. in fact, thats why he turned him over, spread his arms out. so thats something i can see developed further in close arguments. i think the bottom line is the jurors will say, we cant tell who was screaming so we will just cast that aside. >> doesnt tha...

Exchange? >> i agree, you have a victim or somebody related to the victim, you dont want them to be on the stand for a very long time because it leaves room for things like emotion and the exchange between the two to happen. it can weaken the defense position when you leave somebody on and you ask questions you dont know the answer to. in this case less would have been more. you dont want to inflame the jurors passion. to ask openhanded questions was not necessarily the best idea. rick: with eve...

A tragedy for both families, the defendant and the victims family, this is not an especially heinous atrocious crime in my mind because he was dead almost immediately. and i late to say that in a callous way. i mean it in a medical or scientific way. thats whats important, he wasnt getting superficial stab wounds and, of course, it will be the defense position that the bullet was the first gunshot before the stabbing. and that that killed him immediately. >> i dont know. you know -- >> so that h...

Go along with the death penalty for her not to get the death penalty? >> thats true and as it should be. i dont think shell get the death penalty. they wrestled with a verdict themselves it was not quick, it was not a slam dunk. they didnt even agree on the kind of murder it was they didnt agree it was felony or premeditated. i dont see that 12 people are going to agree so fast. every murder, every homicide is a tragedy for both families, the defendant and the victims family, this is not an espe...

"outfront" tonight. backed into a corner. [ cat meows ] its an awful noise, whenever you hear it. republicans are the cats today. thats the sign of the republicans hissing like an angry cat cornered by the neighborhood dog. why? the presidents order. allowing eviden ining immigrant age of 30 to stay in this country with two year work visas. those workers can be renewed unlimited times. >> this is a temporary stop-gap measure that lets s us focus ou resources wisely while giving a degre...

Overblown as a felony. $2500 necklace, to begin with, generally doesnt get filed as a fe felony. my guess she was on probation at the time but for something unrelated. second of all i dont know this is a case that deserves jail time. especially in light of whats happens in the last couple of weeks. selling of the videotape by the company or the store, the fact that theyre trying to auction off the necklace, most of those things i think fit right into what the defense position is, is that, look, ...

Any chance of that happening? >> i dont think republicans feel like theyre in a position at the moment where they have to support a special prosecutor, they can point to the fact that attorney general jeff sessions did recuse himself from matters involving the trump campaign. but short of another development in the russia controversy, short of some revelation that puts republicans in a defense position, at the moment, they can argue that fbi director comey was unpopular, that republicans and dem...