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Bob caostas will hurricane katrina to his olympic hosting duty as tonight. first time costas didnt anchor the primetime coverage of the olympics since 1988. lets talk about it. doctor, great to see you. >> good to see you too. >> of course, weve all dealt with pink eye in one way or another throughout our lives but poor bob costas he seems to have a particularly nasty case of it. did it surprise you or surprise anyone how many days off he was forced to take because of it? >> no, it really doesnt...

Started the fight. >> right. >> you approach me. and i take up my gun. i shoot you, and i feel threatened. i mean, thats my story afterwards. thats my story, and im sticking to it. there is something wrong with that. >> and sticking to the story, both the zimmer case, which as you said stand your ground was part of the summations and the defense, and now this case, two very high profile cases, no conviction in either, you have a case of marissa alexander, same county as this case that we are dea...

The case wound up being seen as a metaphor for miscarriage of justice, blacks not receiving the same justice that whites do, their lives not mattering as much. this case became a metaphor for that, your face became the face of this guy gets away with killing a black kid. what do you do? >> hope im dispelling those, if it takes one person at a time, to to dispel that, thats what ill do. >> i dont think -- the idea this is a guy with an agenda who worked the system, thats not what he is. he is rea...

Situations. do you find yourself haunted by memories of that night? >> no. >> reporter: because? >> i dont know. >> reporter: george zimmerman is not haunted by taking a mans life. perhaps more surprising, zimmerman thought his life would stay the same. the feeling was that people will accept this. im going to go through the trial, it is what it is, the outcome will be accepted, and then i move on. thats what you though would happen? >> i was hoping for that, yes. >> reporter: and when did you r...

Waivers. >> thats why i say here, because hes got a history of doing this. hes been bitten nine times before. they werent creating the situation. theyre just filming him doing what he does. playing with venomous snakes, which is why i think theyre not going to have a case against the network. >> and remember also, some of these shows filming people doing an illegal activity, whether it be intervention or drug addiction. this -- kentucky was actually it the first state to outlaw snake handling, a...

>> all right. ken, your reaction to the verdict. >> well, justice was not completely served here. we have a stand your ground law in florida which trips up juries. it creates violence out on the streets. it places our young men and women in danger. and when it comes time for justice at a courtroom and a trial, the stand your ground law is inserted into the law, and it makes it more difficult for juries to understand how to apply this law and how to get to justice. when the evidence is as clear a...

And stereotypes and frankly prejudice that this man possessed. and dwloong that was clearly set forth in the trial. but it was sort of one of those underlying issues. weve got to figure out how we address these issues as prosecutors, because i know that on the one hand, its a very polarizing issue for the jury. you sort of insert that and for some juries, they dont believe that racism is still an issue. or they dont want to be confronted with it and have to address it. so prosecutors sort of dan...

That the defendant is presumed innocent. but you should not have laws that are so confusing that when the jury goes back into the jury room and tries to apply the law to the evidence, youre going to have a lot of misinterpretation. youre going to have a lot of confusion. and confusion leads to reasonable doubt. so its a problem for the state of florida. if you want to enforce the laws, you want to get rid of this law. >> now, lisa, you had talked about earlier this law with me. you had talked ab...

Thinking or why theyre thinking it. all i know is that theyre doing it. i dont know what agenda they have. >> the case is over but the judgment continues. george zimmerman may have won his freedom but hell probably never be truly free. >> i have a lot of people say they guarantee theyre going to kill me and ill never be a free man. ive realized they dont know me. a lot of people who sit down with me and my family, they get a different perspective on me. >> when youre somebody and people look at ...

The same justice that whites do. their lives not mattering as much. this case became a metaphor, an example from that. your face became the face of this is the guy who gets away with killing a black kid. what do you do with that? >> hope that im dispelling those. if it takes one person a day at a time, to help them realize that thats not what this case was about. then thats what ill do. >> just fascinate to go hear him speaking. this long after the case. and, of course, on the heels of the dunn ...