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To get power. if youre an israeli voter, why should you believe anything bennett sayshe? just broke his word blatantly. >> i think the two men got together. they looked each other in the eye. they realized they could trust each other. while there were political foes for many years, they had to put both of them, had to put the interest of the state of israel out of their own personal interest. . that is the definition of leadership. >> lets talk about some of the other things, george that, bennet...

Eye. they realized they could trust each other. while there were political foes for many years, they had to put both of them, had to put the interest of the state of israel out of their own personal interest. that is the definition of leadership. >> lets talk about some of the other things, george that, bennett has said in the past. you reportedly said to the national security advisors, i kill lots of arabs in my life. and there is no problem with that. you told a legislators life luf, when you ...

The jury selection in retrospect you begin to wonder in the voir dire they shouldnt have been able to tease out something about these jurors as prosecutors that indicated almost a sympathy for the defendant and certainly -- >> when you heard the juror who has spoken out about talking about george this, george that, we didnt know much about trayvon martin, but george, george. i found that very uncomfortable. >> and seemed to emotionally be relating more to the defendant. >> connected to him becau...

Credibility. >> and if the jury rules out what youve gone for, its harder to come down. >> youre asking them to say ive argued a and b, reject a but embrace b. but your credibility is shot, because a, which was your more powerful argument, didnt work. remember, initially there was no charge at all. this was a murky, as powerful as the emotions are because of an innocent young man shot dead, as a legal matter it was always a tough case. they overreached a bit and that probably hurt them. the othe...

Hit him. >> so you think based on the testimony you heard, you believe that trayvon martin was the aggressor? >> i think the roles changed. i think -- i think george got in a little bit too deep, which he shouldnt have been there, but trayvon decided that he wasnt going to let him scare him and get the one over up on him or something, and i think trayvon got mad and attacked him. >> do you feel like you know for sure what happened in the altercation? and did the other jurors feel for sure that t...

A number of videotapes. he walked police through a re-enactment of what he said happened. how important were those videotapes to you? >> i dont really know. because, i mean, watching the tapes theres always something in the back saying, is it -- is it right? is it consistent? but with all the evidence of the phone calls and all the witnesses that he saw, i think george was pretty consistent and told the truth, basically. im sure there were some fabrications, enhancements. but i think pretty much...

That george zimmerman had a number of people who appeared in court who gave great character witness for him. and that clearly impacted on the jury. you could hear that jury last night talking about george this, george that. she felt an engagement with him on a human level. which i dont think any of them felt with trayvon martin because the -- again, i blame the prosecution for this. i blame them for many things. you know, overcharging in the first place. had they gone for manslaughter, they may ...

Carrying a gun. and he was aware of that. >> you cant say for sure whether or not trayvon martin knew that george zimmerman was carrying a gun? >> no. >> so you cant say for sure whether or not trayvon martin reached for that gun? >> right. but that doesnt make it right. i mean, it doesnt -- theres not a right or a wrong. even if he did reach for the gun, it doesnt make any difference. >> how so? >> well, because george had a right to protect himself at that point. >> so you believe that george ...

George was right there to rescue them, to help them out. and it took, you know, caring, a loving spirit, so to speak, that would help a person like that. and i think the fact that she tends to be a pet rescuer, having like multiple animals in her home, that she identified that caretaker in him, she identified herself being very much like him in their character. >> so danny, susans saying she identified with george. does that smell like bias toward zimmerman to you? >> well, ultimately, sure. i m...

Stereotypes although theyve been kicking around for years. you can look at the female aspect as theres some wisdom that females are more law enforcement friendly, so maybe the prosecution thought that. theres also the idea that a female might be more parental and might see trayvon martin as a child that shouldnt have been injured. so i dont necessarily think that the prosecution made some huge blunder putting this juror on. they may have had a good reason to think that she was an acceptable juro...