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Immigranting illegally are often used as drug mules. this comes the same week as the house judiciary committee holding a hearing about ways to find a path toward citizenship for illegal immigrants brought in as children. joining us now to talk more about this, congressman steven king. nice to have you here. talk to me about your choice of words there. many people are upset by the way that you used the language to describe these children, drug mules? >> well, we should remember that i said, my he...

Women, i said watch out for the fact that there are five moms on this jury. sure enough, the prosecutor honed in his rebuttal on the child in the dark being followed by a stranger. >> right. >> tugging on their heart strings. >> the judge didnt allow for that child abuse in a murder charge. courtney, having said that, do you think that the defense felt that maybe all of these women, you know, would not be inclined to render a verdict as significant and as tough and as long lastin lasting as a ve...

Their head could at least start, set the early tone of the deliberations? >> i do. i think its a great question, john. what i think it is is the words of john guy the prosecutor said on his hands, blood on his hands. they will remember that. they will remember the autopsy photos of trayvon martin, that lifeless body laying there on the grass. i think theyre going to remember the prosecutor when he says that trayvon martin was walking home and that it was a childs worst fear. i think its importan...

The end, this case is not about standing your ground. its about staying in your car like he was taught to do, like he was supposed to do. >> gregg: that is sort of fudges the law quite a bit? >> quite a bit. the reason you see the prosecution doing that, they are good lawyers but the reason in pounding home the emotional this tears at your heart strings, trayvon was never a cardboard character they have to depend on the jury making a emotional decision in case. if they follow the law they will r...

Onowicz. we were just listening to the clip of the prosecutor. what was not in the statement was, i have proved to you we know what happened that night. stacy, lets start with that. the prosecutor here to me sounds a lot like a defense attorney, kind of spreading doubt about what zimmerman said as opposed to making his own case. you tell me how did it play? >> well, listen, there were brilliant points made on both sides but as a prosecutor you do want to stand up and say i have proven every elem...

Go free? how did that play as the final punctuation mark on this trial. >> i think it played well. there is no question this is an emotion case. whether you have a 17-year-old boy unarmed and killed, it tears at your heart strings. i have mentioned it before, my mother, unfortunately lost two sons. i know its very, very difficult to get past losing a child. so, the jury, especially of all women but any jury would sympathize with this. so the prosecution is pounding the emotional side of this cas...

The reality is they are not allowed to make a decision purely based on emotion. they have to base it on the evidence, but were human beings and not im pufg use to this. your emotions and heart strings are being tugged at in a way that might affect the decisions making. do i trust george zimmerman was doing what he said? that emotional tug at our hearts may play into that. as judge hatchet said, only two people know what happened, zimmerman and trayvon -- >> you dont have to use george zimmermans...

Should sit back and raise your hand and tell me, are you nuts? how dare you tell me to leave sympathy out of my life and leave my emotions aside? how dare you? i dont do that ever in my life. welcome to a criminal courtroom because unfortunately you have to be better than your presumptions. >> the prosecution clearly tried to tug at heart strings referring repeatedly to trayvon martin as a child. >> was that child not in fear when he was running from that defendant? isnt that every childs worst ...

With. >> absolutely. thats just what a defense always worries about is john guy will come in here with an emotional pitch, tug at the heart strings and the jury will decide this on emotion and rather than the law. i think omara did a good job but he was monotonous as bernie screeching. john guy did this in an emotional way. there probably is a reasonable doubt in this case even as to manslaughter but nevertheless these are moms. the image of the child being followed in the dark was a specific pi...

17-year-old boy. that in itself, if im a juror has got to be hugely significant regard less of anything else. >> thats absolutely true. the reality is they are not allowed to make a decision purely based on emotion. they have to base it on the evidence, but were human beings and not im pufg use to this. your emotions and heart strings are being tugged at in a way that might affect the decisions making. do i trust george zimmerman was doing what he said? that emotional tug at our hearts may play ...