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What do you think their thinking will be over the next couple of days? >> well, the truth is that verdicts are rarely just about evidence or the law. theyre about human judgment. and both of the attorneys have to sit there and say here is my juror, ive got a nursing assistant with eight kids, ive got a safety officer, ive got a woman whose husband is a space attorney who used to carry a conceal and carry weapon but let it lapse. these are the people that we have to talk to, this is the judgment ...

Constitutional, they have oversight and they are necessary. martha, weve had 50-plus islamists-based terrorist plots in the united states since 9/11. we cant forget the marathon bombers, we cant forget fort hood, we are cant forget 9/11. interest seems to me in terms of boston there was a human judgment made to stop following these people. if here had not then we perhaps could have used this program to track them and prevented boston. martha: i really hope that the chairman of the the intel comm...

Investigation. what im saying here is that my recollection is that we find out about -- we dropped them, remember? we looked at them, there was a human judgment that tkhaoe sided by the f.b.i. that hes guys were no longer a threat and they dropped him. if they continued to follow him then we may have gone through their social media and phone calls, it was a human judgment issue. i agree with you. i agree with you. martha: this is precisely the kind of people that you would want to be watching, y...

She can get that set of lungs and then change the rule. dont wait for the rules to change. lets do it to make sure she survives. beautiful little girl. its the ability for human judgment. rules are rules. we have rules and there are exceptions that could be made but i admire for working hard to figure out a way to get her story in front of them. she could be an example for other people in the future. so maybe someone you know. i think in the future some of the questions are going to be heart-w...

And you try and allocate the money to the most seriously injured or lives lost. >> how do you play god with all due respect and decide what is the value of an 8-year-old martin richards future life to his family and the lots that they have suffered? >> you cant do that. the best you can do is try to exercise some sound human judgment. we have this much money. in the past, in aurora, 9/11, virginia tech, we, we did it this way. in newtown, theyll do it this way. and you try and build on what youv...

For jumping in. >> from women in combat to robots in combat. will the rise of the machines result in an droid marines. a human rights watch report called for a ban on killer robots which they maintained could be fully operational and ready to terminate in 20 years. the pentagon has made clear that man and not machine will always hold the trigger. the deputy defense secretary signed a policy directive that states that the semiautonomous weapon systems must be designed for proper machine interface...

the french philosopher who was responsible for getting france and perhaps the world to intervene there. hes just back from tripoli. then as another baseball season comes to a close in america, we sit down with michael lewis, the author of "moneyball," to talk about baseball and its lessons for business and life. but first, heres my take. regular "gps" watchers will know that i was in tehran last week to interview president mahmoud ahmadinejad. you can go to our website and watch exc...

the fills on forresponsible for getting france and perhaps the world to intervene there. hes just back from tripoli. then as another baseball season comes to a close in america, we sit down with michael lewis, the author of "moneyball," to talk about baseball and its lessons for business and life. first, heres my take. regular "gps" watchers will know that i was in tehran last week to interview president mahmoud ahmadinejad. you can go to our web site and watch excerpts of the inte...

The other side of the coin, technology can be used to prevent that from happening in the first place, if people -- if people are focused on it. >> reporter: one georgetown professor said thursdays meltdown was just a preview and that the system is dangerously unprotected. >> where does human judgment come in? well, where i think it needs to come this is what we need to have is an awt mated system in place that when markets get chaotic, we immediately have an instantaneous trading halt in compute...

Like ak searcher to get a better handle what was happening. roughly 60% of the stocks that trade here also trade on other exchanges. and when the nyse went into slow motion mode, trading was able to continue on other electronic exchanges, and that includes obriens exchange. he says if theres going to be a time-out it has to be system wide and not just on one exchange. he says technology isnt to blame. >> it can allow things to left to get out of control cascade. the same side of the coin, techno...