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Self-obsession, self-pitying, narcissim. a line from the great gatsby. conduct may be founded on the hard rock or wet marshes but at a certain point i dont care where it was found. i didnt care about his problems. i didnt want to listen to him. i guess it was a public service to broadcast it but i found it unpleasant in the extreme -- >> mark, were you surprised he was allowed to talk as long as he did in that courtroom? >> could i just weigh in here for my prospective -- >> sure. >> im not an a...

That will save the taxpayers a lot more money than the death penalty case would. >> the taxpayers, though, danny savlas, theyre going to have to take care of this guy for the rest of his life. hes still in his mid-50s. presumably hes got several decades left. >> yeah. if these taxpayers were offended or shocked at ariel castros statements today, well, let me tell you, welcome to the world of criminal defense. any criminal defense attorney will tell you that the prisons are full of people who bel...

Amazing that the human mind can do this. that we know how to build this. you know, no astronaut has ever been there yet in a sense now every single one of us has been there, forget about mars. were going to saturn now. >> that incredible. weve all gone on saturn. they actually did a campaign, caroline, the researcher who created this image, she ran an internet campaign to get everybody on it to wave when they took the picture. about 20,000 people around the world, on that little dot are waving s...

And we are back with malcolm gladwell, who wants college students to start boycotting football games. how can institutions of higher learning devoted to the building up of the human mind be at the same time encouraging a sport that we now know, he says, destroys the human brain. you gave a speech at the university of pennsylvania thats become a kind of youtube sensation. >> what level of proof do we need -- >> what did you say in that speech? >> well, i was invited to give this talk to the under...

Photographs taken that night. it was wet. we have dark lighting conditions. for lack of a better term and otherwise, isolated area. dark behind buildings. okay? wet conditions, which, you know, wet conditions can -- you got rain, youve got ground water, slippery environment. and then youve got, like i already said, the isolation of the individuals in the dark. those are all variables that have to come into play because they play on the human mind during an event. >> one point i want to make conc...

Determination. do you believe trayvons parents or george zimmermans witnesses. >> joey jackson, if the foundation of that analyst was to lay some ground work for trayvon martins mother to take the stand and say thats my baby screaming for his life. then why wouldnt the defense use the same tactic and get mrs. zimmerman on the stand to say thats my george screaming for his life? >> you better believe they will. in an ideal world what did we know. we know the state wanted to call an expert to say ...

Complicated. looking at the human mind. >> opening statements on monday. >> we will obviously be talking to you then. and a private company has been caught fudging background checks for hundreds of government workers. this may be a story that falls in the category of shocking, not surprising. including former nsa contractor edward snowden. many of the employees in question, including snowden, had access to national security intelligence. a senate hearing was held to determine how does widespre...

Cannot sympathize with a black teen ager. i reject that notion. i think that regardless of race, these jurors will be able to listen to the evidence and go back into that jury room and in a collaborative way come up with a verdict. >> i agree with that as well. in the end, they element but i do think theyre going to work, the defense is going to work this idea that the white jurors are going to say, wow, he had a hoodie on, he was dressed like a gangster, zimmerman must have been afraid. they wi...

Means. i dont see him as a hero in my view point. >> i think to your point, the fact that he ran, if he hadnt run, that kind of undercuts the whistleblower accusation. you would want to stand on principle, you would want to go to jail, dont want to be serviced in a swanky hotel in china. >> i might actually. >> dont forget, theres a fourth amendment says unlawful, unreasonable search and seizure, this would certainly in my opinion fall under excessive search and seizure. >> but is anybody saying...

Issue, parents who have children and/or people who need help and they know they need some help are often unable to get it because its either not affordable or not available to them, and there is a probability that some of the god-awful things weve seen could be avoided. jo goldie, dont you think that mental health is actually as critical to the fixing of gun violence as anything that we might do with regard to assault weapon bans or, indeed, controlling or reducing the number in a magazine clip?...